“A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
Ezekiel 36 · 26
A New Gift™ Center exists to help mission builders, fundraisers, and philanthropists do the work of building, funding, and sustaining Catholic mission as a path to holiness — received, each day, as a new gift. Before it is a place to give, it is a place to receive: God’s love, sound formation, and the company of others answering the same call.
Our name echoes God’s promise through the prophet Ezekiel: “A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you” (Ezekiel 36:26) — each day a new beginning, received and returned through our generosity.
Read Why We Exist →This is not self-improvement. It is interior renewal. From a renewed heart, generosity, witness, and service begin to overflow. Philanthropy, rightly ordered, becomes the fruit of a gift first received.
That conviction shapes the work.
For entrepreneurs and philanthropists, we coach and walk alongside you as you discern how to share, invest, and steward resources in ways ordered toward the good of the other.
For fundraisers and development professionals, we coach and accompany you in the sacred trust of your work — helping you shape conversations, campaigns, and stewardship practices that respect the dignity of the mission, the beneficiary, and the benefactor.
For nonprofit leaders and board members, we coach and consult with you to build organizations where governance, mission, management, and generosity work in concert. The result is an organization that serves with integrity, becomes worthy of the trust placed in it, and ensures that those it serves receive what they need to thrive.
Founder · Chief Philanthropy Coach
A New Gift Center is led by Valerie Mullen Pletcher, a fundraising and philanthropy coach with decades of experience working with philanthropists, nonprofit organizations, and development professionals — integrating mission, coaching, and development for the sake of the giver and the receiver.
From a renewed heart, generosity, witness, and service begin to overflow. Philanthropy, rightly ordered, becomes the fruit of a gift first received. That conviction shapes the work.
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Thank you to the generous priests and religious, loving family, friends, beneficiaries, missionaries, philanthropists, teachers, colleagues, and mentors who have inspired this work — you have planted the seeds of Love.
With special gratitude to Fred Rogers, Bill Mumma, Fr. Godfred Appiah-Marfo, and Mary C. Sweeney.