Nashville universities receive record-breaking gifts Two institutions of higher learning in Nashville, Tennessee, received impressive gifts at the close of 1998. Vanderbilt University announced a $300 million stock gift in December. This gift is reported to be the largest gift ever to an educational institution. The donor, Martha Ingram, is chairman of Ingram Industries of …Read More

In this month’s “Gift Planner Profile” Give & Take talks with Lindsay Lapole, territorial planned giving director of the Southern Territory for the Salvation Army. After nearly 27 years working in the nonprofit world, Mr. Lapole shares some of his views about planned giving and the gift planning process. Give & Take: How did you …Read More