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Abstract

The Smart Giver

How Your Church Can Raise Money
and Attract Major Gifts

While providing increased income and tax benefits to your donors

From: Robert D. Cavanaugh, CLU
Publisher, The Smart Giver

Due to the current state of the economy, both churches and people are
experiencing problems. Here's a short list...

Problems: Churches

* Operating in the red.
* Pledges and charitable giving down due to the economic situation.
* Inability to fund ministries.
* No endowment fund and no plan to build one.
* And, according to a 2010 Barna Group report:
-- 150 million Americans have been affected by the economic
turbulence.
-- As a result, Americans are cutting back substantially on their
giving and have become more pessimistic about the future of
economic recovery..

Problems: People

* Low income from fixed income assets such as CDs.
* Ownership of highly appreciated assets that don't produce an
income.
-- A large capital gain tax to pay if sold.
-- Less to re-invest.
* IRAs that will shrink 35% - 65% when passed to the next generation.
* Retirees discovering their Social Security retirement benefits are
taxed.

I'VE GOT A SOLUTION...

Churches
* That will help to begin to build an endowment fund so that
eventually the church can fund its ministries from the interest on
the endowment fund investments.
* Remove the affect of the state of the current economy on
fundraising.
* Eliminate the dependence on annual pledges.

People

I am going to give you all the information, resources and techniques
you need to:
* Increase your income.
* Reduce your taxes.
* And, if your estate will be faced with estate transfer costs, show
you ways to reduce or eliminate those costs so your estate goes to
your children instead of half or more to the government.

The real key is that all the techniques I teach also provide a
financial benefit to your church as a by-product.

HOW IS THIS DONE?

It's through a new training course offered by The Smart Giver. The
Smart Giver is a 16 issue subscription to bi-weekly charitable giving,
financial and estate planning techniques designed to solve these
problems.

WITH THIS COURSE, YOU'LL DISCOVER...

If you are a senior citizen, how you can double your spendable income
from a CD and have more money for food, gas and other essentials.

If you are an individual who finds your home much too big and too
expensive to maintain, you'll discover you how you can sell without a
capital gain tax, buy a smaller home or condo for cash and receive a
safe, lifetime income.

If you want to save more for retirement, but are contributing the
maximum the law allows to your 401(k) plan, you can get up a special
retirement plan to save more. It grows tax-deferred and even accepts
contributions other than cash, like appreciated stock or real estate.

Are your Social Security retirement benefits being taxed? If so, you'll
discover a way to lower or eliminate this tax.

If you are a business owner, who started a business from scratch, I'll
show you a way to sell your business without a capital gains tax and
convert the business into a guaranteed lifetime income.

How to sell a life insurance policy you don't need any more for more
than the cash value. Did you know you can even sell term insurance
(which has no cash value) for cash?

How to gift your home to your church and still live in it for the rest
of your life. Plus, get a tax deduction that can lower your taxes
(thereby increasing your income).

How to pass a 20 million dollar estate to your kids 100% tax-free.

...and many more techniques - 16 in all - designed to increase your
income and reduce your taxes.

CHURCHES WILL DISCOVER...

How to finance your ministries from an aging membership on a
limited income.

How to attract current gifts and move from operating in the red to the
black and take the financial pressure off.

Charitable giving ideas on how to attract major gifts without affecting
current giving.

How to build an endowment fund so that eventually your church is
financing your (vastly expanded) ministries from the interest on the
endowment investments.

How pastors can sleep better at night know that the church's budget is
not entirely dependent on pledges.

How your church can have a professional, low-key planned giving
presentation made to the church's membership twice a month and see
gifts coming in out of the blue as a result.

How your church can do more good because it has more money.

YOU AND YOUR CHURCH HAVE CHOICES...

You can continue to operate in the dark - living on a lower income,
paying more taxes than you should, paying a capital gain tax when you
sell an appreciated asset, being content with an estate plan that
shares part of your hard-earned money with the government instead of
your children - and a myriad of other less than optimum results -
simply by not having information...

If you are a church, you can continue a hand-to-mouth existence, always
wondering where the next dollar will come from and hoping that all the
pledges will be honored so you can at least break even...

Or..

You can have access to cutting-edge and time-tested planning techniques
designed to increase your income, reduce your taxes, preserve your
estate and help your church financially in the process.

If you are a church, you can have a planned giving technique delivered
to your membership on a bi-weekly basis and begin to see gifts come
into your endowment fund so eventually you are operating a
vastly-expanded ministry from the earnings of your endowment fund.

HAVE QUESTIONS? WE'VE GOT ANSWERS...

Your Questions:

Q: Will every planning technique apply to my situation? Family benefits
A: No. Every person's situation is different. It would be unreasonable
to state that every technique applies to everyone. However, any given
technique may apply to your mother, father, aunt, uncle, brother,
sister or friend. Furthermore, your situation may change. The lessons
can be archived and may be applicable in the future.

Q: This sounds complicated. I don't understand all the tax mumbo jumbo.
A: What I have done is simplify everything. I use layman's language,
examples that everyone can relate to and simple before and after
summaries. My approach is that you just need to know what time it is,
not how how the watch is made. If you implement a given strategy, the
details will be handled by your professional advisors.

Q: This sounds expensive. I don't know if I can afford it.
A: Well, you're right. Advice from a qualified professional in this
area can cost $150-$300 an hour. However, I have priced the
subscription to The Smart Giver at a level virtually everyone can
afford.

Q: Can I cancel my subscription whenever I want?
A: Yes. You pay for your subscription on a month-to-month basis unlike
a magazine subscription where you pay for the full term of the
subscription. If you feel you are not receiving a value, simply
unsubscribe. Of course, all the lessons you have received are yours to
keep.

Q: How much can I increase my income or reduce my taxes?
A: Since most of the techniques taught apply to assets, the increase in
income or the reduction in taxes will depend on the size of the asset.
On the low end, I have a lesson about a $50,000 CD where the
application of the technique increased the person's income by a couple
hundred dollars a month and created a $20,000 income tax deduction.
Larger assets can produce increases in income of much larger amounts
and savings ranging from tens of thousand of dollars all the way up to
savings in the millions.

Q: My attorney, accountant, et al, takes care of all this stuff.
A: Most of your professional advisors are qualified to help you in the
areas I teach. However, my experience over about 40 years is that most
are too busy just handling the business they have; many do not feel it
is their responsibility to initiate the discussion. Just ask yourself
this question: When was the last time your attorney called you and said
he/she just returned from a tax seminar, learned of some recent tax
changes that may have a bearing on your situation and suggested you get
together with them for lunch?

Q: Who is Bob Cavanaugh and how can I be sure he even knows what he's
talking about?
A: I just celebrated my 41st year in the financial and estate planning
business. I have over 20,000 documented face-to-face interviews with
folks just like you.

Over the years, I have worked in a number of markets. Initially I built
a clientele of about 400 attorneys. Then I went on to work with
business owners with their business continuation, executive fringe
benefits and retirement planning needs. I also have worked in the
qualified plan arena installing pension, profit sharing and 401(k)
plans.

Categorically, I have worked in the areas of taxes, employee and
executive benefits, qualified plans, estate planning, charitable
planned giving, long-term care, annuities, IRA distribution planning,
and post-retirement financial planning.

Q: Do you have some examples of what the lessons are about?
A: No, not examples of the actual lessons. The lessons go into quite a
bit of detail. You can, however, get a taste of some of the topics and
problems solved by viewing the short videos I put together on my video
podcast site: thesmartgiver/podcast. Further insight into
who I am and what The Smart Giver is about can also be found at my
blog: thesmartgiver/blog.

Church Questions:

Q: Our national church has a charitable giving program - why do we need
The Smart Giver? Church endowment fund benefits
A: This is a two-part answer.
1. My experience is that many churches have a fine program at the
national level. However, lack of resources - both money and
staffing - prevent the message to be adequately communicated at the
local level.

For example, I belonged to a well-known national denomination church
for eleven years. One time, I put on a panel discussion on the
subject of charitable estate planning which included a tax attorney,
trust offer and me. In the process of preparing, our minister
brought me a planned giving manual published by the national church
with the thought it might make the event even more successful.

The manual was fantastic! It contained all the latest techniques and
tons of helpful information.

But in all my eleven years of attendance, I never saw the manual, we
never had a visit from anyone and the subject of planned giving was
never brought up.

2. Some churches do receive an annual or bi-annual visit from a person
who puts on a seminar, generally on wills, trusts and bequests, in
a lot of cases after a service. Generally, these are not
well-attended (why would someone who already has a will and/or
trust be motivated to attend?) and only scratch the surface of the
techniques available to help people with various problems.

A few of the largest churches in the country actually are blessed
with a planned giving officer on the staff. In both these cases, The
Smart Giver can serve as a silent "door-opener" and "another arrow
in the quiver."

Q: How do we implement this in our church?
A: One of the bonuses that I provide for subscribers is a report
entitled, "Ten Ways to Implement The Smart Giver in Your Congregation
Without Spending a Lot of Time or Money." I want to emphasize there is
nothing to learn, no school to go to, or no diploma in planned giving
to earn. Implementation is simply communicating the existence of The
Smart Giver to your membership. Period. Send people to this web page
and let them decide for themselves if they can benefit from a
subscription. That's all there is to it.

Q: Do we need a stewardship/endowment committee to make this work?
A: No.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO SUBSCRIBE?

For $29.95 a month you can have access to 16 lessons, each of which is
designed to increase your income, reduce your taxes, preserve your
estate from undo taxation and help your church financially at the same
time.

Every churchgoer will benefit by having a subscription to The Smart
Giver. Setting a price that virtually anyone can afford gets the
information in front of more people and helps more churches build an
endowment fund (which helps even more people through expanded
ministries).

You can unsubscribe any time you want without penalties or hassles.

PLUS, I THROW A VALUABLE BONUS - FREE!

The most often-asked question I get from pastors is, "The Smart Giver
is fantastic! How do we "implement" it in our church"?

Putting The Smart Giver to work in your church is as simple as falling
off a log. It's just a matter of communicating its existence to your
congregation. I have put together a second special report that I
include as a bonus entitled, "Ten Ways to Implement The Smart Giver in
Your Congregation Without Spending a Lot of Time or Money".

The practical application of the techniques I teach in The Smart Giver
by individuals can save hundreds, thousands, even millions of dollars
in unnecessary taxes and expenses. For a church, getting the word out
to its membership about The Smart Giver is the first step toward
building an endowment fund that can fund its ministries in perpetuity.
The "Ten Ways..." report gets the church pointed in the right
direction.

AND FINALLY, I EVEN HAVE A NO-RISK GUARANTEE...

100% Guarantee Try a subscription to The Smart Giver for two months.
You will receive four lessons and the bonus plus a couple other
valuable resources I throw in for free as well. If you don't see a
value, I'll refund all your money. And you can keep the lessons, the
bonus and the resources.

So, bottom line: Where's your risk? You have none.

HERE'S WHAT TO DO NEXT...

Below you will find a form where you can subscribe to The Smart Giver
right now. When you subscribe, you will have immediate access to the
first lesson and the bonus.

Yes! Please Accept My Subscription To The Smart Giver!

I understand that upon subscribing, I will have immediate access to the
first lesson and the bonus, "Ten Ways To Implement The Smart Giver In
Your Congregation Without Spending A Lot Of Time Or Money."

I understand that The Smart Giver is an 8-month subscription with a new
lesson delivered every two weeks.. I also understand that I can cancel
my subscription at any time without penalty and with no hassle.

I understand that access to all lessons will be delivered via email,
the lessons are provided online and are downloadable. Nothing will be
sent to me in the mail.

I understand that my credit card will initially be charged $29.95. I
will then be charged $29.95 each month for seven months unless I choose
to discontinue my subscription.

I understand that the techniques taught in The Smart Giver rely on U.S.
laws and that the course is only appropriate for those in the United
States.

I understand that I am protected by an unconditional 60-day guarantee.
If I am not completely satisfied, I can unsubscribe during this 60-day
period and get 100% of my money promptly and courteously refunded with
no questions asked.

Under these conditions, please accept my subscription now!

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