The Final Stretch: Successfully Closing CRTs in 2024

Are you looking to close Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRTs) before the year ends?  Interested in learning from real-world examples and discovering practical strategies to make the most of these unique gift vehicles in the final months of 2024? This session will highlight key case studies from successful CRT gifts completed so far this year, share…

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Maximizing Professional Advisor Relationships: Fundraiser Friend or Foe

Over the shoulder profile of bespectacled female executive in early 30s sitting at conference table and laughing as she interacts with off-camera colleague.

Are you interested in working with professional advisors to increase your donor engagement or other fundraising efforts? Do you currently work with some advisors, but want to learn how to best position their expertise for your organization? Does talking to advisors intimidate you? This session will go over ways to engage or enhance your engagement…

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Bequests Gone Wild: Recent Case Studies You Can’t Make Up!

A teacher who is tied up in the middle of an unruly classroom of children

“Estate administration is a lot like a kindergarten class… if the teacher isn’t in the room, things go south quickly!” Bequests have always been the most popular form of planned gift, but many charities think they have crossed the goal line when they receive a gift notification from the Executor/Personal Representative/Trustee.  Often, that is just…

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Harnessing the Practical Power of Generative AI in Gift Planning: 2024 Updates and New Tools

Harnessing the Practical Power of Generative AI in Gift Planning: 2024 Updates and New Tools

You can’t even go on a yoga retreat these days without hearing about AI!!! Join Bryan and Paul for the first of two webinars in 2024 as we provide updates from our April 2023 session, “Revolutionizing Gift Planning with Chat GPT and Other Technologies.” This July, we will explore significant advancements in Gift Planning Artificial Intelligence and introduce new tools such…

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Timeshares:  The Black Hole of Charitable Giving

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It is hot, it is summer, so it is time to take vacations at resorts.  But maybe donors don’t want to take a summer vacation anymore… alas, what can they do? Fill in the Blank Quiz:  ChatGPT defines __________ as capturing all kinetic energy when a particle passes beyond the event horizon, but quantum theory suggests…

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Donating Commercial Real Estate:  Trends, Tricks, Traps and Travel Edit

Some of the most charitably-inclined people nationally are real estate investors.  They are often deeply involved in their local community and tend to be very place-based (think farmers/developers/apartment owners).  But they usually fund their charitable interests using cash – omg… the humanity!!!!!! This session covers: The various types of commercial real estate Some of the trends/tricks we are seeing in…

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DEBT:  The Four Letter Word of Noncash Transactions

I would rather hear ANY four letter word than D.E.B.T. when discussing a noncash transaction.  And a little known fact, Aretha Franklin’s original song line wasn’t “R.E.S.P.E.C.T… find out what it means to me”…. it was “D.E.B.T…. find out how unrelated business income tax and bargain sales will impact me.”  I think she should have…

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