Hampton Roads Gift Planning Council Meeting
Thursday, May 14, 2026
A Baker's Dozen of Gift Planning Tips
with guest speakers:
Robert J. Brennan, Executive Director of Gift Planning
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
and
Ken Wolfe, Senior Philanthropic Advisor
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
No visit to Colonial Williamsburg is complete without a stop at the Raleigh Tavern Bakery for some of our world-famous ginger cake cookies. Please join Bob and Ken for their Baker's Dozen of Gift Planning tips that are sure to help your gift planning program thrive in 2026.
Key goals include:
- Demonstrating trends and techniques that will help organizations secure more new, and grow existing gift plans,
- Showing why active gift planning programs generate significantly more revenue and
- Highlighting the importance of internal and external collaboration
We will share examples of effective gift planning marketing material that generates responses, demonstrate why listening may be one of the best tools we have, and explain why the power of stories inspires and connects us to things much bigger than ourselves.
