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Major & Planned Giving

Accelerate investments from your top donors

Amplify the joy of giving for your biggest supporters

It’s a fundraising truism: meeting your goals relies heavily on major and planned giving support from top donors. Today’s major givers have changed. They are more strategic and discerning with their investments, so establishing effective strategies and tactics to work with these donors is crucial.

Inspiring Transformative Giving

JGA will partner with you to create a plan to accelerate major, planned, and leadership giving, rooted in your organization’s history, mission, and culture. The plan can be focused on one or more of these areas, helping you launch a new outreach program, or accelerate your existing engagement of big givers.

Key questions we will consider include:

  • Have you defined a major gift for your organization, in both size and impact?
  • Do you use a focused prospect management system and are you using it well?
  • Does planned giving outreach work alongside your major giving program, and do donors feel an opportunity to leave a legacy?
  • Are the resources, budgets, staff, and volunteers aligned to meet your goals?
  • How do you measure success, both for your team and your mission?
 
We’ll also help you identify audiences for major and planned giving and determine the best strategies for engaging them. After the plan is created, JGA will provide coaching for board, staff, and volunteers to ensure you get the most from your investment.
 

Our goal is to provide you a clear roadmap to thoughtfully cultivate your key donors, keeping your efforts organized, focused, and moving forward.

The JGA Planned Giving Tune-Up

It can be easy for planned giving to take a back seat to other fundraising priorities. Planned giving outreach is especially important now, amidst a historic wealth transfer and many donors are reaching retirement age and thinking about their legacy.

Our planned giving tune-up will help you evaluate what you’re doing now and find practical ways to strengthen your program, making it a more effective part of your overall fundraising.

The tune-up pairs you with an experienced and knowledgeable planned giving consultant, who will help you review your messaging, communications, gift acceptance policies, and outreach strategy to make planned giving an integrated, natural part of your fundraising plan. This includes exploring strategic giving options across estate, charitable annuities, retirement account distributions, and other methods that are growing in popularity with donors.

Major & Planned Giving

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