{"id":2721,"date":"2013-03-01T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/?page_id=2721"},"modified":"2013-03-01T05:24:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T05:24:37","slug":"testimonials-for-engaging-your-board-in-planned-giving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/webinars\/upcoming\/testimonials-for-engaging-your-board-in-planned-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimonials for Engaging Your Board in Planned Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;The presenters were extremely knowledgeable and offered exceptional advice for creating or expanding an organization\u2019s Planned Giving programs.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Susan Smith, Assistant Development Director, UNT Health Science Center<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">\u2018Extremely valuable &amp; a session I would recommend! I learned that is is important to have a business plan when engaging the board and the importance of ensuring \u2018buy in\u2019 from the Board. I also took away how important it is to understand the Board, not assuming they know all A aspects of what we are doing.\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Traci Anderson, Executive Director, Boys and Girls Club of Kamloops<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Good presenters&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liza Smithies,\u00a0Development Officer, Annual Giving,\u00a0Environmental Defence<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;I learned how to move forward with small steps in getting to know each board member, and their reasons for being on our board etc.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Colette Halferty, Director of Development, L&#8217;Arche Daybreak<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;I learned how to distinguish between the culture of time and talent and perhaps the culture of giving and getting.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brian Tardif,\u00a0Executive Director, Citizen Advocacy of Ottawa<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8216;The presenters were extremely knowledgeable and offered exceptional advice for creating or expanding an organization\u2019s Planned Giving programs.&#8217; Susan Smith, Assistant Development Director, UNT Health Science Center \u00a0\u2018Extremely valuable &amp; a session I would recommend! I learned that is is important to have a business plan when engaging the board and the importance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":1867,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2721\/revisions\/2734"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/connie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}