At the 25th Conference on Gift Annuities held this spring in Seattle, Washington, the American Council on Gift Annuities announced its recommendation for rates to take effect July 1, 2002. While there were changes to the various assumptions underlying charitable gift annuity rates, the recommended rates remain basically unchanged. The ACGA board voted not to …Read More

Most experienced fundraisers are familiar with the classic “funding pyramid,” which indicates that the majority of gift totals will typically come from a relatively small number of contributions. This tends to be true regardless of the scale of the fund development effort. It has also been well established that most charitable gifts each year come …Read More