Why Your Organization Should Participate In LEAVE A LEGACY^®

Is your organization involved with LEAVE A LEGACY^®? If not, you will no doubt want to be! And here is why ...

While over 70% of households nationwide contribute to charity each year (Nonprofit Times), less than 6% are planning a charitable bequest (Planned Giving in the United States, a Survey of Donors, NCPG, 1992). It is estimated that older Americans will transfer $40-$100 trillion of net worth to the next generation by the year 2040 - the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history.

If you're like every other nonprofit organization in the country, you are faced with a serious dilemma. The fact is that you will never have enough money to hire enough staff, to see enough people face-to-face, or to cultivate the number and amount of planned gifts you need to endow your mission into the future.

Through the Planned Giving Council of Greater Philadelphia, LEAVE A LEGACY^® of Greater Philadelphia is offering partnerships to nonprofit organizations so that they have the resources to implement a bequest program in their organization. By becoming a partner nonprofits will receive:

• Participation in ongoing regional training programs about how to implement a bequest program and use the LEAVE A LEGACY^® logo and materials which can help your organization.
• Initial copies of the LEAVE A LEGACY^® of Greater Philadelphia's attractive brochure are provided. Additional brochures are available at cost.
• Access to experienced planned giving professionals and speakers who will help to inspire your constituencies - board, staff, volunteers, and donors - to include your charity in their wills.
• Access to resources and a listing of your organization on the LEAVE A LEGACY^® web site. This opportunity will link your constituents and new prospects with information about how they can help to advance the good works of your organization by making a bequest.
• Inclusion in regional media campaigns highlighting inspiring stories about local individual donors' generosity to charities that will encourage more donors to make bequests.
• A packet of information providing you with samples of drop-in ads, a glossary of planned giving and estate planning terms, important resource information contacts, LEAVE A LEGACY^® logo usage guidelines and important web site resources.

Participation in the LEAVE A LEGACY^® program is a member benefit of the Planned Giving Council of Greater Philadelphia.