The Sharpe company offers a variety of educational experiences to help all members of the development and management team learn more about major gift planning. Click the buttons above for details on each seminar offering, including a brief description, complete agenda, locations, dates, tuition, and a registration form. In our experience, major gifts, whether current or deferred, often result from the efforts of one or more staff members and key volunteers over an extended period of time. Many organizations have thus found it beneficial to send various key members to Sharpe seminars.
Discounts are available for multiple registrations to the same seminar from one organization.
All Sharpe seminars are rooted in our experience and designed in light of our belief that most major gifts, whether current or deferred, spring from a complex mix of motivating factors. We explore demographic, economic, and personal financial concerns of donors at different stage in their lives. The goal is to help you understand how the various plans of giving can be used to allow a person to give while still taking care of other personal concerns, such as providing for a comfortable retirement, education of children or grandchildren, care of elderly parents, etc. Tax and other benefits of charitable giving plans are fully explored, but we consider them to be ancillary to the primary motivators of charitable behavior. We welcome staff and volunteer representatives from nonprofit organizations and institutions to attend our seminars.