Five Steps to Improving Your Gift Agreements

Jennifer M Carroll, JD

February 18, 2020

Strategies to ensure your gift agreements work for both your donors and your organization. Low-cost tools to help manage gift agreements. Good agreements start with good gifts.

Jenny Carroll manages the gift documentation process for the University of Illinois Foundation, which supports all three campuses of the University of Illinois system. UIF completes around 500 gift agreements each year. She played an active role in the establishment of the Gift Agreement Writers and Approvers Cohort, a group of professionals from over 30 top-tier research universities that focus on improving the quality of and processes surrounding gift documentation.