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KATHRYN MIREE AND ASSOCIATES, INC.

Speaking and Seminar Services

The firm provides speaking and seminar services for professional advisors, for donors, and for boards and volunteers that are tailored to your time frames, key messages, and goals for the audience. These presentations typically range from a 1-hour luncheon presentation to a 2- to 3-hour half-day presentation, to a full day. For a representative list of seminar sponsors, click here.

Key potential audiences include:

Professional Advisors
 

Nonprofit staff and board:
 

Donors
 
The goal of professional advisor seminars is to open and encourage conversations between the advisors and the charity about gift planning options, to raise interest in and education about gift planning options, and to encourage them to consider charitable solutions for common estate and financial planning issues. Handouts are designed to qualify for continuing education credit.


Representative topics include:

• The Top Ten Charitable Planning Ideas for 2008
Changing the Community Through Charitable Planning
• Family Philanthropy Options After the Pension Protection Act of 2006
• The Rules of Engagement: Managing Liability for Nonprofit Boards
• Family Succession Trials and Triumphs
• Ethical Issues in Gift Planning
• Charitable Planning Options in a Low Tax Rate, Low Interest Rate Environment
• After the In Dries: What Every Advisor Should Know About Managing Family Foundations
• The Role of the Professional Advisor in Planned Giving Programs
• From Theory to Practice: Building Nonprofit Endowments

Trends and Challenges in Planned Giving

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Seminars for nonprofit staff and board are generally designed to educate staff and board about gift planning opportunities and their roles and responsibilities in the gift management process to create a strong working relationship between the two groups. The sessions may also be tailored training board members and volunteers to make donor calls, or to train major gift officers to introduce planned gift concepts on calls.

Representative topics include:

• Talking to Donors About Endowment and Planned Gifts
• Getting Started in Planned Giving
• Challenges Facing our Donors
• The Role of Planned Giving in Major Gifts
• The Role of Trustees in Planned Giving and Building Endowment
• Evaluating a Planned Giving Program: Infrastructure, Personnel and Marketing
• What Every Board Member Must Know About Gift Planning
• Marketing Planned Gifts
• Planned Giving Fundamentals
• From Theory to Practice: Building Nonprofit Endowment
• Three Models to Build Endowment
• Everything You Wanted to Know About a Planned Giving Audit

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Donors are a popular seminar audience. Donor topics are generally focused on current issues or on matters of specific interest to the particular audience. The goal is to educate and motivate, prompting donors to take the next step in planning and to include the charity in those plans.


Representative topics include:

• The Challenges Facing Donors – And Gift Planning Solutions
• Seven Habits of Highly Successful Women
• The Ten Things Every Woman Needs to Know About Estate and Financial Planning
• The Ten Things Every Individual Needs to Know About Estate Planning (Before You See Your Attorney)
• Eight Practical Ways to Use Gift Annuities
• Passing Family Values from Generation to Generation

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Are you interested in requesting a proposal for services? Simply let us know your goals and objectives, and how to contact you. We will be happy to provide a written proposal without cost or obligation.
 

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