planned giving design center

Planned Giving Design Center


What is the Planned Giving Design Center?

www.pgdc.com

• National network of websites dedicated to advancing

philanthropy through education via the Internet

• The world’s largest website on the subject of planned giving

with thousands of pages of content: articles, news stories,

technical reports, case studies, calculations and discussion

forums

• Networking community for professional advisors

• Communications tool between charity and advisors


What are the Benefits of Membership?

• Membership is FREE

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• Timely email news alerts on the latest updates concerning planned

giving

• Gift calculations

• Extensive research capabilities through advanced search engine

• Participate in Discussion Forums

• Comment on content and articles

• Email content to colleagues or donors

• Communicate with and learn more about our organization

• Market your services

• Print to PDF

• Personalize your user settings

• Register for local events


Navigation and Search

• New ways to view and locate content

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• Review content by Type and Category

• Search content by the Category Cloud

• A Cloud Block links to a full page Category Cloud for

expanded view - it uses different size fonts to illustrate

the number of items in that category relative to all others

• Visually find all letter rulings in the site

and navigate to them with a single

mouse click


Navigation and Search

• Advanced search engine allows

you to search tens of thousands

of pages of content quickly and

easily

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• Search for single words, groups

of words in quotes, exact

matches, multiple groups of

words in quotes and much more


Forums

• Discussion Forums are more powerful than ever

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• All 26,000+ members opted in to forums

• The most active discussions are found on front page of

the site

• Forum questions and answers

are included in news alerts

• Post a new topic from the

General Discussion page

• Easily turn options on/off in

your member preferences


Calculations

• PhilanthroTec’s planned giving calculator is now loaded into the PGDC website so you don’t have to leave the PGDC to perform calculations.

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Invite Friends & Befriend

• Invite associates to become members of the

growing PGDC community

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• When you invite someone to become a

PGDC member they will automatically be

added to your friends list

• Befriend another member and be

notified in your email when they make

comments, ask or answer questions

• You can befriend another member by simply clicking on the logo to the

right of their name above a comment


Customize Your Profile

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• You can change your name, email address, password, biography and

many other options pertaining to your account

• Customize your personal signature that

appears when you add content to the site

• View all the comments you have made

since becoming a member

• Track where you’ve been on the PGDC


Calendars

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• A calendar system provides members with dates and information on

local and national planned giving events

• Members can register for events allowing hosts to send reminder

emails

• Yellow highlight indicates there is an event

posted for that day

• Members will always know what is going

on in planned giving in our community

and throughout the nation


Blocks

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Blocks are now used on the right side of the screen to aggregate or show various types of information:

• Monthly Archive of content history, dating back to 1998

• Active Discussions

• Active Forum Topics

• The most Popular Content


Content Comments

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• Post comments of your own

• Reply to other member’s comments

• Vote comments up or down based on their value to you

• Below comments, you can see similar content based on keywords


PGDC News Alerts

• All of the new articles, national and local news, calendar

events, comments on articles, forum questions and even polls

are sent to you in one convenient email

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• Click on any item in the news alert and you are automatically

logged into the site - no reason to remember your username

and password

• Choose to receive news alerts as they occur, weekly or never

through your member profile


RSS Feeds

• Want the news right away? Really Simple Syndication

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• Simply click the orange RSS icon and you’re on your way

• Use Google Reader, iPhone, Blackberry or other smart phone

to receive PGDC news wherever you are, whenever it

happens

• RSS icons can be

found throughout the

site allowing you to

customize your feed


Quick Recap

• Research thousands of pages of content multiple ways

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• Participate in the Discussion Forums - Ask and answer questions

• Stay up to date on the law, planning techniques and planned giving

events in our community and the nation

• Read what others have to say in content comments

• Invite friends, make new ones and find other professionals in the

national member directory

• And it’s all delivered to your door free of charge in the PGDC News

Alerts via email


Summary

• Simply go to www.pgdc.com/XXXX and choose Create Account to

become a member for free

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• Customize your profile in the Member Activities section

• Join in the Discussion Forums

• Learn more about our organization on the Local Page and

Resources tab

• Have an idea for a feature on the PGDC? Email [email protected]

• Would you like to be a contributing writer? Email [email protected]

• Sponsorships of the PGDC is available, please speak with XXXXX

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