A great explanation about 7 milestones in learning to give to God and learning to receive from God. It should be used in every congregation in every part of the world!
7 Tips for Improving Donor Stewardship
Stewardship is the responsibility of taking care of something that belongs to someone else. Olsen gives a few tips and resources to improve the way organisations deal with donors. They include: treating donors well, have a written stewardship plan, followRead more…
2013 State of the Plate Research Report
According to the 2013 ‘State of the Plate’ report, 10 million Americans tithe $50+ billion annually. This report based on detailed national research in the USA on “tithers” examines where the tithers give, how much they give, how they give,Read more…
Giving Practices of Tithers May Surprise You
In this blog Pastor Brian Kluth of Maximum Generosity (www.kluth.org/index.htm) discusses the results of his 2013 State of the Plate research that focuses on tithers—the people who give 10 percent or more of their income to charitable causes. Some of the surprisesRead more…
mothers2mothers combines storytelling, social media and easy donation processing to inspire donors to give
How mothers2mothers Combines DonateNow with Social Media mothers2mothers International, a nonprofit that helps HIV-positive mothers in sub-Saharan Africa give birth to healthy babies, harnesses the power of social media and Network for Good’s DonateNow tool to raise funds for itsRead more…
Educating Donors
In this reflection on child sponsorship, Vinoth Ramachandra argues that child sponsorship ’is a near-perfect marketing strategy for raising funds.’ However child sponsorship exaggerates the importance of donors over that of the local people providing the care and training on theRead more…
The ethics of child sponsorship
Steve Holmes lecturer in theology at St Mary’s College, St Andrews, Scotland wrote this very interesting blog on the ethics of child sponsorship. He argues that there is ’something deeply Christian about child sponsorship as a mode of delivering aid andRead more…
“WISE GIVING” Q&A Video Series 25 Answers to Commonly Asked Questions on Giving & Tithing
25 short question and answer videos produced by Brian Kluth in partnership with ECFA in Washington, USA and the Maclellan Foundation. Questions #1-#9 provides practical answers to commonly asked questions about charitable giving. Questions #10-#25 provides biblical insights and answersRead more…
Giving away relationships
This week, I’ve been visiting friends in New York and Philadelphia and having conversations about how they see generosity, especially being generous with relationships. I heard three different versions of giving away relationships, which I call building relationship bridges. ReturningRead more…
The best kind of generosity is done with others, not for others
A brilliant animated video that explores generosity from the perspective of relationships. God’s generosity is relational – therefore our generosity needs to be the same. This perspective on generosity is indeed transformational as it changes both the giver and receiver.Read more…