2026 Giving Season Summit Recap

Cornucopia Project joined the Summit to gather valuable insights. Discover key takeaways and strategies from the sessions attended to enhance your year-end giving efforts.

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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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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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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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Must-Use Practices for Conversations With Major Donors at End-of-Year

Year-end is a relationship moment, not just a solicitation moment — the strongest asks come from confident, trust-first conversations.

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Raise transformational gifts with FreeWill

Here's where FreeWill can help next

Based on the sessions The Cornucopia Project attended, we've pulled together a few ways to keep the momentum going.

FreeWill partners get a dedicated strategist and a tested year-end campaign structure, so your team isn't building the plan from scratch.

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.

William, FreeWill's AI writing tool for nonprofit fundraisers, turns a blank page into a first draft of an appeal, thank-you note, or social post in minutes — built to write in your organization's own voice.

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