Nicola Lawrence, CFRE® currently serves as the Director of Planned Giving for Children’s Health. Born and raised in Northern England, Nicola attended Wigan College, the University of Leicester, York St Johns and Dundee University, specializing in business and finance and nonprofit leadership. She has made Texas home since the 1990s. Over the last two decades, Nicola has led sustainability and legacy-based giving at a variety of nonprofits, both in the US and internationally, that include community-based health care, higher education and social service organizations. Bringing digital and print mediums together, Nicola is an award-winning multi-channel planned giving marketer while never forgetting that this kind of philanthropy requires careful personal attention to each donor’s current financial wellbeing while assisting them in building their charitable legacy.