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Hosted by Ed Sluga, CFRE · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 40 episodes
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Strategies, wisdom and insights into creating, operating and benefiting from a Planned Giving program at your charitable organization.
Ed Sluga, CFRE hosts PGgrowth - Planned Giving podcast, a business show with 40 episodes published.
For this episode of the PGgrowth Podcast, Ed Sluga is joined by Goody Gibson to discuss a subject on everyone’s minds lately: data. As Principal Consultant for Empower NFP, Goody is consistently helping fundraisers unloc
For our first episode of 2026, Ed interviews Mark Halpern, one of Canada's top life insurance advisors. As the President and Founder of WEALTHinsurance.com, Mark reimagines life insurance as a way to build individual phi
Join us for a special episode of the Planned Giving Podcast . Today the tables are turned and Julia Magnuson-Ford, PGgrowth's Vice President, will be interviewing Ed to celebrate his 30th year as a fundraiser. They discu
From the Archive: Ken Ramsay and Ed Sluga discuss the Golden Age of Planned Giving and how to implement a Planned Giving campaign methodology into an existing Planned Giving program so that an organization can take advan
In this episode, Ed Sluga offers a glance at some important research PGgrowth has been doing. Research in the world of planned giving is often focused on donors and donor attitudes. But what are charities doing to respon
In this week’s podcast, Ed Sluga is joined by Julia Magnuson-Ford and Erika Ewacha to share some exciting news! As many planned giving professionals know, the industry is changing rapidly and facing new challenges as a r
In a continuation of PGgrowth’s 15th anniversary, this week’s podcast is all about Tracey Church. Tracey is a Senior Research Consultant at PGgrowth and one of the preeminent prospect researchers in Canada. In addition t
In this special episode, we shine a spotlight on Suzanne Bone, Senior Consultant at PGgrowth and a trailblazer in hospital foundation fundraising. With over three decades of leadership as the inaugural—and for 31 years,
In this episode of The Planned Giving Pod, Ed Sluga continues the conversation sparked by last week's discussion with Ken Ramsay, diving deeper into the realities of working in planned giving. Planned giving can often fe
In this thought-provoking episode, PGgrowth President and Co-Founder Ed Sluga revisits a critical question: Why are so many charities still struggling to embrace planned giving? Back in 2017, PGgrowth launched an in-dept
Navigating the professional pressure of raising funds for great causes is difficult. Yes, we feel a great sense of well being by working to advance a mission that helps our community. But with that comes great stress and
Enthusiastic promoter of planned giving and all around friend to everyone, Theresa Butler-Porter feels like she has always been a planned giving professional - she just didn't know it. Now, an expert in the field and muc
Peggy Killeen and I sit down and discuss the messages of planned giving - there are the old standards AND the NEW thinking around how to speak to donors. The most important additions are simple: not everyone is the same
From time to time, we mark important moments in the planned giving world with a discussion around the current state of this form of fundraising. We've done it again. This time it is a way to look at the 15 years we have
In our 15 years, PGgrowth has had as part of our team extraordinary leaders and experts in planned giving. This year, we will be taking the time to highlight these professionals. Peggy Killeen is a well known leader in t
In our 15 years, PGgrowth has had as part of our team extraordinary leaders and experts in planned giving. This year, we will be taking the time to highlight these professionals. First up is Grant Monck - leader in plann
In this second pod focusing on our webinar series Driving PG Forward from the Fall of 2023, Ken Ramsay - noted planned giving expert and data guru - gives one of the best arguments for understanding your organization's d
The first of four pods excerpted from our webinar series in the Fall of 2023 titled DRIVING PLANNED GIVING FORWARD. This episode looks at determining organization type and what best practices are the correct ones to impl
In May of 2020, with the pandemic officially taking hold of all of our daily lives, PGgrowth held a Town Hall to examine fundraising in the ear of lock downs and economic unknowns. Now, 3 years later, we look at the afte
Working with charities across the country, we do find one common thread when professionals discuss their ability to - or inability to - launch a truly proactive program: leadership commitment. While the rational and the
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