Real Estate Philantropy and Other Services for Nonprofits and Private Property Owners
by Dennis Bidwell April 2013 In my experience there are many property owners with the motivation and financial capacity to make an outright gift of their real estate. That is why I always urge development officers to begin conversations with a prospective property donor with the possibility of an outright gift. When it becomes clear … Read more…
by Dennis Bidwell April 2013 Take-aways from this gift scenario: Approval of this gift involved various departments at George Washington University: Planned Giving, Risk Management, Legal, Facilities Management, CFO, and Vice President for Advancement. It all worked smoothly because GWU had previously invested time in thinking through the procedures for evaluating and accepting real estate … Read more…
by Dennis Bidwell November 2012 Myth #1: If a property owner is offering a piece of real estate as a gift, there must be something wrong with it. Most of the time this is simply not true. These days property owners are exploring giving away perfectly fine pieces of real estate because: 1) they have … Read more…
by Dennis Bidwell November 2012 Take-aways from this gift scenario: Many donors have the capacity to make outright gifts of real estate, which can be converted to cash and put to use in a very short period of time. For this reason real estate gifts are being pursued as often by major gift officers and … Read more…