Gift Planning

Real Estate

Do you know what to do if someone wants to make a gift of real estate to your organization? Check out the GPFG to learn more about this great opportunity for many donors and nonprofits.

Gift Vehicles

Understanding the ins and outs of the gift vehicles available to you and your donors is incredibly valuable to your work as a gift officer.

Why? Well, one big reason is taxes: A gift that's made by transferring an asset other than cash generally has a greater tax benefit for the donor.

Gift Administration

The process of accepting any noncash gift involves a number of details and support functions. 

Educating yourself and acquiring new skills is essential to positioning yourself and your organization for success. 

The pages in this section are arranged according to the following topics:

1. Be Professional

Our industry has made significant progress in the past few years to expand learning opportunities thorugh many sources, including:  

Business: Partnerships

In the beginning: A partnership is formed when two or more people start an unincorporated, for-profit business and all individuals involved are part owners.

A partnership is very straightforward to create. Some general features:

  1. All partners manage equally
  2. All partners are equally liable
  3. There is very little liability protection

But those are just the general terms. There are multiple subsets of partnership type.

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