LGL Pro Tip: 5 ideas on sharing public links of documents

Want to share documents with your constituents but struggling to find an easy way to do that in LGL? Then we think you’re going to love a new feature shared in the April 2025 LGL Release Notes: Making a document file stored in your LGL account accessible to your email recipients via a public link.

Curious about different ways you can use this new feature? Below are a few ideas we came up with. We’d love for you to share yours, too! Post them to our LGL user community with the hashtag #publiclinkideas.

Five ideas for sharing a public link of a document stored in LGL

• Link to your organization’s case statement in your next solicitation email

• Share your organization’s Wish List in your donor e-newsletters

• Link off to your volunteer job description from your volunteer application form

• Share a document outlining sponsorship levels and benefits when you reach out to your prospective event sponsors via email

• Send an email with a link to your organization’s full annual report by providing a clickable image (see an example email below)

How to create a public link in LGL

The first step in creating a public link is to upload a document to LGL. (Note that you can upload any kind of file,  including PDFs, video files, image files, spreadsheets, and more, as long as it is under 10MB in size.)

Once the document is uploaded, simply toggle the “Public” switch. Then click the “Copy public link” button and paste the link into your email (or anywhere you’d like to share it).

When your recipients click the link, they’ll be able to view the document and download it (as long as they can download via their web browser).

A quick note about why LGL doesn’t allow attachments to emails (except for email acknowledgments)

Attachments and embedded content can slow down email delivery or pose a red flag to security software, which may block the emails altogether.