2026 Giving Season Summit Recap

American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research joined us at the Summit. Explore highlights from multiple sessions to help your organization enhance year-end fundraising strategies.

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What your team caught at Summit

Here are the top sessions you or your team attended

How Blended Gifts Can Become Your Very Largest Donations

Pairing a current gift with a planned one can turn a modest ask into a donor's single largest gift.

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The DAF Opportunity: Winning Donor-Advised Fund Gifts at Year-End

DAFs are one of the biggest underused channels in philanthropy — and year-end is when to unlock them.

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Just for you

A few sessions we think your team would enjoy

How to Unlock Wealth-Based Giving at Year-End

Most donor wealth sits outside checking accounts — that's the untapped opportunity nonprofits miss by asking for cash only.

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How Blended Gifts Can Become Your Very Largest Donations

Pairing a current gift with a planned one can turn a modest ask into a donor's single largest gift.

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Raise transformational gifts with FreeWill

Here's where FreeWill can help next

Based on the sessions American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research attended, we've pulled together a few ways to keep the momentum going.

FreeWill partners get a dedicated strategist and a tested year-end campaign structure, so your team isn't building the plan from scratch.

The average stock gift through FreeWill runs about $10,400, against roughly $100 for an average cash gift. Same donors, a very different number when they give a different way.

FreeWill's Auto-Stewardship acknowledges and engages your bequest donors at scale with timely, customized emails sent on your behalf, no extra work for your team.

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