Finance

Learn how a legacy society will enhance and empower your congregation's planned giving ministry.
Join other parishioners just like you to learn more about planned giving options and how they can benefit both you and your congregation.
Learn how a legacy society will enhance and empower your congregation's planned giving ministry.
ECF hosts quarterly webinars that focus on relevant topics for Planned Giving and Development Leaders.
This webinar on opportunities of chariatble remainder trusts features a conversation's with ECF's new legal counsel, Nancy Marx, and David Leibell, ECF's prior attorney in planned giving work.
How congregations spend their money is a clear indication of their understanding of mission and ministry. For any parish leader, lay or clergy, a quick look at the financial situation can help one discern a key piece of the c…
This webinar will be based on the Flourishing In Faith series of bulletin inserts produced by The Episcopal Network for Stewardship. (TENS)
This workshop provides an overview for your parish on how to set up a year-round stewardship program focusing on clear theological grounding and practical tools to implement your efforts.
Learn more about planned giving options and how they can benefit both you and your parish or favorite Episcopal charity.
This webinar will look at how your investment policy statement, spending rules, and asset allocation are intimately related. Vestries, finance committees and other leaders in Episcopal churches and organizations are called up…
In this short video, James W. Murphy Managing Program Director at ECF, reviews the benefits of this beneficial and easy-to-use philanthropic tool, the Donor-Advised Fund (DAF).
This hands-on webinar will provide participants a step-by-step process in effective grant writing and techniques for creating a narrative budget.
In this short video, Jim Murphy Managing Program Director at ECF, reviews the benefits of this easy to set up Life Income Gift known as the Charitable Gift Annuity (CGA).
Join ECF staffers Carsten Sierck and Demi Prentiss as they explore finance and planning practices to help prepare congregations for the new and unexpected.
Social distancing puts a strain on church finances. When online worship makes passing the plate impossible, who’s handling the money and who’s keeping track of it?
ECF hosted this latest webinar for our endowment clients with our investment manager Dennis Dwyer from State Street Global Advisors (SSGA).
This webinar will provide some clarity and direction for all of us as we explore our options with the CARES Act of 2020.
This webinar is designed to help you understand how compensation is taxed including salary, housing, and other benefits clergy may receive.
What inspires congregations to make sound financial management a priority?
We are on a never-ending journey of formation as communities of faith dedicated to forming disciples of Jesus Christ to participate in God’s mission of reconciliation in the world. So why shouldn’t our budgeting practices ref…