Neil Dengler, director of the Office of Gift Planning in UB’s Division of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement, has been elected president of the WNY Planned Giving Consortium for 2016.

The consortium, founded in Buffalo in 1993, is the local council of the Partnership for Philanthropic Planning, headquartered in Indianapolis. It brings together members of the not-for-profit and professional advisory communities to learn about the design and administration of deferred charitable giving.