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BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP:

  • High quality, live educational programs presented by experts in charitable giving, estate planning, financial and law, offered quarterly at no charge to members.
  • Case Study Workshops are valuable for all fundraisers and advisors and are especially helpful to newer advisors and officers to assist them in reviewing and analyzing gift opportunities in several different situations.
  • Seminars led by national experts, offered locally at members-hosted sites (up to) six times per year.
  • Mentoring program, matching seasoned professionals with individuals who are new to planned giving.
  • Opportunities to network and exchange ideas with colleagues in the field.
  • Membership directory, updated quarterly and posted in Member portal.
  • Job posting service, with planned giving position announcements emailed to members and posted on PGRT website for 30 days.
  • Discounted registration to annual Development Day conference.
  • Quarterly luncheon meetings with Legislative Updates - free to members 
  • Monthly seminars
  • Please see our Program Schedule for specific meeting dates and information.

BENEFITS OF NATIONAL (CGP) MEMBERSHIP:

CGP is the national association for people whose work involves charitable gift planning. Their network includes more the 120 local planned giving councils working close to home to provide education and professional community. The mission of CGP is to increase both the quality and quantity of charitable planned gifts by serving as the voice and professional resource for the gift planning community. Benefits include:

  • Access to CGP Link, a web-based networking hub for CGP members and a centralized resource of information published by CGP and shared by its members and partners
  • Legislative Updates and national representation through ongoing work in government relations, ethics, education and research.
  • Perspectives e-newsletter
  • Members are listed on the CGP online directory and have access to its search and membership record update features
  • CGP Career Center - post job openings and/or view job postings for positions related to gift planning nation-wide
  • Discounted registration for CGP National Conference
  • Discounts on monthly CGP webinars

National Association of Charitable Gift Planners 
1075 S. Broad Ripple Ave, #306 Indianapolis, Indiana 46220-2034 
For questions on membership in CGP, please contact Carey Wilson at (317)269-6274, x.34, or email: membership@charitablegiftplanners.org 

For more information about membership, or to be included on our email and mailing lists for event and membership information, contact our Executive Director, Lori Brauer at (810)375-2180 or Email: pgrtsem@gmail.com


Our Council shares the physical mailing list of our membership with other professional organizations, most notably, the Association of Fundraising Professionals-Greater Detroit Chapter, and The Financial & Estate Planning Council of Metropolitan Detroit, solely for purpose of professional collaboration.  Please contact our office if you do not want us to share your information.