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Joe Garecht has joined the Center for Major Gifts as a Senior Advisor, bringing over 25 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising. Joe specializes in building fundraising systems to help organizations dramatically increase revenue. He will contribute articles, webinars, white papers, and courses, and lead the Major Gifts Boot Camp, complementing the Planned Giving Boot Camp by Jonathan Gudema. This addition enhances the organization’s planned giving services for over 5,000 charities.

Some people in our industry have made planned giving so moribund that they can put a cat on speed to sleep. Vendors included.

Companies like to boast about what they do. Apparently, many firms also like to do far more than they should. More and more in the planned giving community I see “marketing” firms promising their clients the world.

First, a Thank You For those of you who are reading this and are clients of mine, I truly thank you for your business. When I started in 1998, I did it with the goal to make planned giving accessible to your average prospect. At the time, planned giving was so bogged down with legalese and mind-numbing details that fundraisers were intimidated and donors befuddled. We’ve come a long way since then, but there’s still a shocking number of fundraisers taking