Optimize Your Program for Results
We review relevant figures and documents, interview staff members, and provide a full assessment of your program. This review will identify key areas that can be enhanced, resulting in a program that is more productive and more successful.
As part of the evaluation, we provide concrete strategies and recommendations for improving your program. These strategies focus on optimizing the allocation of your resources, creating engaging marketing campaigns, educating staff, improving plans and procedures, and identifying program potential.
While the strategy we develop will provide a framework for improving your program, we know that your success also will depend on effective implementation. Whether your planned giving program is mature, encompassing all gift types, or consists mainly of bequest and bequest-like gifts, PG Calc is there to help you put our recommendations into action.
Program Evaluation Features
- We develop policies and procedures.
- We define pipeline and capacity.
- We build planned giving portfolios.
- We assist with prospecting and closing gifts.
- We help with staffing, training, and board involvement.
- We guide you through marketing and stewardship best practices.
- We help with benchmarking and metrics.
- We work with you on counting and recognition.
- We consult with you on gift administration.
- We project future income.
- We evaluate threats and opportunities.
- We determine your readiness for a Bequest Legacy Challenge.
What It's Like to Work With Us
We take a comprehensive approach to reviewing your program, and use our findings to inform the steps you can take to make your program more effective and close more gifts. Our team immerses itself in your operations. Through a combination of data, interviews, and observation, we gather what we need to perform a comprehensive evaluation of your program.
We spend time talking with you and your staff. We assess the performance of your program to identify potential areas of improvement.
We take a look at your donor base, as its composition goes a long way in determining the best way to structure your program, forecast your pipeline, and identify your program’s overall potential.
Together we come up with a plan that you can implement regardless of how your organization is structured. Recommendations will focus on effective use of your resources to improve your planned giving program results.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center hired PG Calc consultants on retainer in 2019. They work with planned giving staff, marketing, operations, and leadership to strengthen the planned giving effort at VUMC. PG Calc developed and delivered a donor/patient survey that allowed us to learn more about our planned giving partners, as they shared their stories, passions, and interests in engaging more with VUMC development. Their survey responses provided invaluable information and significantly increased our Legacy Circle membership.
Vice President for Development
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jeff Lydenberg, Ann McPherson and the entire team at PG Calc offer invaluable support to me and my Development colleagues at Mass General Hospital. Their work with us over the last many years as consultants has been wide-ranging and includes, but has not been limited to, assisting leadership in long range planning, working hand-in-hand to build program plans and providing guidance and advice in our work with donors and their advisors. PG Calc has partnered with the Mass General planned giving staff for more than a decade and have assisted in the steady development of our marketing program. Their expertise, steady counsel and creativity have been instrumental in the evolution of our program on every front. The PG Calc staff are responsive, collaborative and great champions for the organizations with which they work. We at Mass General consider ourselves so fortunate to have PG Calc’s partnership in our daily work
Managing Director, Planned Giving
Massachusetts General Hospital Development Office
Our consultants engage with you on an ongoing basis to guide you and improve your planned giving program.
Minimize your organization's risk and assure your CGA program's health and profitability.
