Connected for Good: A Gameplan for a generous life

Are you looking for ways to make change that’s important to you, rather than just responding to an endless stream of appeals and campaigns? Are you experiencing donor fatigue? Are you weary of fundraising that looks and feels like professionalRead more…

Best Missions Books 2015

Mobilizers recommend this year’s “must reads” Last year’s vote for best mobilization books produced some clear favorites. This year fewer people submitted titles, and only one book was nominated by more than one person. Because the whole list was worthwhile,Read more…

European Generosity Consultation 2016

The Global Generosity Network is organising a European Generosity Consultation in January 2016 in Spain. Attached is a leaflet and programme of the consultation. We are very pleased with the way the programme came together with workshops focused on different audiences including for churchRead more…

Fighting Against Snapchat Disciples

School-aged boys in Jesus’s day (back in the old days) were known and even expected to memorize the entire Jewish Bible (the Tanakh or the Old Testament).  If they wanted to be chosen to follow any of the leading Rabbis,Read more…

Free ePaper: Connecting God, the Gospel and Generosity

Here’s our contention.  You cannot separate God from the gospel or from generosity.  The three are distinctly woven together.  It’s kind of like the connection between Shakespear, tragic plays and MacBeth.  You almost never think of one without the otherRead more…

An intentional generosity plan

When our boys were younger, I wanted them to see how much we were giving to our church. I wanted to model cheerful generosity, and to demonstrate that this was normal and very intentional. If the truth be told, IRead more…

Major Donors Want to Give More Than NGOs Expect

Good news for major gift fundraisers: major donors feel (way) more engaged than NGOs think. Apart from giving money, major donors want to invest their time in, and share their network with, NGOs. Also, the group of (prospective) major donorsRead more…