Maximizing Impact & Minimizing Taxes
Join the first event as part of a year-round Recipes for Good educational series! During this online event, learn how to maximize your charitable tax deductions and the reasons why millions of people leverage donor advised funds for their charitable giving.
Whether you've supported nonprofits for decades, are interested in more strategic giving, or are taking the first steps on your philanthropic journey, please join us to hear directly from subject matter experts.
Event Time: May 13, 2025 from 12:30PM to 1:30PM EDT
Location: This event will take place via Zoom. The link to attend will be shared with registered guests prior to the event.
Community Servings' Recipes for Good is a series of year-round educational opportunities that explain various methods for crafting a legacy through strategic, tax-conscious philanthropy. Through expert-led workshops, presentations, and specialized resources, learn about various methods that present mutually beneficial outcomes from your charitable support.
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PRESENTERS
Richard Band
Partner, Goldfarb, Band & Co
Rich Band has been a CPA for more than forty years specializing in tax and accounting services for high net worth individuals and closely held businesses. Rich has been a partner in Goldfarb, Band & Co since 1988 and they have been located at 111 Speen Street, Framingham since that time. Rich received his Bachelors of Business Administration from UMass Amherst in 1975 (now the Eisenberg School of Management), and received his Masters in Accounting from Bentley College in 1983 (now Bentley University).
Rich has been very involved in the local community and has been past Treasurer multiple times of the North Suburban JCC, Temple Ner Tamid of Peabody, and the Holocaust Center - Boston North. Rich has also been very involved in the Dana Farber Cancer Institute where he has just completed his 420th platelet donation (and highly encourages others to donate also).
Rich has been married to his wife Loretta for forty years and they have three grown children and six grandchildren.
Paul Magistro
Financial Consultant, Bleakley Financial
Paul has been serving clients at Bleakley Financial since 2000. Prior to joining the firm, Paul spent seven years an investment advisor at Republic National Bank.
Paul graduated from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts is Spanish. Paul also earned a Juris Doctorate from Brooklyn Law School and a Masters Business Administration from Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business. He maintains FINRA Series 7 & 63 registrations through LPL Financial and holds insurance licenses for life & health.
Paul lives in Chatham, New Jersey and retired from the US Army National Guard in 2012 after 20 years of service as an Artillery Officer. Paul is an enthusiastic New York Jets fan and is an avid tailgater. He enjoys motorcycling, spending time at the Jersey Shore and trips to Orient Beach in St. Martin.
About Community Servings
Our mission is to actively engage the community to provide medically tailored, nutritious, scratch-made meals to chronically and critically ill individuals and their families. We commit, in all our programs and business practices, to prioritize racial and economic justice and health equity.
Since our founding in 1990, we have provided more than 14 million medically tailored meals (MTMs) to our clients across Massachusetts who are living with severe critical and chronic illnesses such as HIV, cancer, diabetes, and kidney disease.