2026 Giving Season Summit Recap

Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation participated in the Summit. Discover valuable takeaways from multiple sessions to help your organization enhance year-end giving strategies.

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What your team caught at Summit

Here are the top sessions you or your team attended

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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Just for you

A few sessions we think your team would enjoy

World-Class Stewardship for December Donors

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

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The Ideal Year-End Playbook for Organizations of Different Sizes

There's no single blueprint for year-end success, but proven approaches scale to fit your team's size and resources.

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Here's where FreeWill can help next

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