This session is designed for senior nonprofit leadership and development professionals.

Is your organization thinking about starting or strengthening an endowment fund or planned
giving program? Has your Board planned for the future of your organization? Or are you just
curious to know what all the buzz is about “endowments”?

In Understanding Endowment, Benefactor’s Paul Yeghiayan will introduce and
review the what, why, and how behind a successful endowment building effort.
This session will help attendees:
• Explore what an endowment is – and why it’s important
• Understand the types of endowment funds
• Learn about the different kinds of gifts, including planned gifts, that help
grow endowments
• Consider the policies you need in place for an endowment program
to be successful
• Discover how an endowment can offer donors confidence that their
gifts will make a lasting difference

Join us March 28 for a peek into this powerful tool for organizational sustainability.

About the Presenter:
[photo] Paul Yeghiayan has more than 20 years of nonprofit management and frontline fundraising and consulting experience, raising tens of millions of dollars for mission-driven organizations. Before joining Benefactor Group, Paul worked as a senior consultant with Copley Raff, Inc. to support the success of numerous nonprofit organizations serving the needs of diverse groups of beneficiaries in public health, food insecurity, poverty, healthcare, museums, trade associations, and social justice.
An active member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and president of the nation’s largest chapter in Washington, DC, Paul is an AFP Master Trainer. He is a Certified Fund Raising Executive, a Certified Specialist in Planned Giving, a Fellow in Charitable Estate Planning, and is currently earning the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy designation. He earned a graduate degree from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.