Barry Finkelstein, Author at Stewardship For Us

Stewardship and Leadership: Part II: We are ALL Called to be Stewardship Leaders

How can I as a stewardship leader, engage other church leaders in stewardship? Part I in this series identified four key leadership traits especially useful for stewardship: Trust Transparency Compassion Hope UUs recognize that effective financial stewardship is essential for carrying out our basic programs and fulfilling our mission. Many of us also recognize that […]

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Capital Campaign Forum Slides

Stewardship / Barry Finkelstein

On Friday, June 5, we had a lively forum with 36 attendees about building and other major projects, capital campaigns, and considerations going forward in the age of virtual church operations. The slides from the forum are available at the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DAEHG0JpLayneJPbvCjQmZDGYondXyDY/view?usp=sharing Please respond to this post to share any current or recent experiences

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Weekly Zoom Stewardship Symposium: Covenant

Stewardship / Barry Finkelstein

The Stewardship For Us team will continue its weekly Zoom Symposiums this Friday at 10 AM Pacific time (11 am Mountain, Noon Central, 1 pm Eastern) this week. Topic and link are as follows: Zoom Symposium: Stewardship as Part of our Great Covenant Friday, April 3, 2020 10 am PT | 11 am MT

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Budgeting in Uncertain Times

2 Comments / Stewardship / Barry Finkelstein

Welcome to another in our series of Stewardship as Community Care posts, this one on budgeting. The Issue A large majority of our congregations are facing the start of a new church year on July 1, 2020, and budgeting for the new year is very much on everyone’s mind. There is no telling how the

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Stewardship as Community Care

Stewardship / Barry Finkelstein

Stewardship as a Tool for Connecting So much has changed over the past week. It’s hard to keep up with the daily and hourly updates to guidance and mandates. We recognize that you are facing unprecedented challenges and stresses. This is especially so for the large majority of congregations conducting annual campaigns right now to

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What’s the best fiscal year for a UU congregation?

Stewardship, Unitarian Universalism / Barry Finkelstein

New Year’s Greetings to all of you from all of us at Stewardship for Us. We are looking forward to an interesting year in 2020, we hope with excellent results for Unitarian Universalism and UU stewardship. The turning over of the calendar reminds me of a question we get frequently from congregation leadership: what is

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Stewardship for Us Winter Newsletter

Stewardship / Barry Finkelstein

Greetings I am writing this e-newsletter while at various stops on a vacation/work trip out west. First stop was wild, wonderful, snowy Yellowstone Park, a beautiful place to visit in the dead of winter. Then on to Phoenix for a stewardship consulting weekend and a rained-out spring training baseball game – a pretty rare occurrence

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Ministers’ Roles in Capital Campaigns

2 Comments / Leadership, Ministers, Stewardship / Barry Finkelstein

Ministers often ask us about their role in their congregation’s capital campaign. This question is both simple and complex, simple in that some roles are universal or nearly so, while others are based on the personalities and strengths of the minister and the lay leaders, as well as the culture, size, and governance of the

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Farewell to All That

1 Comment / Leadership, Stewardship, Unitarian Universalism / Barry Finkelstein

Knowing when it is time to turn the page is an essential skill – for congregations and for individuals I’ve seen it more times than I can count. A congregation makes a transition, occasionally to fix something that is broken, but more often to take advantage of new opportunities or meet new challenges. A

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The Power of Video Storytelling, by Tom Dudzinski

Communications, Legacy, Stewardship, Unitarian Universalism / Barry Finkelstein

We have a special treat for this post: a guest blogger, Tom Dudzinski, who writes about the power of video storytelling in the service of UU stewardship, especially capital and combined campaigns. Tom is a pro who brings decades of video and communications experience to enhance congregations’ ability to reach and engage members and friends.

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