Services for Congregations
The ELCA Foundation can also lead planned-giving presentations and meet with congregational leaders to provide support for stewardship education. Our gift planners have the expertise to assist your congregation or group with planned giving by providing:
- mission endowment fund guidance so your congregation or group can be thoughtful stewards of bequests and planned gifts
- gift planning education through seminars on wills, estate plans and charitable gift planning
- access to the ELCA’s Legacy Society for any member with a planned giving commitment to any ELCA ministry, including your congregation
- investment options for endowments through the ELCA Endowment Fund Pooled Trust and the Mission Investment Fund of the ELCA.
Services for Members
Have you remembered your congregation in your charitable gifts?
It takes time for people to decide to remember the church in their legacy plans and more time to actually do so. There are many ways to include the church as part of your legacy plans. Here are some examples:
Planned Giving Hub
The Foundation is here to help you incorporate planned giving into your ministry’s overall fundraising strategy. Whether you are jump-starting or fine-tuning your program, we can help you put the pieces together.
Visit our planned-giving resource hub to access:
- Step-by-step action plans.
- Gift planning education.
- Marketing best practices.
- Templates, resources, content and more.
Eleanor Thuemmel’s grandmother couldn’t study geography when she was young because the class was not offered to girls. Today, Eleanor and her husband, William, are honoring her grandmother’s legacy by providing young women with scholarships to attend seminary. The ELCA Foundation’s nationwide network of gift planners is here to help you create a plan that fits your unique situation — including your finances, passions and estate-planning goals. There’s no cost or obligation — it is our ministry to be of service
