Category: Articles

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Create a Proactive Program to Sustain Your Organization, PART 2

Despite the evidence of opportunity, desire and verbal commitment, charities are failing to grow and progress their planned giving programs. It is up to us, as professionals in the field, to change this trend.

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Canadian Planned Giving Research Survey

Articles, Education Opportunities

PGgrowth is conducting research on Canadian planned giving programs. Have a few moments to participate? Take our survey and help inform the Canadian landscape of planned giving.

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Create A Planned Giving Program to Sustain Your Organization, PART 1

Articles, What’s New

Most organizations start with interest and even excitement about advancing the planned giving program. Why doesn’t it translate into action? Ed Sluga uses research and experience in the field to uncover why proactive planned giving programs are the exception rather than the rule in Canada.

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Murray Landa: Why great stewardship is Job One

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Leave A Legacy month should remind us of why we do what we do, and also the key activities we must do especially well to succeed.

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Richard Radcliffe: Trust and confidence – ‘Rolls Royce versus van’

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You could argue that we would naturally trust a Rolls Royce driver more than a van driver.

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Creating sustainable planned giving

Articles

It is recommended that a good teacher should start every new course by posing an overall question to his students that captures the essence of the course.

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Murray Landa: When silence is golden – listen your way to more gifts

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Over the years, a number of people have asked me “what should I say when I meet with a donor?”

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Murray Landa: Estate gifts of private shares

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The federal government is addressing charitable sector concerns regarding estate donation rules in an amendment to the “excepted gift” definition.

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Planned giving – Thoughtful activation of an exchange with your donors

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For years, most organizational strategic approaches to planned giving have been to invest a little and hope for a great return.

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How does an organization get to its core values?

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The values conversation is one of the most important that any Board and Senior Staff of a not-for-profit charitable organization can conduct, yet for many it is never held.

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