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Training Seminars

R&R Newkirk stages the nation's finest, best-known, week-long, comprehensive planned giving seminar.

Whether you're new to planned giving or an experienced fund-raiser looking for fresh ideas and a good review, this is the seminar for you. This unique week-long seminar features programs designed to increase your gift development skills. Specifically, you'll acquire technical knowledge . . . develop and practice solicitation techniques and gain the confidence you need to solicit, close and manage planned gifts. Don't miss out on this opportunity to increase your value to the charitable organization and prospects you represent. Enroll today!

Five-Day Comprehensive Planned Giving Seminar
Topics Include:

  • Latest planned gift marketing techniques
  • Basic income tax concepts in planned gifts
  • Cultivation of donors and prospects
  • Gifts of real estate
  • Charitable gift annuities
  • Workshop on life income gifts

  • Planning a unitrust or annuity trust
  • Gifts of life insurance
  • Gifts of partial interests
  • Basic concepts of gift and estate taxes
  • Estate planning in gift development
  • Charitable lead trusts
  • Gifts by business owners
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Two-Day Practical Skills for Planned Giving
Here’s a two-day “total immersion” training seminar for anyone who may be involved – or seeks to be involved – in planned giving. Who should attend? Planned giving officers and those who wear multiple hats, such as major gift officers, directors of development, assistants, CEOs, board members or other key volunteers, and anyone wishing to build their skills and reinforce their knowledge. This program covers all the basics and includes telephone and person-to-person role playing. Enroll today!
Topics Include:
  • Introduction to planned giving opportunities
  • Identifying and understanding planned gift prospects
  • Introducing the subject of planned giving: marketing and one-on-one
  • Getting the appointment
  • Telephone and techniques workshop
  • Choosing the best assets for lifetime gifts

  • Gifts from donors’ estate plans
  • Face to face with the donor: moving the process forward
  • Gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts
  • After the prospect call: followup and organization
  • Case studies and exercises in gift planning
  • Working with professional advisors
  • Where do you go from here?
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Five-Day Dates and Locations

St. Petersburg Beach, FL
January 12-16, 2009
Don CeSar ($189/night)


Chicago, IL
June 15-19, 2009
Avenue hotel Chicago ($219/night King)
Price:
$995: Includes four-volume Charitable Giving Tax Service on CD-ROM, optional pre-seminar study course, 300-page course outline, receptions and two luncheons.
$850: Each additional registrant from your organization. ($150 deposit required per enrollee.)
(Hotel not included.)
Presenters:
Marc Carmichael
Marc Carmichael, J.D.
President
R&R Newkirk Company
Laura Hansen
Laura Hansen Dean, J.D.
Executive Director of Gift Planning
University of Texas at Austin



Two-Day Dates and Locations
Chicago, IL
October 9-10, 2008
Avenue hotel Chicago ($229/night)
Chicago, IL
October 1-2, 2009
Avenue hotel Chicago ($229/night King)
Price:
$495: Includes course outline and two luncheons.
$420: Each additional registrant from your organization.
Presenters:
J. Douglas
J. Douglas McDaniel, J.D. CFRE
Director of Special Gifts
The Salvation Army, Eastern Territory
Marc Carmichael
Marc Carmichael, J.D.
President
R&R Newkirk Company



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