in Vital Posts and filtered by Capital Campaigns, Discernment, Christian Formation
By Annette Buchanan
What if collectively as congregations we agreed to rid ourselves of bad habits and engage in new practices that enhance the overall life of our church?
By Anna Olson
The church today is not so unlike Luke’s audience. As we invite new neighbors and speak to new people, we are less and less able to presume a common vocabulary of faith or a common set of agreed-upon hopes.
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 Richelle Thompson
When we come to an end, what do we hope others remember of us? And how can we change what we’re doing right now to make that a reality?
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 Brendon Hunter
Five resources to help your vestry, bishop’s committee, or other leadership group take a productive and life-giving retreat.
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”.