Your summit recap

PAWS Chicago's personalized summit recap

PAWS Chicago joined us at the Summit. Explore insights from the sessions attended and discover strategies your organization can implement for year-end fundraising 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

World-Class Stewardship for December Donors

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

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Year-End Email Blueprint: Every Message You Need to Send Before Dec 31

The right message at the right moment — not more emails — is what builds a complete, high-performing year-end email calendar.

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Raise transformational gifts with FreeWill

Here's where FreeWill can help next

Based on the sessions PAWS Chicago 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 and a tested year-end campaign structure, so your team isn't building the plan from scratch.

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What's worked for others

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