A Living Our Vision Fund is for strategic and visionary opportunities that arise for your congregation. For UUA General Assembly 2025, Kay Crider & Mark Ewert created a 36-minute video that explains the what, why and how to create a Living Our Vision Fund. Here’s what we covered: Different than a traditional endowment where the […]
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A common question from congregations to our Stewardship for Us team is “How can we ask for higher giving during these tumultuous, uncertain times?” Our response — Now it’s more important than ever! Supporting our beloved communities is essential in these times. The world needs our shared values, our community building and connection, our justice
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Reps from 20 congregations shared their ideas at the October Friday Forum with Stewardship for Us. How are your sibling Unitarian Universalist congregations keeping their Annual Budget Drive methods fresh from year to year? How is success measured? Ways folks shared they measure success: Number of connections made with congregants in person or by phone
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Stewardship for Us is excited to announce that Rev. Lydia Ferrante-Roseberry has joined our team! Based in the Denver area, Rev. Lydia brings more than twenty years of experience working successfully with three congregations of various sizes. During her ministries, she cultivated generosity in those congregations to help each of them live into their vision
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Many of you joined us at UUA’s General Assembly in June 2023 for our webinar Living Into Stewardship Now. There were numerous ideas shared during the presentation, the breakout groups and in the chat. We discussed stewardship engagement in your congregation, connection and beloved community creation, the gifts and challenges of stewardship today, UU theology
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The 2020-21 virtual church year is making us step up and be more creative than ever! Fall is often the time when we have fundraisers such as book sales, craft fairs, and auctions. Congregations are adapting these events to an online venue, staying connected and raising funds to support their mission, vision and programs. There’s
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This article is the first in a two-part series about Stewardship and Leadership, with the focus of Part I on leadership traits as applied to stewardship. When we think of stewardship, oftentimes money is top of mind. It’s a much broader concept than money, as most of you know, and has many facets. Today we
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Thank you to the 75 people who joined us May 22, 2020, for our Friday Forum about Virtual Fundraisers! Our discussion centered on online auctions because they are typically the biggest fundraiser for our congregations and folks had a lot of auction info. to share. See one of our previous blog articles that discusses fundraisers
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Our Unitarian Universalist congregations have always been creative about our fundraisers and these unprecedented times show we are stepping up to the challenge! There are several ways UU’s are helping the bottom line with fundraisers using food, music, education, and re-imagining typical church events like an annual auction. At a minimum, here are some key
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The focus of this week’s Zoom Symposium was Covenant. We hope our slides and video, as well as the sharing of ideas among congregations, are helpful as you continue to build and honor your covenantal relationships in your congregations and with the UUA. The symposium covered the origins of covenant in our faith, the many
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