August 2026 | Inside This Issue

A Closer Look at Deductibility of Charitable Gifts After OBBBA

Online Wills: New Opportunities for Planned Giving Fundraisers

Eight Reasons to Have a Planned Giving Recognition Society

Responding to Donors Who Respond

Sharpe Insights Lagniappe: Eating by Generation

Editor’s Note:

If August were an ice cream flavor, it would be vanilla. Not vanilla bean or French vanilla—just plain old vanilla. It’s a month that flies under the radar; it’s what the kids today call “basic.” It’s not summer anymore because most schools are back in session. It’s way too hot to be considered “pre-Fall,” (despite the influx of Halloween decor and pumpkin spice everything starting to fill the store shelves).

Those of us in planned giving know there’s something special about August: It’s National Make-A-Will Month. Isn’t it fitting that our most “basic” month celebrates and promotes the most basic element of a well-thought-out estate plan?.

—Ashley McHugh, Editor

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