2026 Giving Season Summit Recap

Environmental Defense Fund joined us at the Summit. Discover key insights from multiple sessions and how your organization can leverage these strategies for year-end success.

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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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World-Class Stewardship for December Donors

The donor relationship starts, not ends, when the year-end gift clears.

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Raise transformational gifts with FreeWill

Here's where FreeWill can help next

Based on the sessions Environmental Defense Fund attended, we've pulled together a few ways to keep the momentum going.

Environmental Defense Fund is already seeing bequests come in through FreeWill's public website — 13 gifts worth $861,250 combined this past year. That's a clear sign donors are ready to include your organization in their long-term giving.

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'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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