Practical Guide to Planned Giving, 1999


Book Description

According to American Benefactor, the parents of today's baby boomers are expected to leave behind an inheritance of no less than $10 trillion.As this generation matures, they'll need your help in understanding the benefits of charitable contribution. Practical Guide to Planned Giving presents the finer points of a planned giving program's marketing and management efforts. Use it to decipher the confusing legal, tax and marketing problems that often arise when soliciting a planned gift. The Guide offers strategic marketing advice that will make your planned giving program a winner.To maximize tax benefits for your donors, you need the kind of current, accurate information supplied by this valuable reference. Fully updated with the most recent information and advice, Practical Guide to Planned Giving provides you with the following: -- Extensive information on the nuts and bolts of marketing and running a planned giving program -- from creating and budgeting a successful program to winning board approval -- Detailed chapters devoted to the principal planned giving options -- revocable gifts, irrevocable trust gifts, irrevocable non-trust gifts -- with clear explanations of the advantages and disadvantages of each gift option for donors and recipients -- Timely, essential information that is updated annually to reflect the changes in tax laws -- Useful chapters on establishing and running a planned giving program for the small one person development office
















The Ultimate Quick Reference Planned Giving Pocket Guide


Book Description

This is the insiders' guide to what planned gifts can do for donors and for your non-profit organization. This is not another ways-to-give brochure.Keep it open beside you the next time you phone a potential donor who has requested gift information. Carry it on your next road trip. It will keep you up to speed on what gift plans work for which prospects, so you'll be ready to move to Plan B if your first recommendation doesn't fly.Each gift description features a helpful visual illustration, a quick summary, and a straightforward discussion of the most important benefits and challenges. And each description comes with its own elevator pitch!Our goal with this publication is to make the relationship among planned gifts clear and accessible. Outright? Estate plan? Life income? Each has its benefits and challenges--and your job is to find the one that best matches your donor's objectives while helping your organization address its priorities. Whether you're a volunteer or professional fundraiser, this Pocket Guide delivers fast facts and insightful overviews to help you close more and larger gifts faster.The perfect companion for those who work with philanthropists who believe deeply in supporting charity through their estate and other creative ways.