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By Mike Chalk
Kick-Off Celebration, remember that you are just beginning to enter a significant phase of the campaign that has everything to do with reaching the goal of the campaign.
By Diana Church Empsall
In the fundraising context, I like to think of the giving and receiving of money as a kind of sacrament – it is the outward and visible sign of a spiritual covenant between donor and recipient.
By Sarah Townsend Leach
This is part two of a two part blog in which I address a question I hear frequently. In part two, I will address capital giving and planned giving.
By Sarah Townsend Leach
The short answer to his questions is, if we (the campaign leadership from your parish supported by me, your ECF capital campaign consultant) do our jobs right, the total given through annual stewardship pledges will not decrease over the course of a capital campaign.
By Jerry Keucher
It is amazing, if you have prepared carefully and asked rightly, how frequently people will do exactly what you ask them to do. And they will feel great as they do it.
By Nick Sollog
The question I am often asked when I am making a presentation to prospective clients is usually related to making “The Ask”.
By Kim Hanson
“Doesn’t having a capital campaign negatively impact annual stewardship?” This question is one of the most frequently asked by churches anticipating a capital drive.
By Crystal Plummer
If I were to paraphrase Ms. Satir for our context, I might say something like this, “once a church commits to a capital campaign with ECF, thorough communications will play an important role in determining the relationships parishioners develop and how they connect with one another and the overall success of their capital campaign and beyond.”
By Diana Church Empsall
We aren’t asking for money because we need money for its own sake, but because of what that money will enable us to do, together.
By Sarah Townsend Leach
Aside from the elements of our Christian faith and worship practices, churches are not so different from secular nonprofit organizations, and can learn valuable lessons from our non-religious cousins.
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