Outlook for Bequests and Other Planned Gifts Improves, Experts Say

Better times for charity fund raising are just ahead, two leading experts on planned giving told participants at the Partnership for Philanthropic Planning's national conference here this month.

By 2020, America will have far more millionaires than today and they will be motivated by even greater tax incentives to give to charity, said Charles Schultz, chief executive of Crescendo Interactive, a planned-giving software and consulting company, in Camarillo, Calif.

And Robert F.