Your summit recap

Bridges to Independence summit highlights

Bridges to Independence joined us at the Summit. Discover insights from the sessions attended and how your organization can leverage these strategies for greater impact.

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What your team caught at Summit

Here are the top sessions you or your team attended

4 Steps to Reverse the Small-Dollar Donor Decline

Retention beats acquisition — re-engaging donors before they drift away is the real fix for the small-dollar decline.

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Crystallize Your Impact Story Before Year-End

Donors give because they believe they can make a difference — your story has to prove that belief is well placed.

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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 Bridges to Independence attended, we've pulled together a few ways to keep the momentum going.

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.

A FreeWill Featureship puts your nonprofit in front of thousands of people making a will each month — a direct way to reach donors you haven't met yet.

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.

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What's worked for others

From nonprofits tackling goals like yours

Featureships

How Volunteers of America reached new donors on FreeWill to raise $4.2M+ in primary bequest commitments

Planned Giving Suite

How Rocky Mountain Equality boosts legacy giving and offers security to supporters with FreeWill

Planned Giving Suite

How the YWCA USA raised over $8M in legacy gifts through a partnership with FreeWill