Newsletter/Blog Posts

Maximizing Professional Advisor Relationships: Fundraiser Friend or Foe

September 11, 2024

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…

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

August 8, 2024
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…

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

June 25, 2024
Asian woman studying a computer screen which is producing lines of AI generated text. A ChatBot similar to A.I.

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…

Timeshares:  The Black Hole of Charitable Giving

June 4, 2024
CLOSE UP OF KEY AND HOUSE KEYCHAIN ​​IN HIGH SECURITY DOOR LOCK.

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…

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

May 3, 2024

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…

Crypto is Backo: Charitable Planning with Outright Gifts, DAFs and CGAs/CRTs

April 3, 2024
photo of gold bit coin

Spring (and crypto) has officially sprung!  We always try to be timely, so with Bitcoin recently crossing a record $70K/token (and a lot of other…

DEBT:  The Four Letter Word of Noncash Transactions

March 12, 2024
Hands over a plant growing from a pile of coins

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…

New & Improved with 10% More:  An Overview of Our Charitable Gifts of Noncash Assets Book 3rd Edition

February 9, 2024

You asked for an upgraded sugar-free and gluten-free noncash asset resource and we have answered the call.  I know what you are thinking: “Why couldn’t…

One Shoe Dropping: IRS is Finally Stepping into the Donor Advised Fund Space

January 15, 2024

After 17 years of near silence, IRS has finally begun to issue proposed regulations interpreting and implementing legislation enacted in 2006 to “improve accountability” of donor advised…

Slippery Slopes: Should Donor Advised Funds Grant To or Receive Contributions From Hate/Discriminatory/Mission-Antithetical Groups?

November 10, 2023

If you don’t operate a donor advised fund, the answer is a millisecond, “Of course not!”  If you do operate a donor advised fund, these…

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