Web Site Links

• The Connecticut Council for Philanthropy provides a "Why, Who, When and How" site to assist advisors in working with clients. It has a wonderful bibliography and list of resources. www.ctphilanthropy.org/pages/advisors.
• "The Art of Charitable Planning," is a free, web-based guide for professional advisors, donors, and development professionals, created to help identify creative solutions that will help to solve estate, tax, and financial problems and meet philanthropic objectives, so as to enhance the conversation about philanthropy between advisors and clients. www.baltimoregivingproject.org/homepage2357 or www.donorsforumsf.org.
• Planned Giving Design Center’s site is worth bookmarking for anyone interested in planned gifts. The articles are excellent and the information available is extremely useful to advisors. Membership in the Planned Giving Design Center is free of charge, but registration is required to access their material. For example, a two part article appearing in the Gift Planner’s Digest on 8/25/1999 and 8/31/1999 and entitled "Interviewing the Affluent: Unpacking Philanthropic Values and Motivations", in particular discusses this method of planning with client. www.pgdc.net.
• The Giving Forum is the New Ventures Site and the national site for the Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers, and has a complete listing of resources for advisors and donors alike. www.givingforum.org.
• Council on Foundations, most particularly check the Philanthropic Advisors Network. www.cof.org
• National Center for Family Philanthropy - www.ncfp.org
• Ethical Wills (contains free (voluntary contribution) kit for creating Ethical Wills)- www.ethicalwill.com
• Advisors in Philanthropy - www.advisorsinphilanthropy.org