About Us

Magnolia State Charitable Gift Planners' Council (MSCGP) was founded in 2025 as Mississippi's only charitable gift planning professional resource. MSCGP is comprised of fundraising professionals, attorneys, CPAs, and financial professionals eager to broaden their knowledge by gathering together to discuss issues critical to charitable gift planning. MSCGP aims to create a network of professionals across these industries to demystify gift planning for professionals and the public alike.

MSCGP is an affiliate council of the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners (CGP), the professional association for those whose work involves developing, marketing, administering and advising charitable planned gifts. 

Originally created in 1988 as the National Committee on Planned Giving (NCPG), the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners (CGP) is a 501(c)(3) public charity whose mission is to help people and organizations create charitable giving experiences that are the most meaningful in achieving both charitable mission and the philanthropic, financial, family and personal goals of the donor.

CGP achieves its mission through research, education, advocacy, community dialogue and the setting of standards and best practices in philanthropic planning. CGP strives to engage all constituents in the charitable gift planning process: planned giving and major gifts professionals, nonprofit managers and trustees, financial and estate planners, trust managers and administrators.