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title: FreeWill | Planned Giving Certificate
description: FreeWill's Planned Giving Certificate program is a great way to accelerate your planned giving journey with FreeWill! Learn the basics, familiarize yourself with the FreeWill tools, and explore best practices for donor conversations, proactive marketing, and donor stewardship.
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## Planned Giving Certificate

##### **5 COURSES, AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND**

Available exclusively to current FreeWill partners, the Planned Giving Certificate is the perfect place to begin your planned giving journey with FreeWill.

- Learn the basics of the most common types of planned gifts
- Explore best practices for proactive marketing, donor prospecting and conversations, and planned gift stewardship
- Familiarize yourself with the FreeWill products
- Get the encouragement and actionable tips you need to feel confident introducing planned giving to your donors

This curriculum is offered at no additional cost. Anyone on your team - or your whole team - may participate!

 

**Format: **5 recorded courses, plus a final online quiz

**CFRE: **Eligible for 5.0 continuing education credits

**LinkedIn: **Add the certificate to your LinkedIn profile!

**Presenter:** Lauren Winther-Hansen, FreeWill's Nonprofit Training Lead

 

**For those already in progress: Our Certificate curriculum moved to a new course player.**

**Please email [training@freewill.com](mailto:training@freewill.com) to be granted access to the courses you've yet to complete.**

 

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[➡️. Already have access? Return to the new course player here.](https://freewill-learning.thinkific.com/users/sign_in)

 

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## What Our Partners Say

##### Director of Planned Giving

I enjoyed this presentation so thoroughly. I took copious notes even though I knew the presentation was going to be shared afterwards, because I felt so strongly about the importance of the info being shared.

##### Fundraising Specialist

These sessions feel more like coaching sessions than webinars. Concise and actionable.

##### Development Associate

I came out of the training with concrete ideas to bring back to others at my organization and actionable ways to implement these ideas.

##### Donor Relations Manager

Wow, this was beyond helpful! Packed with relevant, applicable, and professional advice for sometimes challenging conversations around planned giving. As always, Lauren was very clear, concise, and encouraging!

##### Stewardship Coordinator

I currently work in a fully developed stewardship department, and Lauren hit everything. She explains everything very well.

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