Turn alumni loyalty into lasting support.
Your alumni already give their time, their name, and their pride to your institution. LotusGiving makes it just as easy for them to include you in their will.
Documented intent
$4.2M
Alumni participation
24%
Bequests confirmed
182
Recent class activity
LIVE UPDATES$842,000
$215,500
$12,400
Scholarship match
The Henderson Family Challenge has been unlocked.
Alumni engagement doesn't stop at graduation, and neither should your legacy program.
Universities already have a built-in, lifelong relationship with a large, identifiable donor base. The gap isn't alumni goodwill. It's that most planned-giving programs still rely on a phone call to a gift officer or a PDF buried on page six of your site.
Your alumni base is large, but your gift-planning staff usually isn't.
LotusGiving extends your team's reach without adding headcount. Alumni get a guided, self-serve path that runs whether or not a gift officer is on the call.
Leave Northfield better than you found it.
Write a free, legally valid will and include the college, a school, or a scholarship fund.
Start my will — freeClass identity matters.
Alumni give differently depending on class year, affinity group, or program. Your legacy-giving outreach should be able to reflect that, down to the gift type that fits their stage of life.
Find the gift that fits your plans.
Answer three questions and see the giving options that match your class year, assets, and timeline.
Start my free willMake my plans knownAdvancement offices already run on data.
Legacy-giving activity should show up alongside the rest of your alumni and donor records, not live in a separate silo your team has to reconcile by hand.
Northfield University Advancement
Last 90 daysYou have the contacts, now you need actionable next steps.
Your alumni are already identifiable, already engaged, already proud of your name. Here's what changes once that pride has somewhere to become a legacy gift.
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Of personal giving to higher education comes from bequests
Per CASE's FY2025 Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) survey of 670 US institutions. Bequests aren't a marginal source of higher-ed funding anymore. They're becoming one of the largest single components of personal giving to universities.
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Median year-over-year increase in new bequest intentions
Across reporting institutions, FY2025. Alumni are actively adding institutions to their estate plans right now. The opportunity isn't generating more intent; it's giving that intent an easy, guided path to completion.
How LotusGiving scales planned giving
Everything an advancement office needs to run a modern legacy program: the alumni-facing experience, the documents behind it, and the reporting your leadership expects.
Branded alumni experience
Your university's name, colors, and story throughout.
- A will alumni finish in 15–20 minutes
- Class-year and school-specific landing pages
- Secure portal alumni can return to anytime
Gift tracking & reporting
See which alumni have included your institution, filterable by class year or program where that data exists, so your team can steward accordingly.
- Intentions tied to alumni records
- Expectancy value by class year and school
- Exportable reporting for advancement leadership
Legacy society support
Identify and recognize alumni who've included you, and invite them into your existing legacy or heritage society without manual follow-up.
- Heritage society roster kept current
- Reunion-weekend invitation templates
- Public recognition wall for named alumni
Marketing support built for higher ed
Messaging and email templates written for alumni audiences: reunion campaigns, class-year outreach, and giving-day integration.
- Reunion campaign emails
- Class-year segmented outreach
- Giving-day landing copy
- Print-ready QR mailers
Affordable for institutions of any size
From large research universities to small private colleges, priced for what your advancement office actually has to spend.
- Free will builder for alumni
- No per-document charges
- Unlimited advancement users
- Secure storage and edits included
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can import records with a CSV file or connect LotusGiving to the tools your advancement team already uses, so donor activity flows back to your system of record.
Reporting can reflect whatever alumni data your team already collects and shares through setup.
No. LotusGiving handles the self-serve, digital-first layer of planned giving. We support your gift officers by surfacing leads and removing friction for alumni who wouldn't otherwise reach out directly.
