Consulting: Nothing Too Big or Too Small

PG Calc’s Consulting Services offers a range of options to suit your needs for assistance in operating your gift planning program. Engagements can be as a fixed-fee project, on an hourly basis, or as a monthly retainer.

Are you concerned about the profitability, processes, and operation of your gift annuity program? PG Calc can conduct a gift annuity audit, for a fixed fee, both to assess the financial health of your annuities and also to offer suggestions on strengthening your program. Perhaps you have a gift that requires expert input on how to create a complex illustration. You can engage a consultant on an hourly basis to develop a winning proposal. If you don’t have a full-time planned giving specialist on your team, you can engage a PG Calc consultant on a retainer basis in lieu of hiring a staff member.

You’ll have access to outstanding expert assistance on prospect management, program infrastructure, successful marketing, and complex gift design when you need it. Whatever your need for skilled planned giving counsel, PG Calc’s Consulting Services team stands ready to meet it and your budget.

Still Waiting . . . for the New Mortality Table

Yup, we’re still waiting for the IRS to announce the new mortality table that will replace 2000CM for computing charitable deductions for split interest gifts, such as gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts. We continue to watch closely our sources for this information and remain poised to jump into action as soon as the new table is announced. We presume that will be before the end of the year. We can’t be any more precise than that.

BatchCalcs Will Make Your Gift Annuity Mailing More Compelling

Many of our clients send a gift annuity mailing in mid to late fall to appeal to their donors and prospects when they are planning their year-end giving. If you are planning to send a gift annuity mailing this fall, consider using PG Calc’s BatchCalcs service to personalize the benefits you share with each recipient, such as their annuity rate and charitable deduction. All we need from you is a spreadsheet of birth dates or ages and a few days to do the work. We can even create a file of Summary of Benefits charts or letters with numbers, names, and addresses merged in, if you wish.

A more personal message is a more compelling message. BatchCalcs will help your gift annuity mailing generate more well-qualified prospects and more gifts.

Call Dave Wolfe at 888-497-4970 for more information.

Fall 2019 Planned Giving Conferences

Fall conference season is fast approaching and we at PG Calc are busy making sure everything will be ready. We are looking forward to seeing many of you in cities across the country in the coming months. If you’ll be at one of the conferences listed below, please stop by! We would love to chat, and we’ll have this year’s follow up to zombies and unicorns—dino poppers!

• 8/21 – Colorado Planned Giving Roundtable – Englewood, CO
• 9/24 – Northwest Planned Giving Roundtable’s 31st Annual Conference – Portland, OR
• 9/25 – Maine Planned Giving Council’s Annual Conference – Portland, ME
• 9/26 – Washington Planned Giving Council’s 2019 Planned Giving Day – Seattle, WA
• 10/2-10/4 – CGP National Conference – New Orleans, LA
• 10/22-10/24 – Minnesota Planned Giving Council’s 43rd Annual Conference – St. Paul, MN
• 10/23-10/25 – AHP Annual Conference – Washington, DC
• 10/30 – Planned Giving Council of Greater Philadelphia’s Planned Giving Conference – Philadelphia, PA

PG Calc Conference Schedule

Mystic Aquarium Closes First CGA with Help from PG Calc

Mystic Aquarium, located in Mystic, Connecticut, is ranked by USA Today as one of the five best aquariums in the US, and one of New England's top tourist destinations. In addition, the Mystic Aquarium has been nationally and internationally recognized for its outstanding work in both marine conservation and research.

Mystic Aquarium has had the beginnings of a Planned Giving Program in place, including the Kelvin Smith Legacy Society, for some time. Most recently, under the leadership of President Steve Coan, Ph.D., the Aquarium embarked on an initiative to raise $5m in charitable gift annuities to help ensure the future financial strength of the Aquarium. The Aquarium partnered with PG Calc on this Preservation Fund for the Future initiative, and with the help of PG Calc, the Aquarium was able to close its first charitable gift annuity. PG Calc is now helping the Aquarium embark on an effort to reach a wider group of friends of Mystic Aquarium.

Myles Weisenberg, Mystic Aquarium planned giving consultant and former VP, Development at Brandeis University, had this to say about PG Calc:

“With PG Calc’s help, we were able to close our first CGA ever. From the gift illustrations and gift annuity contracts generated with PG Calc’s Planned Giving Manager software, to the expert support from PG Calc’s highly regarded Client Services organization, PG Calc has helped ensure that the Aquarium is off to an excellent start in our Preservation Fund for the Future campaign. Based on this experience, we are very optimistic about our planned giving program, and we are very excited about continuing to partner with PG Calc."

Learn more about Mystic Aquarium.

Learn more about PG Calc's Planned Giving Manager.