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This video was taken at the United Way Lakeshore charity concert at the Fruenthal Theater in Muskegon, Michigan. Bob Scolnik is a philanthropist from the Muskegon area who holds benefit concerts and other events both promoting western Michigan and the surrounding Muskegon area along with The United Way Lakeshore.
College of Charleston’s Dance Marathon raised a record 000 for the Children’s Miracle Network. The event, in its fourth year, is the College’s largest philanthropic event.
Planned giving, charity bequests and the importance of including nonprofit organizations as beneficiaries of wills, insurance policies and retirement plans are the topics of discussion in this Comcast Focus television segment featuring Robert Kass, Co-Chair of Leave a Legacy Southeast Michigan. Kass also discusses the organizations speakers bureau, which includes 30 professionals available to explain to nonprofit organization how they can benefit from spreading the word about planned giving.LEAVE A LEGACY® Southeast Michigan is a nine-county-wide campaign encouraging people to name non-profit organizations in their wills. The campaign, which is driven by the efforts of volunteers from non-profit groups, and financial, estate planning and law firms, is sponsored by the Planned Giving Roundtable of Southeast Michigan — a group of professionals in legal, financial, and allied fields as well as fundraising professionals whose focus is planned giving. The campaign resulted from a growing concern for non-profit organizations, who because of increasingly less government funding, are fighting to exist. And the problem worsens because this forces non-profit groups to rely more on public support; however, although 81.5% of people in Southeast Michigan give annually, only 2.8% leave a charitable bequest at death. LEAVE A LEGACY is addressing this problem by educating people about the importance of planned gifts for the charities we depend on and support. For more information visit …