A NEW GIFT A New Gift™ Centerfor Catholic Philanthropy and Nonprofit Excellence

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You’re in the right place.

Begin with God. Order everything else around Him.

A New Gift Center is dedicated to Catholic philanthropy, fundraising coaching, formation, and nonprofit excellence — four works gathered around a single, quiet center of prayer. Seek first the Kingdom, and the rest finds its rightful order.

See how it fits together Start at the center

“But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.”

Matthew 6:33

What you’ll receive here

A center, not a firm.

A place for rightly ordered philanthropy, carried out with excellence. Here nonprofits, their leaders and fundraisers, and the philanthropists who support them find personal guidance, formation, and each other.

Philanthropists

Individuals, families, and foundations who give

What you’ll receive

  • Clarity about where and how to give
  • A giving plan that reflects your faith and priorities
  • Trusted Catholic partners to help carry it out

Through

  • Philanthropy coaching: discernment and rightly ordered giving
  • Access to trusted experts in planned giving and in setting up giving vehicles: private foundations, donor-advised funds, and trusts
  • Group retreats for philanthropists

Mission Leaders & Volunteers

Executive directors, staff, and boards

What you’ll receive

  • A board and staff with clear roles who work well together
  • Policies and practices that meet national standards
  • A path to the Standards for Excellence® Seal, which shows donors and funders your organization is well run

Through

  • Nonprofit excellence coaching
  • Stewardship: caring well for the people, gifts, and resources entrusted to your mission
  • Nonprofit Standards for Excellence®: mission, governance, ethics, finance and operations, fundraising, and public engagement

Mission Fundraisers

Development staff and volunteers who ask for gifts

What you’ll receive

  • A fundraising plan you can manage and measure
  • Fundraising practiced as ministry, not pressure
  • A coach in your corner, so you are not doing it alone

Through

  • Fundraising management
  • Donor stewardship: thanking, reporting to, and keeping faith with those who give
  • Fundraising coaching, including A Rightly Ordered Approach to major gifts

For Catholic and faith-led organizations of every size

Nonprofit Standards for Excellence®

The Standards for Excellence are a national code of ethics and accountability for nonprofits: a list of proven practices for running an organization well. We help Catholic and faith-led organizations apply them in a way that fits their mission and their size.

Online training, shaped to your organization's needs, with ongoing accompaniment across multiple sessions.

How it helps your mission and your fundraising

  • A clear picture of how effective your organization is, and where it needs work
  • Better decisions, and a board that knows its role and performs it
  • The trust of donors and the public, which every gift depends on
  • Recognition listed on the Standards for Excellence Institute website and your GuideStar profile
Sign up for a Standards assessment Ask about Standards education

The six areas of the Code

  • Mission, Strategy, and Evaluation
  • Leadership: Board, Staff, and Volunteers
  • Ethics and Legal
  • Finance and Operations
  • Resource Development
  • Public Awareness, Engagement, and Advocacy

How it works

  1. Self-assessment. We walk through the free Standards self-assessment together.
  2. Training and accompaniment. Online sessions shaped to your needs, and ongoing guidance as your board and staff put the missing practices and policies in place.
  3. Application. You apply for Standards Basics Recognition, reviewed by the Institute's experts.
  4. Recognition, and beyond. Once approved, your organization is recognized. When you are ready, the full Seal of Excellence is the next step.

Led by Valerie Pletcher, CFRE, Founder and Chief Coach of A New Gift Center and a Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant

For everyone

Those who spend themselves for mission need to be fed too.

Group retreats

Time away to pray and discern before acting.

Online community groups

Gather with others doing the same work, wherever you are.

Educators and formation

Access to top educators, training, and formation resources.

For Catholic professionals serving nonprofits

Come to the Table

Consultants, trainers, planned giving and financial advisors, attorneys, and other experts who serve Catholic missions.

What you’ll receive

  • A community of Catholic peers who share your work and your faith
  • Trust with the philanthropists, leaders, and fundraisers you are called to serve
  • A way to offer your gifts through the Center's retreats, training, and guidance

Tell us who you are and how you'd like to serve. If you're ready to formally offer your services, we'll follow up with a short intake. Every partner is prayerfully discerned.

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Request a retreat or conversation

Let’s begin with a conversation.

Rightly Ordered

One center, four works.

At the heart is a spiritual retreat center. Around it, ordered in relation to it, are the four works of A New Gift. Click a ring to explore each work.

01 Philanthropy Guidance 02 Management Excellence 03 Fundraising as Ministry 04 The Store Pro bono Start with God Spiritual Center

After Saint Hildegard von Bingen — all things ordered in concentric relation to the divine center.

Explore each work.

THE HUBThe CenterA spiritual retreat center 01PhilanthropyCatholic Philanthropy Guidance 02ManagementNonprofit Management Excellence 03FundraisingCatholic Fundraising as Ministry 04The StoreYour purchase makes pro bono work possible

Come and see.

Whether you are discerning a gift, leading a ministry, raising support, running a business, or wondering where you fit — we'd be glad to welcome you in.

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