The Chronicle of Philanthropy


Gaining Donors' Trusts

Charities step up their efforts to attract sizable planned gifts

By NICOLE LEWIS

In the late 1980's and early 1990's, the University of Missouri at Columbia's alumni magazine regularly featured advertisements showing an elderly couple who had made a planned gift.

The ad was nothing fancy, just a snapshot of the smiling donors and the reason they chose to set up a charitable...

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