A short time ago, we encouraged you to “Save the Date” for an upcoming FREE Stewardship for Us webinar and to stand by for information on participating. Well, it’s Showtime! This is an early – mid-point for many congregations in planning their annual stewardship campaign and supporting information programs for the year. Many of us […]
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A FREE Stewardship Webinar is Coming Your Way The Stewardship for Us team will be conducting a free webinar in October specifically designed to answer your questions. – Thinking about changing your stewardship approach? – Wondering how to recruit stewardship volunteers? – Looking for ways to engage persistent non-pledgers or very low pledgers? –
Two Opportunities with Time Limits Coming Up We have two events/activities on the horizon; don’t miss out on either. UUA General Assembly: Many of us will no doubt be attending the UUA General Assembly in New Orleans this month. It’s always a fascinating experience and a chance to learn much that you can share with others. This
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What Are We Supposed to Do Next? A New Webinar to Get You Off to a Great Start on Your Next Campaign Your stewardship campaign for this year is finally over. Take a well-deserved break. But first – let’s take a few notes and make some preliminary steps, learning from this year and using
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In response to our call last month for a better graphic image than that tired old thermometer to depict progress on your stewardship campaign, you came up with some really clever ideas you have used either this year or in the recent past. Thanks for sharing! There are a lot of good ideas out there.
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Quite often we get questions about how to tailor the Suggested Fair Share Contribution Guide for people who do not have regular paychecks or predictable income streams. This includes retirees who draw from IRAs or 401Ks for much of their living expenses, and for whom Adjusted Gross Income understates their income and financial capacity. It
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Is Your Congregation SICK? No? Then Why Are You Waving that Thermometer Around? This is the time of year when many congregations are just completing their annual stewardship drive. That suggests two questions you might want to entertain for your campaign next year. One, what sort of visual aids are you using to depict elements
Does your Commons area have a Stewardship Station, where all can come aboard to learn and share? by Bill Clontz, Stewardship Consultant Walk into just about any of our congregations and in the Commons or Greeting Table area, you will find an array of literature about Unitarian Universalism. Happily, one will also usually find much
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Is the Suggested Fair Share Contribution Guide Too Complex? Too Demanding? Too Rigid? Nope, Nope, and Nope! by Bill Clontz, Stewardship Consultant This is the time of year wherein many congregations are conducting annual stewardship drives. That means we receive a lot of inquiries about now concerning the UUA’s Suggested Fair Share Contribution Guide (SFSCG).
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Risk-Taking My congregation in Wilmington, Delaware has signed on to the Soul Matters program, so each month we get a theme and worship and educational materials around that theme. We are among 200 or so UU congregations doing this. This month’s theme is Risk and the question for us to ponder is: “What does it
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