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nonprofit capital campaign donors discussing legacy giving and planned gifts

What Role Does Legacy Giving Play in Capital Campaigns?

Today’s donors have embraced a diverse variety of giving methods, and many nonprofits are racing to catch up. Non-cash gifts of assets like stock and grants from donor-advised...

Amplify Your Planned Giving Potential: Unlocking Top-Tier Results Through Strategic Partnerships

Organizations are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance their planned giving strategies. Collaboration allows collective expertise to help deliver exceptional results....

Unlock Major Giving Opportunities: 4 Prospect Research Tips

In this guide, we’ll walk through four tips for effective prospect research to help your organization build a major giving program or strengthen its existing one....

4 Ways Your Website Can Support Your Legacy Giving Program

In this blog post, we will walk through four essential ways your website can strengthen your legacy giving program, helping you connect with donors and inspire long-term commitment...

Fostering Planned Giving: 5 Expert Tips for Nonprofits

Growing your nonprofit’s planned giving program is one of the most effective ways to scale your organization and set yourself up for long-term success. Planned giving (also called...

Planned Giving 201: Lessons Learned in Higher Education Planned Giving

With the fall academic semester underway, the Giving Docs team is helping a wide array of planned giving teams at colleges and universities. Since so many of our...

Increasing Planned Giving Through DEI: A Conversation with Lillie Nkenchor and Dien Yuen

How can a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) increase planned giving? For a fresh take on this question, Giving Docs Chief Development Officer, Jade Bristol, recently...

Quantifying the Value of a Planned Gift “Handraiser”

Over the last ten years, with an increase in survey marketing and online estate planning, we have seen a corresponding increase in what we can best define as...

An “A-Ha” Moment About DEI in Planned Giving

As I scanned the room for a place to sit, I was struck by the obvious and overwhelming demographic of the room — probably ninety percent of the...

On Luck and Gratitude

There is a behavioral science testing tool called a “luck activation.” It goes like this: a test subject is asked to consider how luck has impacted their life....