The trick is to keep things private, but widen the circle of trust to include larger organizations that participate in care, and also pay.
In 2007, the City Council, including then-President Eric Garcetti, unanimously amended the memorandum of understanding under which the trusts operate to include every bargaining unit represented by Local 18 in the work of the trusts.
Donors can customize the trust agreement to include any "incentives," i.e. strings.
While traditional paper ballot systems achieve secrecy, each voter has to trust election officials to include his ballot in the final tally.
The beneficiaries of the trust were extended to include the two youngest children as part of a restructuring which saw all six children get $100m class A non-voting shares in February 2007, with another $60m tranche in November that year.
In the brainstorming phase, trust was expanded to include the question of whether partners had each others' best interests at heart, for instance, with regard to information leakage.
"Giving the lump sum of my estate to my kids at age 18 is poor parenting," says Don. (Warning: If you might have more kids, make sure the trust is worded to include any potential offspring, too).
Most countries in the bloc would now like to extend the agreement to cover a broad range of financial products beyond savings accounts, to include trusts, foundations and investment companies outside the European Union.
This could be done by expanding the products covered, perhaps to include trusts or foundations, or by applying the law to legal entities rather than just individuals, Mr. Kovacs said.
Austria and Luxembourg also gave a conditional pledge to, by the end of the year, sign onto an expanded program of automatic data sharing that would go beyond just banks to include trusts and foundations, which are widely used by wealthy Europeans to park and often hide money.
