DONOR PROFILE REQUIRED READING How the Wish Book helps one family give together O VER LAST YEAR’S HOLIDAY SEASON, 10-year-old twins Ava and Julian of Sewickley were given a special reading assignment by their grandparents, Betsy and John Baun: the 2017 Pittsburgh Foundation Wish Book. Each night at bedtime, the children would sit with their mother and pore over the book, in which 75 nonprofits had listed specific “wishes” of $2,500 or less that could be fulfilled through grants from donor-advised funds. The children’s task was to recommend how to allocate $500 from their grandparents’ fund toward the wishes. As good books are apt to do, this one challenged the family to think in new ways and, ultimately, helped them clarify what they value individually and as a family. This holiday tradition started in 2015, inspired by a Forum story about another donor family whose children T H E P I T T S B U R G H F O U N D AT I O N 1 6 F O R U M