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Who we are and what we do
Ellen Estes provides expert advice and counsel in the area of major
and planned giving to organizations nationwide. No matter what segment
of the nonprofit world you serve - the arts, education, religion,
health care, social services, or other endeavors - Ellen Estes can
help you find the solutions to your organization's fundraising problems
- and raise more funds for your organization.
Consulting
For more than 25 years clients have come to rely on Ellen's expertise
in major and planned giving to increase their fund raising results.
Some of her consulting services include
- Personal, hands-on consulting with each client - tailored
to that client's specific needs, goals, and objectives
- Training - Ellen is known nationwide as one of the best
teachers in the field
- Marketing - Ellen can provide objectivity and fresh ideas
for building and marketing your program
- Reliability - Ellen is always there - personally - when
you have a question or need help
Planned Giving - Plain and Simple™ Seminars
Our one-day, comprehensive seminar will give you everything you
need to know to develop a successful planned giving program
- What planned giving is - and why it is especially important
in today's environment
- How to identify your best prospects for planned gifts
- How to market planned gifts to your donors and prospects
- What you can do as soon as you get back to the office to start
raising more gifts
We hope that you will join our popular one-day seminar, Planned
Giving - Plain and Simple™ You will find it a day well
spent. [More info]
Charitable Chords
The trio provides musical entertainment at Annual Meetings, Board
Meetings, and other special gatherings. [More
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About Ellen Estes
Ellen G. Estes is a graduate of the Yale Law School and practiced
law as an estate planning and tax attorney with the law firm
of Shearman & Sterling in New York City. She then became
Legal Counsel to the Campaign for Yale, which raised over
$370 million in five years. She gained more general fund raising
experience as the first director of development for Connecticut's
acclaimed Long Wharf Theatre. There she planned, organized
and implemented its successful development program.
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As a consultant, Ellen helps nonprofit organizations put
planned giving to work by focusing on practical strategies
to help donors increase gifts.
A prominent lecturer, Ellen is a popular speaker at national,
regional, and local conferences. Her speaking engagements
have included Council for the Advancement and Support of Education
(CASE), The Council on Foundations, Association of Fundraising
Professionals (AFP), The National Catholic Development Conference,
Association of Healthcare Philanthropy, American Council on
Gift Annuities, and the National Committee on Planned Giving
(NCPG). She also conducted statewide training sessions for
nonprofits in the LEAVE A LEGACY® CONNECTICUT program.
For seven years she wrote the Planned Giving column for
Contributions, the bi-monthly newspaper for nonprofit
professionals, and her articles have appeared in many other
national professional publications including the Journal
of Gift Planning, Planned Giving Today, and The
Planned Giving Mentor™ the newsletter for newcomers
to gift planning. She now serves on that publication's national
board of gift-planning consultants.
A ballerina in her youth, Ellen performed professionally
with the Philadelphia Ballet Company. Since then she has continued
her involvement in music and dance, and recently formed a
group called The Charitable Chords
- which performs musical parodies about fund raising
and charitable giving at professional conferences and at client
meetings and events around the country.
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Norwalk, CT