planned

giving

is first and foremost a service … a beautiful way of saying thank you to the people who make your organization’s work possible.
– Gordon M. Caswell, Founder

With 50 years of experience
raising billions of dollars and training thousands of staff for organizations of every size and kind …

We are the planned giving experts!

We Get This!

marketing campaigns | analytics | research | training

Caswell Zachry Grizzard (CZG) is America’s premier resource for innovative marketing strategies designed to increase planned gifts to nonprofits. We’ve provided comprehensive planned giving solutions for over 50 years, helping our clients raise billions of dollars.

Our success is driven by the philosophy that planned giving is a donor‐centered discipline. The emphasis should be on building relationships and putting the BEST INTEREST OF YOUR DONOR & HIS OR HER FAMILY FIRST. Decades of experience have proven that this donor-centric approach is not only conducive to success, it is essential.

Whether your organization has a mature planned giving program or is just beginning to talk about one, we’ve been there … and we can help.

Our Formula for Success

CZG creates highly nuanced legacy marketing that informs and inspires donors to take the critical step of creating an individual and/or family legacy that will last for generations to come.

Whether your organization has a mature planned giving program or is just beginning to talk about one, we’ve been there … and we can help.

Our service offerings include:

  • Multi-channel marketing programs that effectively allocate resources across direct mail, digital communications (both inbound and outbound, as well as social media) and print advertising.
  • Recommendations based on our own primary research under real world conditions.
  • Targeted communications based on over 50 years spent studying the attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors of planned gift donors to charities of all types and sizes.
  • Planned and legacy gift programs that actually enhance current revenue streams while providing financial security for the future of your organization.
  • Enhancing your ability to leverage the power of the professional advisor community on behalf of your mission.
  • Training for staff and leadership which translates directly into success. We don’t teach planned giving theory. We teach you how to guide donors to a place where they literally “sell themselves” on a commitment to your organization’s future, and to their own personal legacy.
  • Using donor stewardship as a way of increasing average gift size by as much as 100%.

Our Formula for Success

CZG creates highly nuanced legacy marketing that informs and inspires donors to take the critical step of creating an individual and/or family legacy that will last for generations to come.

Multi-channel marketing programs, including direct mail campaigns, digital outreach, and print ads.

Exclusive insight based on extensive primary research under real world conditions.

Access to 50 years of data on the attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors of planned gift donors.
Planned and legacy gift programs that enhance current revenue streams and secure future revenue.
Custom, practical training that directly improves performance – NOT planned giving theory.
Leverage the power of the professional advisor community with exclusive, focus-group inspired strategies.

This Team Knows Their Stuff!

With more than 100 years of combined planned giving experience and an average CZG tenure over 13 years, our leadership team has no equal in planned gifts marketing. Our executive team is hands-on with every campaign and provides all training and consulting services directly. Our key account directors have first-hand experience in non-profit marketing roles and understand the unique challenges you face.

Hank Zachry

Hank Zachry
President

Jeremy Skinner

Jeremy Skinner
Chief Operating Officer

Audie Garrote

Audie Garrote
Vice President
Account Services

Aaron Taylor

Aaron Taylor
Director of
Data Operations

Pamela Rainville
Pamela Rainville Marketing Account Manager
Bart Davis

Bart Davis
Senior Graphic Designer

Lisa Weathersbee

Lisa Weathersbee
Production Manager

What Our Clients Have to Say ...

These Case Studies are Amazing!

Increasing ROI

After allowing CZG to implement a comprehensive program, one regional division of a national disaster services organization made a comparison between planned gift results for the five years before partnering with CZG and the five years after. The previous 5 years were spent working with another agency.

Direct Marketing Impact

A recent examination of planned gift lead generation mailings for several national CZG clients has revealed significantly increased return on investment through increasing the mail universe for planned gift promotions.

Key Program Metrics

A regional division of a national human services organization partnered with CZG on a comprehensive planed gifts marketing outreach, with the goal of increasing across-the-board results. Four years into that partnership, program analysis revealed the following shifts in key metrics:

Improving Planned and Major Gift Marketing

CZG worked with a leading national charity to achieve the following:

  • Develop and implement a comprehensive planned gifts marketing program
  • Examine multiple marketing mediums for optimum

Charitable Gift Annuity Marketing

A frequent concern when an organization ramps up planned gifts marketing is what the effect of communicating with donors about planned gifts will have on annual fund cash giving. If donors are considering some type of a deferred gift, will they be less likely to respond to requests for immediate support?

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