Spanish Legacy Giving Consortium: Sharing Our Experience To Grow The Legacy Giving Conversation Across The Sector And Society

This session will explore the experience of Spain’s collaborative legacy giving platform, led by 27 NGOs, which helped start the conversation around gifts in wills in the Spanish nonprofit sector 20 years ago and introduced the public to a new and largely unfamiliar form of collaboration. The journey of building this joint initiative offers valuable lessons, highlights emerging trends, and provides an opportunity to challenge common myths around legacy giving.

Learning outcomes

  • Understand the value of collaboration in building confidence around legacy fundraising.
  • Explore emerging trends in legacy donor personas.
  • Identify messages that are working in legacy giving.
  • Learn how joint campaigns can grow public awareness.
  • Reflect on lessons learned and myths challenged through 20 years of collective action.

Who should attend

  • NGOs interested in promoting legacy giving.

Suggested level of participants

  • Intermediate fundraisers and leaders.

Rethinking strategy
Location: Date: 16/10/2026 Time: - Leyre Ayastuy
Upsall International (ES)