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Tax Guide for Churches and Religious Organizations

The IRS has released revised Publication 1828, Tax Guide for Tax Guide For Churches and Religious Organizations - benefits and responsibilities under the federal tax law.

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Investment Informational Call - Recording

Thank you to everyone who joined us May 3, 2010 for a conversation with our investment advisor, Cambridge Associates. If you were unable to join the call, a recording of the call is now available. more... |

Balancing Acts - 2009 LCF Annual Report

Keeping our balance would be so much easier if the world would just stop changing. But it’s the constant challenges that life keeps tossing our way that lead us to develop the skills that make balance possible.
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Custom Web Page to Promote Gifts to Your Endowment

Link from your organization's website to a web page promoting planned gifts to support your endowment fund at the LCF.  Request your custom page here. more... |
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Building Endowment with Planned Gifts Webinar

PGCalc will offer a 90-minute interactive Webinar on "Building Endowment with Planned Gifts," Thursday, December 17th at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. more... |
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Endowment Fundraising Webinar - Dec. 17th

The next ALDE webinar, "Endowment Fundraising ... OR How to Raise It When You're Not Going to Spend It," will be held Thursday, December 17, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Central Time.  The presentation will be given by Jill Pranger, ACFRE. more... |
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Increasing Bequests to Your Organization Through Effective Marketing

PG Calc offers this feature article on marketing bequests in their October 2009 newsletter.

http://www.pgcalc.com/about/featuredarticleoct09.htm

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Why Now is the Time to Transition Annual Givers to Planned Giving

In this report, Larry Stelter, president and CEO of The Stelter Company, recommends actions based on findings from a new national survey:

 After evaluating the results of our study on the characteristics and motivations of planned givers, we concluded that time and money can be well spent transitioning annual givers into bequest givers, and now is the perfect time to do that."

 

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Bequest Tool Kit

The LCF Bequest Tool Kit is designed to help you grow these planned gifts. It includes sample bequest language, sample letters to potential donors, sample newsletter articles, follow-up postcards and more.  more... |
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Recording of Conference Call on Investments

Thank you to those who were able to join the recent conference call on the current economic climate and our investment strategy

An audio recording of the Q & A with our investment advisor, Cambridge Associates, is available by clicking on the link below:

Recording of May 4, 2009 Conference Call with Cambridge Associates (mp3)

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