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Gifts of real estate involve complex documentation, professional coordination, and significant risk exposure. By engaging experienced specialists rather than managing real estate donations internally, nonprofits improve efficiency, reduce liability, and protect long-term financial stability.
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Restricted charitable bequests require structured review, legal oversight, and mission alignment analysis. By enforcing strong gift acceptance policies and addressing conditions during cultivation, nonprofits can accept estate gifts strategically while protecting long-term institutional integrity.
Here’s a list of 31 sample questions you can adapt to your own interviews with donors. Remember, you need to ask a quality question to get a quality answer.
Congratulations! You secured the biggest donation of your career! Your passionate presentation aligned perfectly with the donor’s desire to do some good. But a month later, your cheesy grin has melted. Deidre hasn’t paid up.
Nostalgia marketing is effective, hot, and here to stay. Learn how non-profits can use this type of marketing to promote their giving programs.
Some board members don’t feel they have a role in fundraising, but with the right training, your board members can become vital members of your fundraising team.
Married couples – and attached people in general – make giving decisions together. A recent survey finds that giving “together” is a shared activity many couples enjoy. So why would a fundraiser forget to include the spouse in a gift request?
I visited Frank many times while I worked for the Children’s’ Museum. Each time I saw him, we sat in the kitchen, talked about the museum. Then, he would reach over and open that kitchen drawer and pull out a beautifully engraved stock certificate. I would carefully carry this gift back to the museum and turn it into a charitable gift annuity.
In our youth obsessed culture, it’s easy to forget about old people. Old people often have old things. Old furniture, old jewelry, old stuff. And… old investments.
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