Real Estate Philantropy and Other Services for Nonprofits and Private Property Owners
Spend Your Time on the Right Real Estate Gift Prospects by Dennis Bidwell March 2012 My last article – “Good Real Estate Gifts Happen with a Little Effort” – showed that an organization will greatly increase its opportunities to attract “good” real estate gifts if it invests in marketing its interest in real estate gifts … Read more…
Good Real Estate Gifts Happen with a Little Effort The Bad Gift Offers Happen Anyway by Dennis Bidwell January 30, 2012 I am more convinced than ever that the likelihood of an organization receiving “good” real estate gifts (properties that are marketable, free of environmental and title problems, and with net value of at least … Read more…
Ramping Up Real Estate Gift Activity – Different Strategies for Different-Sized Development Shops by Dennis Bidwell December 5, 2011 As gifts of cash and appreciated securities remain hard to come by, more and more non-profit development shops are turning their attention to other assets. This often means an increased interest in real estate gifts, since … Read more…
Making Real Estate Gifts Happen September 27, 2011 More and more non-profits are becoming aware that they are not seeing the volume of real estate gifts experienced by some of their peers. They are realizing that other organizations have enjoyed considerable success in attracting a portion of the estimated 30 percent of the nation’s private … Read more…
Real Estate Gifts – A Report from Practitioners in the Trenches As real estate gift activity continues to increase – especially at institutions actively promoting their interest in real estate gifts – more and more professionals are concentrating on the growing field of real estate gift planning. In my work, I often confer with colleagues … Read more…
October 11, 2010 I have recently had occasion to work with several non-profit retirement communities, helping them attract and structure real estate gifts. My experience with such communities is that their residents may have disposed of their primary home (though some still own them), but many of them continue to own a summer home on … Read more…
October 9, 2010 Let’s say that you are in your 70s, and have for some years not been getting much use out of your vacation home on the shore. Instead, you’ve been renting it out more and more, and have become rather accustomed to the extra cash flow from your property. But now, as you … Read more…
October 7, 2010 I am a fan of the work of the Nonprofit Finance Fund. Through consulting services, financing, and advocacy, they help all sorts of nonprofit organizations stay in financial balance, so that they’re able to successfully adapt to changing financial circumstances — in both good and bad economic times — and grow and … Read more…
October 1, 2010 Starting with Tax Year 2003 the IRS has been producing reports called “Individual Noncash Charitable Contributions.” IRS researchers have examined Form 8283 (Noncash Charitable Contributions) used to substantiate charitable deductions greater than $500 claimed on Schedule A (Itemized Deductions) of Form 1040. In the spring of 2010 such a study was issued … Read more…
December 4, 2009 Sometimes owners of conservation-worthy land are reluctant to make a gift of that land to a non-profit organization, such as their alma mater. Their conern is that the non-profit will be bound by its fiduciary responsibility to sell the land at fair market value, even if that means the land might someday be … Read more…