Sharing new features in your Portal and celebrating a milestone for estate planning!

NEWSLETTER

VOL.5 ISSUE 4


Spring into action with exciting updates to your Portal, a new content delivery process, and a milestone landmark!

Level up your strategy with these five new updates to Partner Portal

Partner Portal is your go-to hub for insights, learning, and creativity, and today, we’re thrilled to announce five new enhancements that will help you drive your fundraising strategy forward.


The next generation of our AI-powered writing tool has landed

Meet William, the next generation of our AI writing tool—available exclusively to partners in Portal. William is purpose-built for nonprofit fundraisers and marketers with research-backed best practices for donor solicitations and stewardship. As a supplement to your FreeWill campaign content, William can help you quickly craft personalized email appeals, social media posts, outreach calendars, and so much more.


Customize your giving tools in real time

Ever wanted to make quick changes to your giving tools, such as swapping out an image or updating text? No need to email your Strategist when you want to make a change. You can now make instant updates to your branded landing pages with the new Customizations panel in Partner Portal. Check out a quick tutorial video or try it for yourself in Partner Portal!


Enrich your donor data with wealth screening through DonorSearch

We’ve expanded access to our direct integration with DonorSearch, a leading wealth screening tool, to all Planned Giving Suite Partners. If your donors are a match in DonorSearch’s database, you will have access to key attributes such as giving capacity and largest known gift to help you uncover the hidden potential of some of your most philanthropic FreeWill donors. Check out your contact list to find your DonorSearch matches (indicated with an icon).


Learn more about your donors’ giving preferences with a Planned Giving Interest Survey

Donor surveys are helpful tools in surfacing new leads or existing bequest commitments. To get you started on your next survey, we’ve got a new guide in the Partner Resource Hub that contains everything you need to launch, including a recommended outreach plan, a sample survey, and follow-up strategies to effectively engage surveyed donors.


Access your FreeWill Campaign Templates in the Marketing Library

The Print Marketing Library has already outgrown its name, as we're constantly adding new resources to supercharge your campaigns. You can now head to the Marketing Library to find customizable templates for your FreeWill campaigns—including social graphics and email headers.

We’re hosting a Portalpalooza–and you’re invited!

With all of these changes to Portal, you might wonder where to start and how to embed these new powerful features into your workflow. That’s why our incredible Nonprofit Training Lead, Lauren Winther-Hansen, is leading Portalpalooza: a series of trainings to help you get the most out of these new features. We hope you’ll join us for one (or all) of these trainings to learn how Portal will help you become a more efficient and effective fundraiser — served with a side of FreeWill Fun!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM!

Tuesday, April 23 at 1:30 PM ET
Join Co-CEO Patrick Schmitt to learn best practices for using our new AI-powered writing tool, William. Don your party hats (and brandish your quills!) as we celebrate both the arrival of FreeWill’s William and the birthday of our second favorite William — Shakespeare.

→ Register here

MARKETING LIBRARY BOOK CLUB

Wednesday, May 1 at 1:30 PM ET

Get a step-by-step overview of how to customize our templates in this interactive training with a Book Club-themed twist. You’ll also get a sneak preview of some of the digital assets we have coming soon. And the best part of this Book Club? No pre-reading is required!
→ Register here

DETECTIVE ACADEMY ESCAPE ROOM: DONORSEARCH!

Thursday, May 2 at 1:00 PM ET
Get a clue on how to take advantage of Portal’s direct integration with DonorSearch. Filled with helpful tips on how to uncover hidden gems in your data, this training will be so useful, you won’t want to escape!

→ Register here

PAINT-N-SIP: CUSTOMIZATIONS

Tuesday, May 7 at 1:00 PM ET

Grab a mocktail and get ready to paint — we mean, customize — your FreeWill tools. By the end of this interactive session, you’ll be ready to swap out an image or update your color scheme whenever you need.
→ Register here

SURVEY SAYS!

Thursday, May 9 at 1:30 PM ET
How well do you know your donors? Survey says: there’s always room to learn more! Join this session to find out how our new Donor Survey template can uncover new planned giving leads and help you learn more about your donors’ giving preferences.

→ Register here

Process Update: Content Delivery

Starting on Monday, April 15th, you will be receiving your requested custom FreeWill content through a shared folder. This means a couple of changes to your partnership experience:

  • You will receive a notification via email from FreeWill that your content has been uploaded to the folder and is available for viewing. Content will no longer come from your Strategist.

  • The notification will include a link to your organization’s private Google folder. You will have view-only access to the files and can download them as a PDF or Microsoft Word file.

  • If you have any edits or comments about the Content, please contact your Strategist.

We’re excited to make your content delivery experience more seamless and welcome any feedback about this process change.

Do you send newsletters as part of your planned giving strategy? We’d love to hear about it!

Please take our brief survey to share your thoughts about your current process for sending newsletters related to planned giving. Thank you!

FreeWill has achieved a new milestone! More than one million people throughout the country have used our platform to create their wills. That’s one million more individuals who now have an estate plan that aligns with their wishes and values, supporting the people and causes they love.

Our nonprofit partners like you are an important part of breaking financial and legal barriers to estate planning so more people can document important choices that safeguard their families and assets. Thank you for helping us achieve this milestone!

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