Fourth generation trustee and chair of the Sunshine Foundation board, Sam Hunt, shares his thoughts and experience about generational change, the shift from funding charity to funding ambition and why philanthropy is more than just giving money.
There aren’t many Australian families that can trace their philanthropic giving across four generations. For Sam Hunt, current chair of the Sunshine Foundation, it was his great, great grandfather, the inventor and industrialist, Hugh Victor McKay (or ‘H.V.’ as he’s known within the family), who set the course for the family’s giving.