Monthly giving is one of the great pots of gold for you and your cause. It’s one of the best ways to grow more funding from your current donors, instead of having to beat the bushes for new donors allRead more…
How to Plan a Successful Capital Campaign in Four Steps
If a capital campaign might be in your organization’s future, it’s never too soon to think about the steps of good capital campaign planning. If your board is just starting to talk about a new building at board meetings, aRead more…
Capital Campaign Objectives: What Can We Raise Money For?
This post is step one of a four-step roadmap for your capital campaign planning. As part of this series, step one is all about possibility and impact. “What Should We Raise Capital Campaign Money For?” If a capital campaign is inRead more…
A Mismatch Between Need and Affluence
American communities with high standards of living often have low charitable giving rates, a new Chronicle analysis finds. Attached is the report while the website has excellent information.
6 Applications from Asia for All Steward Leaders
I just returned from teaching a class with seventeen students at Torch Trinity Graduate University in Seoul, South Korea, entitled Biblical Stewardship and Christian Generosity.The experience was a highlight of my academic career because I learned so much from these globally-mindedRead more…
Listen Your Way to Your Capital Campaign Gifts
What’s the toughest lesson to learn when you are soliciting your campaign gifts? To know when to shut up. Failure – or success – with your capital campaign ask Just imagine: Here you are, ready to make a key campaign solicitation. You’reRead more…
Is There Really Such a Thing as Donor Fatigue?
That God owns everything and that we are only stewards of all resources is a biblical truth which Christians believe, but not as popularly practiced. I teach my fundraising-students that these two basic principles of divine ownership andRead more…
Global Generosity Network Newsletter May 2015
The Global Generosity Network Newsletter for May had been sent out. Attached are the different articles in the Newsletter.
How to Say Thank You: The Genuine Fuel for Your Capital Campaign
How many thank you notes or letters or emails do you write every day? Are they formal and official sounding, or do they really reflect your personal appreciation? Here’s a thank you letter I received recently. Dear Andrea: ThankRead more…
Beyond the Collection Plate – Developing Church Income from Different Sources
In Beyond the Collection Plate, Steve Pierce offers clear accessible advice which will be of value to everybody involved in the leadership and financial management of churches, as well as to community groups engaged in church fundraising activities. Rich inRead more…