Finally, DAFs Make Sense! Webinar

You’ve been in the meeting where someone says “it came in through their DAF,” and everyone nods. You nodded too.

Donor advised funds come up constantly now — in gift meetings, in prospect strategy, in the headlines. Somewhere along the way, understanding them became something you were just supposed to have picked up. But maybe nobody ever sat down and walked you through it, start to finish: what a DAF actually is, how the money moves, and why any of it should change the way you do your job.

That’s this hour.

We start at the beginning — nothing assumed, no jargon dropped without explanation — and follow a donor advised fund from the moment an account is opened to the moment a grant arrives at your nonprofit. Then we get to the part that matters most for your work: a DAF is both a wealth signal and a philanthropy signal, and you’ll learn exactly what it tells you about a prospect’s capacity, their intent, and how they like to give. Finally, we’ll cover how to record DAF gifts consistently in your database, so all the work you do to identify these donors doesn’t get lost at gift entry.