Coming Presentations 5/18/2021 Planned Giving Council of San Antonio 6/8/2021Dallas Council of Charitable Gift Planners 7/15/2021Mid-America Council of Charitable Gift Planners (Kansas City, MO) November or December 2021 (TBD)Planned Giving Group of New England Past Presentations 2021 March 30Mid-Iowa Planned Giving…
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Celebrating Three Centuries of Special Donors who Shaped Our Universities
Dear Friends, My free webinar on January 25 may be of interest to alumni and friends of six universities and colleges affiliated with the Princeton Club of New York: Columbia University, Fordham University, Georgetown University, New York University, Princeton University,…
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Link to webinar on 1/25/21: Celebrating Bequests
Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Jan 25, 2021 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Celebrating Three Centuries of Special Donors who Shaped our Universities Please click the link below to join the webinar:…
Praise for America is a Given Place: A Digital Webinar
After watching my webinar for the Planned Giving Group of Connecticut on 11/12/20, Conrad Teitell wrote: "Friends at PGGCT, if not for Ron Brown, this history would be lost forever. I hope you’ll archive his important talk and play it…
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Sample Webinar Promo by NJ Council of Charitable Gift Planners
America is a Given PlaceA Brief History of Charitable Gift PlanningTuesday, October 6, 202010:00 AM — 11:30 AMVirtual Format - ComplimentaryWhere can you turn for knowledge of events that shape gift planning today? In this convenient new webinar you will learn…
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Who Issued the Earliest Gift Annuity: Yale or the American Bible Society?
A recent article in the New York Times* claimed that the American Bible Society issued America's first charitable gift annuity in 1843. When I pointed out to its author that in 1831, Yale issued an annuity to John Trumbull in…
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Practical Benefits from America is a Given Place
What benefits can you expect from investing an hour of your time in watching America is a Given Place? Knowing the history of charitable gift planning is quite useful, even indispensable, for people who encourage or advise donors. Here is…
CGP Helps Planners Know Their History
Where do charitable gift planners, fund raisers, trust officers, attorneys and financial advisors turn for knowledge of events that shape their work today? The National Association of Charitable Gift Planners (CGP) has made resources available at no charge. In its…
Selected Sources for America is a Given Place
Charitable bequests by Mary Chilton Winslow and other Mayflower Pilgrims (1620-1679): Caleb Johnson’s Mayflower History.com, wills of Mayflower passengers at http://mayflowerhistory.com/probate-records Rev. Thomas Bargrave bequest (1621): “Henrico and Its College” by Robert Hunt, The William and Mary Quarterly, Oct. 1938,…
Webinar Topics
1. Early American charitable bequests. There are no surviving records of charitable bequests by Native Americans before 1600. We begin with the earliest bequest documents by European immigrants. That is the best available way to understand what comes later. Bequests…
