This book is intended for several 1. Front line financial, tax and legal advisors who have clients whose assets go well beyond cash and public securities. 2. Nonprofit gift fundraisers in major gifts, planned gifts, and principal gifts whose donors wish to give assets other than cash. 3. Technical Lawyers, accountants, and back office staff at charities and financial institutions charged with determining how an asset may be used for a philanthropic purpose, or determining whether that asset should be accepted as a gift.