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Frank Minton President, PGS Division Frank Minton is president of Planned Giving Services, a division of PG Calc Incorporated, of Seattle, Washington, a planned giving consulting firm serving clients in the U.S. and Canada. The firm specializes in starting and operating planned giving and gift annuity programs, gift annuity state certifications, seminars, and assistance with various types of gifts. Before entering consulting in January 1991, he spent ten and one-half years with the University of Washington, where he served as Director of Planned Giving and Executive Director of Development. Previously he served as Senior Estate Planning Officer and Field Director at Northwestern University, and was for six years a professor at Muskingum College in Ohio. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. Dr. Minton has served both as conference chair and president of the National Committee on Planned Giving, a nationwide organization of gift planning professionals. In 1992 he received its Distinguished Service Award, and he currently serves on its Ethics Committee. He is Chair of the American Council on Gift Annuities and is an expert on state regulatory issues. He has also received a CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) Distinguished Service Award, the David Donaldson Distinguished Service Award from the Planned Giving Group of New England, and he was the first recipient of the Outstanding Development Officer Award from the Northwest Development Officers Association. He is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences, has authored many booklets and articles on planned giving topics, and is co-author of Planned Giving for Canadians (Second Edition, 1997) and the principal author of Charitable Gift Annuities: The Complete Resource Manual. A number of his presentations have been to Canadian audiences, and in 1997, he received the Friend of the Canadian Association of Gift Planners award. He is on the advisory board of Planned Giving Today, and is a member of the Seattle Estate Planning Council and the Washington Planned Giving Council. | 