A product of The Fundraising Co.
Continuo
Legacy giving for parishes, schools, and mission-driven organizations, on your calendar and timeline.
If legacy giving keeps slipping down your list, Continuo gives you draft materials and a schedule to work from. You choose when the invitation fits your community.
Where the invitation lands in a year
- Parishes
- All Souls, Nov 2Lent and EasterParish feast day
- Schools
- Grandparents DayReunion weekendFounders Day
- Organizations
- Founding anniversaryYear-end letterGiving day
Examples. Each organization sets its own moments.
Continuo: the line that keeps playing under the melody.
How it runs
A draft and a plan for your office
Start with draft materials, then adapt them to your organization. Your leader reviews, approves, and signs each piece before it goes out.
Where this stands today. Continuo ships as the November kit, and we prepare it with you by hand. The six steps below are what we are building through 2027. Founding organizations receive each one as it lands.
01
Import
Upload a directory, alumni, or donor export from the system you already use, or a spreadsheet. Years of faithful giving flag who to invite. No wealth screening.
02
Calendar
Touchpoints land on the moments your people already keep: the liturgical year, the school year, or your organization's own anniversaries.
03
Compose
Bulletin and newsletter inserts, announcements, a leader's letter, a three-part mail series, and email, written in your name and voice.
04
Capture
One card your people return, and for schools and organizations the same fields as a web form: “I have remembered you in my plans.” Each response enrolls the person in your legacy society.
05
Steward
A welcome letter for your leader to sign, ready within a week of each card, then an annual gathering and anniversary notes.
06
Report
Intentions recorded, estimated future value, and a clean handoff file for your foundation or gift planning partner.
Free · November 2026
The November remembrance kit
For some communities, November offers a time to talk about legacy giving alongside All Souls, Veterans Day, or Thanksgiving. Choose an occasion that makes sense for your donors.
Ask about current kit availability and timing before planning your bulletin, newsletter, or mailing. We will confirm what is available and when it can be sent.
If you need more time, start with an approved announcement and intention cards, then schedule the mailing for later. Allow time for your leadership, board, or other required reviewers to approve the materials. Parishes may also need diocesan review.
Request the kitIn the kit
- A week-by-week schedule of who does what
- A checklist of what to clear before you mail
- Bulletin or newsletter insert
- 90-second announcement for Mass, assembly, or an event
- Letter from your pastor, head of school, or director
- Legacy intention card
- Legacy society welcome letter
Guardrails
What stays with you
Built on the Invitation Framework™: a gift remains voluntary, and your role is to extend a thoughtful invitation each person is free to answer.
- Continuo records intentions. Gifts, payments, and wills are handled by you, your foundation, and each donor's own attorney.
- The kit is yours. It arrives as Word files you keep and edit, and nothing about your people is stored with us today.
- Each solicitation letter tells people to work with their own attorney, and nothing in the kit is legal or tax advice.
- Giving history helps identify people to invite. Continuo does no wealth screening and ranks no one by net worth.
- Your leader approves every piece before it reaches a pew, a mailbox, or an inbox.
Founding organizations
Ten founding organizations for Lent 2027
The November kit is free to anyone who asks, this year and without conditions. The founding seats are for Lent 2027, with time to plan the invitation and seek the approvals your organization requires. Ask us how that schedule would fit your school, parish, or nonprofit.
We talk in January, you decide by early February, and you prepare to share the invitation during Lent. Founders shape the calendar packs as we build them, and pay nothing through 2027 Lent. After that it carries a price, which founders see in writing before they decide. No one is billed without saying yes.
Founders report what they saw. Those who agree may have their results, without names, included in a benchmark we hope to publish, and we ask in writing first.
Ask about a founding seatAsk
Tell us where you are
Tell us about your organization and what you want to do. Optional details help us prepare for the conversation.