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The following Endowment Fund Roundtable posts contain links to marketing ideas for organizational endowments.
LCF Endowment Funds

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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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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New Research Sheds Light on Bequest Giving

In a report from the Association of Fundraising Professionals confernece this spring, Paula Wasley lays out the details of three new studies that offer insights into which donors are most likely to remember charities in their wills, and why for The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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Information Sheet - Giving to Your Endowment

Download this handy sheet to help promote planned giving to your endowment fund, or request copies to be sent to you. more... |
LCF Endowment Funds

Newsletter / Bulletin Insert Copy - IRA Rollover

Promote giving to your endowment with an article in your next newsletter, or with a bulletin insert explaining the IRA Rollover opportunity. more... |
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National Survey Reveals Lucrative, Untapped Group of Bequest Prospects

Recently, The Stelter Company combined forces with the nationally renowned research firm Selzer & Company Inc. to provide groundbreaking research into who names charities in their wills, when and why. Their discovery? The audience that most gift planners target today may represent only the tip of the iceberg.
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LCF Endowment Funds

Bailout Package includes Extension of IRA Rollover Provision

As you are most likely aware, the President signed the historic $700 billion economic bailout plan Friday, October 3, 2008.  While the primary purpose of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was to authorize government purchase of mortgaged-backed securities, the Act also contains some incentives for charitable giving. From a gift-planning perspective, the most important was the extension of the IRA charitable rollover, which was first included in the 2006 Pension Protection Act and expired at the end of 2007.  The rollover has now been extended through the end of 2009.

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