Giving Tomorrow Magazine
The Marketing Side of Planned and Blended Gifts
Cover: Gary L. Bukowski, VP for Advancement, Sarah A. Reed Children’s Center:
Improving the Lives of Children
More: Rethinking thank you letters; powerful tools for every nonprofit; personal development …
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Exclusive, End-to-End Planned Giving Marketing for Institutional Accounts
If you are looking for a complete, integrated, customized marketing solution, PG Campaign is your choice. PG Campaign is a multi-channel solution.
Chapter and Partner Websites
If you are a national organization or foundation with nonprofit partners and chapters, Diocese or Archdiocese with member parishes, here’s your solution.
Before contacting us,
For the Small to Medium-Sized Shop
- Module 1: Market Your Program
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[The Box is also helpful to consultants who want to focus on growing their practice instead of reinventing the wheel. It gives you the time you need to manage clients instead of developing content.]
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The Planed Giving Bible: It's the definitive guide to gift planning. It covers the "why's of giving" that helps you better understand the upside and downside of different giving options for both you and your donors.
Planned Giving Websites
A planned giving website for your prospects and one for financial advisors lays the foundation for a successful marketing plan. It provides 24/7 access to your information to fulfill philanthropic aspirations.
We deliver enterprise planned giving marketing solutions for savvy donors down to simple planned giving websites for the smaller nonprofit.
Websites for Chapters and Nonprofit Partners
This solution is your answer if you are a national organization, foundation, Diocese or Archdiocese with affiliates.
eMarketing
Landing pages with digital outreach and interactive tools (calculators) get attention, build trust and convert casual browsers to active visitors.
All have marketing and legally vetted language that explain how gift plans work.
Print/Direct Mail
Fact: print marketing is far more powerful than e-marketing. So if you are planning on using e-marketing alone, don’t; balance it with print. Access a comprehensive series of gift planning tools, marketing materials and brochures* a-la-carte. Or consider our PG Campaign (a customized marketing solution) with a 12- to 36- month comprehensive marketing plan.
Complete Services Sheet [PDF] *Some available in Spanish
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LEARNING TOOLS
Assess Your Planned Giving Readiness
Assess Your Board
Tak-Tik of the Week
21 Steps to a Successful Planned Giving Program
10 Simple Tips and Strategies to Market Planned Gifts
How Giving Vehicles Work (includes videos and donor profiles for each giving vehicle)
Compare Giving Vehicles (online interactive version)
Compare Giving Vehicles (print version)
For the Very Small Nonprofit: A Planned Giving Microsite
Coming soon: Weekly Webinar Series.
The Planned Giving Bible™
The definitive guide to planned giving! Covers all relevant information you’ll ever need as a professional gift planner.
Updated yearly.
The Planned Giving Pocket Guide
A concise, desktop reference guide. Covers over 18 gift plans.
Updated yearly.
Gift Comparison Charts
Side-by-side comparison showcasing features and benefits of each gift plan. Completely branded to your organization.
Webinars and Primers
Invest in your future! Exceptional presenters, timely topics.
Internal Case to Market IRAs
Free resources to build support from your boss and your board.
Free Downloads
Conversation Starters, Donor Interview Form, Donor Characteristics Table, Sample Codicil, Year-End Solicitation Letter, and more.
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Insiders insights; each a 52-second read.
Idea Center
Sample marketing ideas with visuals.
Learn (for Newbies)
Gift Plan Videos, 21 Steps to Launch a Program, 10 Marketing Tips, and more.
Frequent Questions
How does the IRA Rollover (QCD) work? Should I accept real estate? How often to mail? What motivates a donor to give? What makes her stop giving?
How to Launch a Planned Giving Program
21 Simple steps to success.
How does your organization retain its donors? Do you stay in touch frequently, letting them know what’s happening in your quest to make the world a better place. Do you show them how their support is changing lives? Do you keep the bond you initially created with them strong? Do you send thank-you cards or postcards “just because?”
Successful major gifts officers don’t stop learning. There’s a simple reason: the skills you need for major gift work never stands still.
So, What’s In a Name? Plenty — especially when it comes to naming your legacy society. Choose the wrong name, and you’ll struggle to attract (let alone keep) members. Choose the right name, and your membership will grow and thrive.
The relationship between fundraisers and potential donors is like dating. And, just like the dating world, in fundraising, there are duds, and there are keepers. Which kind of fundraiser are you?