2026 Giving Season Summit Recap

Conservation Minnesota joined us at the Summit. Explore highlights from the sessions attended and discover strategies to enhance your year-end fundraising efforts.

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What your team caught at Summit

Here are the top sessions you or your team attended

The Types of Gifts That Matter Most in 2026

Tax law changes and shifting donor preferences mean the gifts driving growth this year aren't the ones you'd expect.

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Keys to Winning Donor Attention in an Election Year

Cutting through election-year noise takes sharper, more deliberate messaging than a normal giving season.

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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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Here's where FreeWill can help next

Based on the sessions Conservation Minnesota 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.

Donors trust a simple, professional way to give — whether that's a will, a stock gift, or a QCD — and FreeWill makes that easy to offer.

FreeWill partners get a dedicated strategist, tested campaign content, and tools that make giving simple, whether that's a will, stock, or a QCD.

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