To: Parish Bulletin Editors, Development and Stewardship Directors
From: Maureen Cully, Manager of Marketing and Communications, Catholic Foundation of North Georgia
Please find the bulletin notes for the month of July in both English and Spanish. Bulletin graphics are available below.
For the next several months, we are encouraging planned giving in terms of gifts anyone can make – regardless of income or wealth. In July, the focus is on making a gift of appreciated assets to the parish endowment fund, which gives your parishioners tax benefits and enables them to support your parish.
We also included a note for parishioners who have made a planned gift in their will or estate plan to let us know so that we can honor them as a member of the Deo Gratias society. We will be running these periodically up until the Deo Gratias Mass and Reception with Bishop Konzen in October. Please consider using these notes in your parish bulletin to encourage planned gifts to your parish endowment fund, which will benefit your parish forever.
Some parishes have indicated that they would prefer a simple business card size graphic that they can just place in their bulletin. We are providing both formats to fit your parish’s needs!
We would like to work with you to increase your parish endowment fund, and we would like to make it as easy as possible to do so. These bulletin notes are just one way to communicate planned giving to your parishioners.
If you have any questions regarding the notes, please contact me at mcully@cfnga.org.
If you have any questions about your parish endowment fund or planned giving, please contact Juliet Greco at 404.497.9440 or jgreco@cfnga.org.
Graphics:
Appreciated Stock Transfer for a Gift Anyone Can Make
Appreciated Stock Transfer for No Impact on Family
Appreciated Stock Transfer for Tax Benefits
Deo Gratias-Society