You already have the profession, now make it possible for your clients.
You already hold a professional credential and are qualified to sit across from clients who trust you with their most important financial decisions. This certification does not replace what you built. It adds a high-demand new capability: a structured discipline that determines whether your clients can create an endowment for themselves before allocating resources to charity, ensuring that lifetime financial security is established first.
Who Qualifies to Take the Exam
The Endowment Engineer Certification Exam (EECE) is a qualification process, not a general education program. It is designed exclusively for professionals who already hold one of three active credentials: Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), or Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP). Your existing expertise is the foundation this certification builds on. The program does not start from zero. It starts from where you already are and takes you into a discipline your credential does not yet cover.
What changes in your career
Before the Endowment Engineer Certification Exam (EECE), the most you could offer a philanthropically motivated client was a path toward giving. After the Endowment Engineer Certification Exam (EECE), you offer something fundamentally different: a path toward financial engineering that produces personal security and charitable legacy as a single, integrated outcome. Your conversations with high-net-worth clients change. When a client hesitates to commit to a significant charitable strategy because they are uncertain about their own financial future, you no longer navigate that hesitation carefully. You resolve it structurally. You show them how the same strategy that funds their personal endowment also builds their charitable one, using provisions of the tax code that have existed since 1969 and that most advisors have never been trained to use as a design tool. You stop referring out philanthropic planning conversations and start leading them. You bring a formal Blueprint to the advisory table, one that your client’s attorney, Real Estate Broker, and financial planner can all work from. You function as the lead strategist in a coordinated, interdisciplinary team rather than as one professional in one lane.
Meet Your Instructor
Professor Lesley Winston, known as Professor Les, is the Founder and Chairman of the Endow America Network Foundation, President of the Society of Endowment Engineers, and Lead Instructor at Discovery 664 Academy. The originating mind behind the Theory of Social Secharity, Professor Les spent more than four decades developing a structured framework that trains financial professionals to build personal financial security and charitable impact simultaneously through IRC Section 664. As Founder of the Endow America Network Foundation, a 501(c)(3) national community foundation, he built the institution through which the Theory of Social Secharity is taught and advanced. As President of the Society of Endowment Engineers, he established the professional standards that define Endowment Engineering as a recognized discipline.
Endow America Network Foundation
A 501(c)(3) national community foundation operating under the Internal Revenue Code of the United States, serving as the governing institution of the Discovery 664 Academy ecosystem and the issuing authority of the Endowment Engineering Professional Certification.
Discovery 664 Academy The educational Platform
The official educational platform of the Endow America Network Foundation, offering structured training in the Theory of Social Secharity from foundational courses for the general public through advanced professional certifications for credentialed financial practitioners.
Society of Endowment Engineers
The professional standards organization for Endowment Engineers, establishing the ethical framework, collegial community, and body of knowledge that define the discipline, and awarding the Diploma of Endowment Engineer upon membership acceptance and Code of Ethics commitment.
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