Building Relationships That Create Lasting Legacies - RDA helps nonprofits turn today's trusted relationships into lasting legacies.

A legacy isn't simply what someone leaves behind. It's also what their generosity makes possible today and for generations to come. We combine relationship-centered counsel with access to specialized philanthropic expertise—helping organizations strengthen donor relationships, recognize legacy opportunities, and bring the right resources to the table when they're needed.

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Don Spak

About

Experience That Brings Clarity

RDA founder Don Spak brings more than 55 years of business and relationship-building experience to the nonprofit world.

Throughout his career, Don has worked with business leaders, high-net-worth individuals, executives, entrepreneurs, donors, and people of influence. After decades in the for-profit sector, he dedicated nearly ten years to nonprofit development.

Today, Don serves as the principal advisor and relationship leader for RDA—helping organizations identify opportunities, strengthen relationships, clarify their message, assess their readiness for legacy development, and determine when additional expertise may be valuable.

Don’s role is to understand the objective, recognize the opportunity, and bring the right people and expertise to the table.

Your Most Important Future Donors May Already Know You

Nonprofits devote considerable time and resources to finding new donors. Yet one of their greatest opportunities may already exist among the people who know, trust, and believe in their mission.

Longtime donors. Volunteers. Board members. Families. Business leaders. Former participants. Friends of the organization.

Some may want their commitment to your mission to continue well beyond their annual giving.

The challenge is recognizing the opportunity, developing the relationship, beginning the conversation—and knowing what to do when that conversation becomes more sophisticated.

That’s where RDA can help.

Our Services

LEGACY GIVING ASSESSMENTS

EXPLORE LEGACY GIVING & OPPORTUNITY

Many nonprofits know they should be developing legacy support. Far fewer know whether they are truly prepared—or how much opportunity may already exist within relationships they have spent years, sometimes decades, building.

The RDA Legacy Giving & Assessment provides an independent, candid evaluation of your organization’s donor relationships, messaging, leadership commitment, development culture, legacy capabilities, and professional resources.

Through confidential conversations with selected stakeholders, RDA helps identify opportunities and the next steps to secure them.

The result isn’t another fundraising plan. It’s a practical roadmap for building the relationships, confidence, organizational readiness, and resources needed to create meaningful long-term legacy support.

Relationships First. Expertise When Needed.

One Relationship. A Network of Possibilities.

Meaningful philanthropy can become complex.

A donor’s desire to make a lasting philanthropic impact may eventually involve charitable planning, estate planning, tax considerations, insurance strategies, wealth preservation, complex assets, endowments, family considerations, or other specialized issues.

No one person should pretend to be an expert in all of them.

RDA takes a different approach.

We begin with the relationship. Then we bring the right expertise to the table.

Through the RDA Resource Network, we bring together experienced independent professionals in areas such as:

Planned & Legacy Giving

Helping organizations identify and develop opportunities for meaningful future gifts, while providing education and specialized guidance as needed.

Charitable & Financial Strategies

Exploring appropriate approaches when philanthropy intersects with financial, tax, insurance, or wealth considerations.

Community Foundations

Providing charitable resources and expertise that can help donors and families structure their giving, establish funds and endowments, and pursue long-term philanthropic goals.

Estate & Professional Counsel

Working collaboratively with attorneys, CPAs, financial advisors, and other professionals when their expertise is required.

Whenever possible, RDA also works collaboratively with the donor’s existing professional advisors, respecting the relationships and counsel they already trust.

The value isn’t that one person knows everything. It’s knowing what needs to be done and bringing the right people together to accomplish it.

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