A friend who is both the president of a Christian college and a proud grandfather talked about spending a recent Sunday morning on a lacrosse… Read More »If not in church, then where will “nones” learn to give?
Over the years, I’ve sat through hundreds of prospect review sessions where the giving records of faithful supporters are analyzed down to the dollar. Bumps in giving are cheered, declines worried over, and the next ask planned with care. No one frets that donor files are regularly reviewed by the “right” people. Information is, after all, a fundraiser’s most valuable tool.
It’s the rare ministry CEO who worries that knowing who gives what will prejudice his or her relationship with friends of the organization. In fact, organizational heads usually want more information, not less.
Except, that is, when the CEO is a pastor. Read More »A challenge to pastors: embrace the ministry of fundraising
The folks over the Chronicle of Philanthropy have just released a special report titled “How America Gives,” and surprise, surprise, faith is a major factor… Read More »For faith and generosity, it’s déjà vu all over again.
Despite a whopping $290 billion in charitable giving in 2010, individual donors are no more generous now than when giving data was first collected some… Read More »Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the doors. Where are the givers?