Western Connecticut Area Agency on Aging Summit recap
Your team participated in several sessions at the Summit. Discover key takeaways and practical strategies to enhance your year-end giving and donor engagement efforts.
What your team caught at Summit
Here are the top sessions you or your team attended
The State of Year-End Giving in 2026
Donor behavior is shifting fast this year — the strategies that worked last year-end need updating now.
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.
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.
The DAF Opportunity: Winning Donor-Advised Fund Gifts at Year-End
DAFs are one of the biggest underused channels in philanthropy — and year-end is when to unlock them.
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Here's where FreeWill can help next
Based on the sessions Western Connecticut Area Agency on Aging 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.
FreeWill partners get a dedicated strategist, tested campaign content, and tools that make giving simple, whether that's a will, stock, or a QCD.
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.
What's worked for others
From nonprofits tackling goals like yours
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