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Understanding Probate: A Comprehensive Guide to the Probate Process

Planned Giving

However, this essential procedure plays a critical role in ensuring that a loved one’s wishes are honored after they pass away. The church courts handled probate issues, ensuring that the deceased’s soul was cared for through proper distribution of their estate. Assets that must go through probate are known as probate assets.

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The Nonprofit’s Guide to Legacy Giving

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One way your donors can help you extend your impact is through legacy giving. Legacy giving is a committed donation a donor plans to leave to a nonprofit organization as part of their estate after they’ve passed away. Here’s a look at seven of the most common types of legacy gifts: Bequests through wills and estate plans.

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Women’s Comprehensive Guide to Estate Planning

Center for Major Gifts

This guide will take you through the essentials of estate planning, highlighting its importance, timing, and the key elements you need to consider. It, along with an advance directive and a durable power of attorney for healthcare, ensures your wishes are followed through by a designated person. Why Focus on Estate Planning for Women?

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In-Kind Donations 101: A Guide for Nonprofits

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While there are risks of accepting in-kind donations, those risks can be offset by creating firm policies and guidelines surrounding the in-kind donations your nonprofit will accept. Not all gifts are made equally, and you won’t be able to accept them all if you don’t create an in-kind donation policy. What are in-kind donations?

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Your Open House on Gifts of Real Estate

Center for Major Gifts

While these words, though seen frequently, are valid, rarely are they fulfilled more meaningfully than through a gift of real estate to the nonprofit you cherish most. Anyone can make a gift of real estate as long as the nonprofit’s gift acceptance policy allows it, and the property is in marketable condition; ideally free of debts.

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Impactful Legacy Giving Benefits for You and Your Donors

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This is completed either by setting aside a donation to be given after the donor passes away or by giving a gift during their lifetime that continues to grow following the donor’s passing. Life insurance: Donors can list your organization as a beneficiary on their life insurance policy.

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Shrinking Congregations, Smaller Donations

Planned Giving

An entire generation of older, more generous parishioners is passing. What happens when those parishioners pass away? Who’s going to pass the collection plate, much less leave something in it? The stock market looks like a roller coaster. Fewer people are in the pews, and fewer dollars are in the collection basket.