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Rick Dunham

Rick Dunham

Founder and Chairman of Dunham+Company, a Christian nonprofit marketing and fundraising agency, and past Chair of the Giving USA Foundation.

Sep 3, 2026

16:57
Are they some of the positives that you're referring to there?
16:59
Yeah, and I think again when you go to uh as followers of christ and you look at um biblical sexuality um i think the christian community is going to support policies that um let me back up i think there's a conflation that often goes on and whether it's deliberate or not between being anti-policy around surgeries for minors and hating those people.
17:31
That's a conflation that is inaccurate.
17:34
So in fact, it's actually out of love for those people that you, and you, we see many stories beginning to surface now of young men and women, women in particular that have gone through these sex change operations that are trying to reverse it and their, their lives are destroyed forever.
17:50
So I think that kind of, that's kind of the position I think most conservative Christians would have around that.
17:57
I also think, um, it's a one step removed kind of a policy, but they put in new tax policy to encourage greater support of charitable institutions in America.
18:10
And, um, that actually part of it went into effect last year.

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23:24
Is the US coming out of some of that? And is there permission now, again, to be proud to be American, not whitewashing the mistakes of the past, but taking pride in who you are as a country?
8:57
Insane.
8:58
Some models are showing, like, 24 trillion of that will be going to other kinds of expenses.
9:05
Right now, the estimate is around 20 billion of that being given to charitable organizations, and part of our conference, part of the conversation was what do we need to do to increase that amount coming to charitable organizations? And to Josh's point, uh, leaning into planned giving right now is super important, and, um, part of my advice, um, another former chair and I did a presentation around this, uh, this week, and part of our advice was you don't need to be a legal or planned giving expert to realize estate gifts.
13:49
I think we can see growth there.
13:51
And again, just to remind people that when you look at giving to religion, that it's set up on the national taxonomy of exempt entity codes, so that means it's focused primarily, only really, on giving to houses of worship, Christian media, uh, and then support organizations around that, so denominational type of thing.
14:13
So when you think about giving to, like, to our clients, if they're, um, an international ministry, then it's gonna go under international affairs.
14:23
If it's, um, if it's a local food pantry or something like that-

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