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  • 2025 Corporate Sponsor

    • November 01, 2024
    • January 31, 2025
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    Maximize Your Exposure with CPGC Sponsorship

    As a sponsor of CPGC, you'll gain valuable exposure to a dedicated and influential group of 45+ organizations across Maryland. This sponsorship enhances your ability to connect with a diverse network, perspectives, and backgrounds that will allow you to better understand the needs and aspiration of donors, organizations, and the communities that we serve.

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  • The Impact of Workplace Culture on Planned Giving

    • January 15, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
    • MPT Visitor Center - 11767 Owings Mills Boulevard Owings Mills, MD 21117
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    Workplace Dynamics and Their Influence on Charitable Gift Planning

    This session examines the subtle yet significant ways workplace culture affects how planned giving is prioritized, structured, and promoted within Development departments.

    Featured Speakers

    Les Goldsborough


    Les Goldsborough is the Director of Planned and Major Giving at Catholic Charities of Baltimore. Previously, he directed gift planning at Loyola University Maryland, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Gilman School, respectively. Les began his fundraising career in 2011 as the Director of Development for the Institute for Islamic, Christian & Jewish Studies in Towson. Before transitioning to the fundraising world, he worked as a trust advisor in the wealth management industry for seventeen years - at Legg Mason Investment Counsel & Trust, Alex. Brown Capital Advisory & Trust Company, and Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Company, respectively. Les started his career practicing law at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston. He is a graduate of Duke University and University of Maryland School of Law and recently earned a Certificate in Financial Planning from the University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Les is a lifelong Baltimorean. His wife and he live in North Roland Park and have five children, ages 6 to 28 years old.


    Richard Letocha


    Richard Letocha assists donors to Johns Hopkins University and Medicine with bequest intentions, life incomes gifts, gifts of tangible personal property, and gifts of real estate. He has prior experience in wealth management, trust and estate administration, and law firm practice, and is a Past President of the Chesapeake Planned Giving Council. He received his Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy ["CAP"] certification in 2024 and co-leads a virtual mid-Atlantic CAP study group.


    Mike Pursley


    Mike is a nonprofit professional with a background in major gifts, annual funds, and prospect management and research. Currently serving as the director of major and planned giving at Maryland Public Television, Mike received an MLA from Johns Hopkins University and a BS from Salisbury University.



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    Member - $50

    Non-member - $75


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  • The Science and The Sentences

    • February 12, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    How to Talk to People About Wealth in Ways That Inspire Major Gifts of Assets

    Wealth is not held in cash; it's held in other assets like stocks, bonds, real estate, and IRAs. Research shows that shifting donors to giving from their wealth [assets], rather than just from their cash [disposable income] can lead to transformational donations. But how can we actually make this happen? Talking about someone else's wealth can be scary! In this presentation, Professor James walks through the step-by-step process that makes these conversations simple, easy, and stress free. You don't need to be a gift planning expert to inspire major gifts of assets. You just need to attend this presentation!

    Featured Speaker

    Russell James, J.D., Ph.D., CFP

    Dr. James, J.D., Ph.D., CFP is a chaired professor in the Department of Personal Financial Planning at Texas Tech University where he directs the on-campus and online graduate program in Charitable Financial Planning [planned giving]. He graduated, cum laude, from the University of Missouri School of Law where he was a member of the Missouri Law Review and received the United Missouri Bank Award for Most Outstanding Work in Gift and Estate Taxation and Planning. He also holds a Ph.D. in consumer economics from the University of Missouri, where his dissertation was on charitable giving.

    Dr. James has published research in more than 75 peer-reviewed scientific journal and law review articles.  He is author of several books including The Storytelling Fundraiser, The Epic Fundraiser, The Primal Fundraiser, The Socratic Fundraiser, Inside the Mind of the Bequest Donor, and Visual Planned Giving.  He has been quoted on charitable and financial issues in a variety of news sources including The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC News, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, the Associated Press, Bloomberg News and the Chronicle of Philanthropy and his financial neuroimaging research was profiled in The Wall Street Journal’s Smart Money Magazine. 


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    Member - $25

    Non-member -$60


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  • April e-Newsletter Advertisement

    • April 15, 2025
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    Expand Your Reach in Our April Newsletter!

    Don't miss the chance to advertise in our April e-Newsletter! Connect with over 350 charitable gift planning professionals and increase your reach to 45+ organizations across Maryland.

    April Advertising Opportunities:

    • Vertical digital newsletter advertisement [300 x 600 pixels] - $130
    • Horizontal digital newsletter advertisement [728 x 90 pixels] - $98
    • Square digital newsletter advertisement [250 x 250 pixels] - $91
    • Logo in newsletter - $98
    • Logo and hyperlink on website for 1 year - $169

    The deadline for purchasing April advertising is March 25, 2025.

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  • July e-Newsletter Advertisement

    • July 08, 2025
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    Expand Your Reach in Our July Newsletter!

    Don't miss the chance to advertise in our July e-Newsletter! Connect with over 350 charitable gift planning professionals and increase your reach to 45+ organizations across Maryland.

    July Advertising Opportunities:

    • Vertical digital newsletter advertisement [300 x 600 pixels] - $130
    • Horizontal digital newsletter advertisement [728 x 90 pixels] - $98
    • Square digital newsletter advertisement [250 x 250 pixels] - $91
    • Logo in newsletter - $98
    • Logo and hyperlink on website for 1 year - $169 

    The deadline for purchasing July advertising is June 24, 2025

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  • October e-Newsletter Advertisement

    • October 14, 2025
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    Expand Your Reach in Our October Newsletter!

    Don't miss the chance to advertise in our October e-Newsletter! Connect with over 350 charitable gift planning professionals and increase your reach to 45+ organizations across Maryland.

    October Advertising Opportunities:

    • Vertical digital newsletter advertisement [300 x 600 pixels] - $130
    • Horizontal digital newsletter advertisement [728 x 90 pixels] - $98
    • Square digital newsletter advertisement [250 x 250 pixels] - $91
    • Logo in newsletter - $98
    • Logo and hyperlink on website for 1 year - $169

    The deadline for purchasing October advertising is September 30. 2025.

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