Over the next several years, an estimated $6 trillion will pass between generations — from parents to children, and from one generation of Australians to the next. It is among the largest transfers of wealth this country has ever seen.
And the majority of it is expected to land in the hands of women.
This is not a small statistic. It is a moment that will reshape what philanthropy in Australia looks like — who gives, how they give, and what they give to. Women already give differently. Research consistently shows that women want to understand the impact of their giving, that they value collaboration and connection in how they give, and that they are far more likely than they realise to hold the values, the means, and the desire to make a meaningful difference — if only someone had asked them the right question first.
That question is not “how much can you afford to give?”
It is: How does my giving reflect who I am?
This book sits at the intersection of two things that are too rarely spoken about in the same breath: who you are, and what you do with what you have. We call that intersection your Legacy Space — the place where your values and your actions meet. For most of us, most of the time, that space goes unexamined. We make decisions — including financial ones — based on habit, convenience, or what’s expected of us, rather than what we actually care about