2026 Giving Season Summit Recap

Operation Gratitude joined us at the Summit. Discover key takeaways from multiple sessions and how these strategies can benefit your organization moving forward.

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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 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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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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Raise transformational gifts with FreeWill

Here's where FreeWill can help next

Based on the sessions Operation Gratitude 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.

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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