About the Legacy Society

Legacy Society members show their support by making a planned gift—an important and meaningful way to help sustain and strengthen HMML now and into the future.

Each legacy gift helps ensure that HMML’s mission to preserve and share the world’s handwritten heritage endures for generations to come.

Ways to Give

Legacy gifts offer flexibility to align your philanthropic goals with your financial plans. Examples include:

• Bequest in your will or trust.
• Beneficiary designation on a retirement account, life insurance policy, or donor-advised fund
• Charitable gift annuity or trust providing lifetime income to you or your loved ones

Our team can work with you and your advisor to explore options that best reflect your legacy and values. To learn more please contact:

Katrina P. Schlude
Director of Advancement
kschlude001@hmml.org
320-363-2095

Why Join

• Sustain the Mission. Your gift helps ensure that HMML’s work of preservation and global access to manuscripts continues for generations.
• Create a Lasting Impact. Legacy gifts provide enduring support that strengthens HMML’s future stability and reach.
• Honor What Matters to You. A planned gift lets you align your values with a lasting contribution to scholarship, culture, and humanity.
• Stay Engaged. Members receive special communications, invitations to events, and opportunities to see how their generosity shapes HMML’s work worldwide.

“We’ve made HMML part of our estate plan because its work preserving culture and history matters deeply to us. The Legacy Society connects us to that purpose—today and for generations to come.”