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The 2024 DAF Giving Summit Recap

Did you miss out on attending the 2024 DAF Giving Summit? Or, did you attend but still have burning questions that weren’t answered during session Q&A? Join us for a special recap webinar where we bring the summit experience to your screen and condense the best of what our attendees and speakers learned.

Lucas Cherry
Amy Fair
John Kim
Rick Peck
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Future of Wealth Transfer: Strategies for Engaging Women and Next-Gen Donors

Join Dr. Sara Konath and Milan Ball for an insightful discussion on the Great Wealth Transfer. This session is focused on equipping advisors and DAF managers with effective strategies to address the unique needs of women and next-generation donors. Learn practical approaches to building relationships, understanding donor motivations, and creating impactful giving experiences.

Dr. Sara Konrath
Milan Ball
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Maximizing Impact: Using Catalytic Philanthropy and Impact-First Investment to Drive Social and Environmental Solutions

Effective philanthropists, foundations and family offices are discovering catalytic philanthropy, recoverable grants and impact-first investing as tools to accelerate the advancement of promising social and environmental solutions. Join Social Finance leaders for an overview of how leading asset allocators are using these tools to drive impact within their philanthropic portfolios.

Jess Brooks
Mike Silvestri
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DAFs Impact for Fundraisers: Insights from FreeWill’s 2024 Donor-Advised Fund Report

As we witness the continual rise of a new kind of giving for donors and nonprofits, the potential of donor-advised funds (DAFs) for charities is more promising than ever.

FreeWill surveyed more than 500 nonprofit professionals to gain a comprehensive understanding of donor-advised funds’ impacts on the philanthropic landscape. In this exclusive DAF Giving Summit webinar, Patrick Schmitt, CEO of FreeWill, will share an inside look at the emerging trends they discovered in their research.

Patrick Schmitt
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Decoding DAFs: Key Findings from the 2024 National Study on Donor-Advised Funds

The Donor Advised Fund Research Collaborative (DAFRC) recently released the most extensive, comprehensive study on DAFs to date, encompassing nine years of data on more than 50,000 accounts from 111 DAF programs covering succession plans, donor demographics, contributions, payout rates, grant-making speed and more.

Join us to hear Dan Heist and Danielle Vance-McMullen share key findings from the report and answer some of your most pressing questions about DAFs based on their most recent research. You’ll gain valuable knowledge on DAF demographics, trends, and the evolving landscape of philanthropy.

Danielle Vance-McMullen
Dan Heist
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Navigating passion assets and real estate donations: Uncover expert strategies

Take a deep dive into the topics of passion assets and real estate donations. Gain insight into how to choose strategies, such as charitable donations, how to dispose of them, and ways to find experts who provide market and valuation information as gifts are prepared. Our presenters will also reveal the gap between how much Americans have in real estate wealth as well as wealth in the form of passion assets such as art, jewelry, cars and collectibles and the gifts that are donated in the form of these alternative assets. The presenters will discuss how these alternative assets can become part of a donor’s philanthropic strategy.

Rick Peck
Colleen Boyle
Bruce Geiss
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