Your donors will reward you for reading this free research.
Develop effective donor-centred fundraising strategies that raise more money through gifts in wills and estate plans, with our extensive literature review into legacy giving.
Learn everything that research can tell us about legacy giving.

With legacy giving on the rise across the world, there is a significant opportunity for charitable organisations to engage their donors in a conversation about what they want to pass on to future generations. Yet so many say they lack the knowledge, tools and confidence to do that well.
At Legacy Voice have a vision to inspire a million people to leave gifts to a charitable cause in their will, and leave the world a better place. To do that, we aim to resource and support any organisation wanting to talk to their donors about legacy giving.
So we commissioned a major literature review (a world’s first actually), and asked some of the leading academics in fundraising to pull together everything that research can tell us about legacy giving.
The result is an in depth report, compiled from more than 150 papers across fundraising, marketing, sociology, psychology and behavioural economics. And we’re making this available to the not-for-profit sector completely free of charge (because we’re lovely like that).
Of course, if you need any help putting this into action you know where to find us.
Meet the researchers
In partnership with leading legacy and philanthropy researchers at the University of Plymouth.
In this report you will learn
The Building Blocks of Great Legacy Fundraising
Services to grow your legacy giving income.
Most people have a nagging voice in their heads throughout their working life. ‘What’s all this for?’ ‘I wish my job had more meaning’, ‘I must try harder.’ As old age approaches this voice gets louder and it’s at this point that great fundraising can provide the answers. We call this voice the Legacy Voice, and truly donor-centred legacy fundraising answers all its questions.