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Hi everyone Please find below details of a legacy marketing opportunity at The Salvation Army. If anyone is interested please contact The Salvation Army on ...
Hi everyone, Further to my recent post, please note that the salary for the above position is £36,459, not £36,460 as previously advertised. Regards Clair...
Dear all, I thought you may be interested to learn about The Goodwill Partnership - a scheme we are inviting charities to join. Your involvement is welcomed on...
Once again I do not believe that an email group, sharing expertise and asking questions which challenge and inform us all, should be used as a sales tool. Such...
Dear Richard, Thank you for your response to my posting, which I read with interest. I posted merely to advise legacy marketing professionals of a partnership...
Good morning to you all  When this group was first established it was certainly made clear to me as a consultant that I would not use this group as a 'means...
Hello all, Having been closely studying the nature of gratitude during the last week, and its effect on me and others, I have to say that I am profoundly...
Lynne Nesbit
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Jul 8, 2009 1:07 pm
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As a freelance legacy fundraiser, I say "Hear! Hear!" to Lynne, Leslie and Richard's comments. People who use Twitter as a sales pitch quickly lose their...
Hi Graham, I am new on here and apologise if I have put any backs up by mentioning this. It certainly was not the intention! Having flicked through a number of...
fair enough, but how many consultants direct you to their website, display their logo on their e mail?. I`m fairly relaxed over one or two promoting their...
Dear Membership, Forgive my silence during today's debate but I have been out of the office. Looking through the Emails from today I feel the group has ...
Iain McAndrew
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Jul 9, 2009 8:25 am
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Hi  Can anyone help with a question about who and how to thank / acknowledge / recognise gifts in wills, where the executors include members of the family or...
Julie, Your approach is spot on - so often we fail to close the loop in accepting a legacy gift - it is after all a donation and one would & should always...
Iain McAndrew
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Jul 10, 2009 1:25 pm
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Hi Julie I would always advocate building a relationship with friends and family. They could well be your warmest prospects, they are also your biggest risk in...
Hi everyone, I agree with the advice, and I always try to find the executor and write to them or ask the solicitor if they would be happy to pass on a letter. ...
Hi all, I've recently been lucky enough to receive a list of major donor prospects from a colleague - to see if I would like to approach them about legacies. ...
Hi Ashley, I have a few ideas. My current role at NDCS is split between major gifts and legacies. I manage both the 1-2-1 on the MD side and the 1-2-many on...
Hi Ashley, In my experience of managing direct communications to existing donors (and customers), a well designed, personalised mailing to each usually yields...
Hi Ashley  Lucky guy - being given the list of major donors to approach. Obviously the last thing you want to do is alienate or upset them in any way. Two...
Hi Ashley et al,
If you are in the fortunate position where your MD's are meeting together regularly and possibly have their own dedicated publications your...
Thanks to all the legacy crew for helping me with this issue. I'm glad to know I get it right some of the time and am not a numpty! Cheers Julie ... From:...
Hi All, Delighted to see a lively debate being had with regard to MD's - just to flag the October meeting will be focusing o on this area. Watch out for ...
Iain McAndrew
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Jul 13, 2009 12:05 pm
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Hi everyone, The next LMG session (which will be focussing on the subject of MD's) is scheduled for 1st October, 2-5pm at Mencap (Golden Lane, EC1Y 0RT). We...
Hi Ashley, Our research shows that major donors hate legacy mailings because it is "not a method of communication which shows that they are a special category"...
Dear all I have completed my legacy strategy hooray.... thank you to everyone who replied to my previous posting. I have been asked to provide a bit more ...
Sanita.Guddu@...
Jul 13, 2009 3:05 pm
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I will be out of the office starting 13/07/2009 and will not return until 15/07/2009. I am now out of the office, but can be contacted on my mobile 07734...
Sanita.Guddu@...
Jul 13, 2009 6:12 pm
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Hello Does anyone have experience in setting up or running endowment funds, either for major donors or legators? I've had a call from a supporter enquiring...
Hi all, I've been tasked out of the blue with organising some legacy telemarketing, but don't really know where to start. Can anyone recommend somewhere where...
Dear all Yep me again. Just wondering if anybody uses a specific package/software to show legacies that have come in, how they have been spent with the ability...
