Instructor: Vincent Fraumeni Course Description Is this the right time to start a planned giving program in your organization? You will learn when and if you are ready to get started and how to revive a program that has happened in fits and starts. This workshop will teach you how to begin a cost effective planned giving program, how to maintain it, and identify when it's time to expand. Your organization doesn't need a large annual budget to get started. The session will look at tried and true promotion strategies and free or low-cost resources to help increase Planned Giving interest and results. Instructor's Bio Vince Fraumeni is a fundraising consultant and a professional speaker. He has accumulated over twenty-three years of professional experience in the field of fundraising and is responsible for raising over $45,000,000 worth of major and planned gifts. He works directly with leaders of non-profit organizations to develop programs, strategies, and promotional materials designed to stimulate increased giving activity. As a recognized planned giving specialist, Vince works with professional staff, donors, and their counsel to create gift arrangements that meet financial, estate planning, and philanthropic objectives.
Vince is a past member of the Board of Directors for the National Committee on Planned Giving and is past president of the Orange County, and the Southern California Planned Giving Round Tables. He is a frequent and recognized speaker at national and regional conferences, workshops and seminars. He has trained countless fundraising executives, financial advisors, and board members. He is a founding faculty member for the American Institute of Philanthropic Studies, and serves on faculty with the Institute for Voluntary Leadership.
He has written and published articles about donor cultivation and solicitation, working with financial professionals, and marketing. He is a writer for a national banking institution and a leading publisher of planned gift promotional materials. He has been interviewed and quoted in the “Chronicle of Philanthropy,” “CASE Currents,” the “Journal of Gift Planning” and various financial planning and career publications including the Wall Street Journal. He is a member of the National Board of Gift-Planning Consultants for Planned Giving Mentor ™.
As a fundraising professional, Vince’s experiences include being Executive Director for the Memorial Medical Center Foundation in Anaheim where, he was responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive fundraising program that included major, planned, and foundation gifts, increasing corporate support, and expanding the donor base. Before joining Anaheim Memorial, Vince developed planned giving programs at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles and Chapman University. Prior to that, he was Director of Development for Planned and Capital Campaign Gifts at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. He began his fundraising career as Director of Planned Giving at Whittier College.
He spends much of his spare time as a community volunteer. He is a member of the Los Angeles (LA-5) Rotary Club and is President of the Arts Foundation for Hacienda La Puente Unified School District. His awards include the Whittier College Alumni Service Award, the Planned Giving Showcase Grand Prize from the Association for Hospital Philanthropy, and the CASE Western Region Award of Excellence for Marketing Planned Gifts. |