Paul G. Schervish is special advisor for Ekstrom & Associates. Dr. Schervish is professor of sociology and director of the Social Welfare Research Institute (SWRI) at Boston College. Schervish directed the Study on Wealth and Philanthropy, an examination of the strategies of living and giving among 130 millionaires, and the study, "The Contradictions of Christmas: Troubles and Traditions in Culture, Home and Heart." Along with John J. Havens, Associate Director of SWRI, he is currently directing “Dilemmas and Decisions Surrounding the Accumulation and Distribution of Financial Resources” funded by the T.B. Murphy Foundation Charitable Trust, and “The Emerging Material and Spiritual Determinants of Charitable Giving by Wealth Holders,” funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Schervish and Havens also worked with Bankers Trust Private Banking on their "Survey on Wealth with Responsibility", a study of 112 individuals with net worth in excess of $5 million regarding their charitable giving and volunteering, attitudes about social issues, socially responsible investing, trust and estate planning, and the transfer of values to heirs. Along with John Havens, he released the report, "Millionaires and the Millennium: New Estimates of the Forthcoming Wealth Transfer and the Prospects for a Golden Age of Philanthropy," which estimates the wealth transfer over the next half-century to be between $41 trillion and $136 trillion. Schervish recently completed The 2001 High-Tech Donors Study which interviewed high-tech wealth holders about their philanthropic attitudes and practices.
Schervish was named to the NonProfit Times "Power and Influence Top 50" major movers and shakers in philanthropy. Paul has published in the areas of philanthropy, the sociology of money, the sociology of wealth, labor markets, unemployment, biographical narrative and sociology of religion. He is completing work on The Modern Medici: Strategies of Philanthropy among the Wealthy (Jossey-Bass). Schervish also serves regularly as a speaker and consultant on how to surface and analyze the moral biographies of wealth holders, on the motivations for charitable giving, on the demographic patterns of wealth and charitable giving, and on the spirituality of financial life.
Schervish holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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