Webinars

Kara Morin and Jeff Lydenberg will present a brief overview of what we’ve learned about QCDs, both outright and to fund life income gifts. They will review the essentials of these gifts, offer advice on promoting QCDs to donors, and flag some pitfalls. For example, did you know you may need to file QCD versions of your gift annuity agreements with certain states before you can issue a gift annuity funded with a QCD in any of those states? Kara and Jeff will dedicate the bulk of the webinar to answering questions from the audience about QCDs.

Wealth is not held in cash; it’s held in other assets like stocks, bonds, real estate, and IRAs. Research shows that shifting donors to giving from their wealth (assets), rather than just from their cash (disposable income) can lead to transformational donations. But how can we actually make this happen? Talking about someone else’s wealth can be scary! In this presentation, Professor James walks through the step-by-step process that makes these conversations simple, easy, and stress free. You don’t need to be a gift planning expert to inspire major gifts of assets. You just need to attend this presentation!

What’s a QCD? What’s an RMD? And how do they relate to a CGA? What is cost basis all about? And what about S-CRUTs and F-CRUTs, and all the other “flavors” of charitable remainder unitrusts? So many questions, so much confusion! In planned giving, we use a lot of acronyms, abbreviations, and other terms, with the assumption that everyone knows what we’re talking about. This webinar will go through an extensive list of the everyday terms bandied about in planned giving conversations – definitions of the terms and how they are relevant. The session should be helpful to anyone involved in planned giving conversations.

Cultivating planned gifts is an art. Successful fundraising is a disciplined process. When to “disqualify” a prospective donor is a dilemma because our inclination is to pursue additional cultivation steps that might convert the prospect into a donor. Craig Wruck will share what he’s learned in over 40 years as a gift planner and fundraising executive as he explores ways to improve productivity by ruthlessly disqualifying those who are unlikely to become donors and graciously but efficiently setting them aside in order to preserve precious time and effort for well qualified planned giving prospects.