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2009 Conference, Oct. 14-17, 2009, National Harbor, MD |
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History of NCPG
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1969, Congress passed the Tax Reform Act changing the way Americans
could make charitable contributions. This was the major impetus for
the creation of the field of planned giving. During the 1970s the
planned giving profession was in its infancy, but by the end of the
decade many organizations were beginning to see its vast potential.
In 1978, one of those organizations, Lilly Endowment, Inc., offered
a program to 19 independent colleges in Indiana to help them launch
or expand their planned giving efforts. The program was a success,
and in 1979, a similar program was offered to 15 schools of theology
across the country. Again, the results were impressive. At the same
time, the Endowment became aware of two planned giving programs
funded by the Northwest Area Foundation. Their results were quite
comparable to the Endowment’s experience in Indiana.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, groups of professionals
involved in gift planning began to have “think tank” meetings to
discuss the feasibility of a national organization to act as a
coordinator and facilitator for networking the various professionals
and organizations involved in planned giving.
A meeting to study the needs and possibilities of a national
organization for planned giving was held on October 29-30, 1985, in
Chicago. Those in attendance agreed that there was a need for a
significant number of services for planned giving officers that
might be provided by some type of national organization. Its mission
would be twofold: to provide quality educational opportunities for
gift planning professionals and to unite the growing number of local
planned giving groups already forming in larger metropolitan areas.
In late January of 1988, the National Committee on Planned Giving
opened its office in Indianapolis, Indiana. NCPG was formed as a
501(c)(3) public charity whose mission was to facilitate,
coordinate, and encourage the education and training of the planned
giving community, and to facilitate effective communication among
the many different professionals in this community. The organization
functioned for the first ten years as a federation of planned giving
councils, and then added a membership category for individuals in
2001. In 2009, NCPG changed its name to the Partnership for
Philanthropic Planning and its mission to “Charitable giving made
most meaningful.” |
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