Mark Ewert, Author at Stewardship For Us

UUA General Assembly Workshops are now openly available!

The UUA General Assembly Workshops are now openly available! Our team presented in three of the workshops. You’ll find them in the links below. UUA General Assembly 2021 Workshop: Sustaining the Multi-Platform Church UUA General Assembly Workshop: Courage to Dream Big, Ask Big UUA General Assembly Workshop: Spiritual Practices to Support Generous People and Communities […]

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Here Comes General Assembly Stewardship!

Stewardship / Mark Ewert

Having the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly in digital format is not as rich as it is when we can call meet in person. Still, it has allowed a lot more people to participate and benefit than was possible, even with the virtual elements, before 2020. This year, folks from the Stewardship For Us team and

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Planned Giving: Now is a Good Time!

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NOTE: Please join us this Friday, May 21 at 10 am Pacific (11 am Mountain, Noon Central, 1 pm Eastern) for an Open Forum Zoom on the topic of planned giving programs. An invitation will be sent to everyone on our email list on Thursday – with the connecting link. If you haven’t already, you

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Why and How to Do a Year End Giving Drive?

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Many congregations send a single letter to all congregants for a year end effort. This year consider doing more – and you will get a different response! It can be as simple and easy as fits your capacity. Just be aware that if it is easy for you to do (efficient) it may be easy

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Capital Campaigns in the Virtual World

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An Open Forum Follow Up Thank you to the 36 folks who joined us last Friday for the Open Forum on Capital Campaigns in the healthy distance world. There were some great questions and suggestions captured in the chat that the participants downloaded themselves during the Zoom. We also promised that we would post the

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General Assembly Workshop Recordings – Open!

Stewardship / Mark Ewert

If you missed it, video recordings from the Unitarian Universalist Association virtual General Assembly this past June are now available for your binge-watching online. You can watch the main plenary speakers, worship and ceremonies, business of the Association, and workshops. Unlike previous years, almost everything was recorded and is available. There are a couple of

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Using your Endowment During Financial Emergencies

Leadership, Legacy, Stewardship / Mark Ewert

I always ask the congregations with whom I work, “What is the purpose of your endowment?”, and “How have you laid out its uses, and what triggers those disbursements?” It is important to make sure the policies that control the use of your endowment are clear, functional and well documented. For congregations with an endowment

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Symposium on Stewardship During Virtual Sundays

Annual Campaign, Communications, Pledge, Resources, Stewardship / Mark Ewert

The focus of this week’s Zoom Symposium was Stewardship During Virtual Sundays. We hope our slides and video, as well as the sharing of ideas among congregations, are helpful as you continue to build a Sunday online experience, and other virtual programs for your congregation. The symposium covered the opportunities for asking for pledges and

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Weekly Zoom Stewardship Symposium: Tomorrow – Budgeting!

Money, Resources, Stewardship / Mark Ewert

NEW: The Stewardship For Us team will offer a Zoom Symposium every Friday at 10 AM Pacific time (11 am Mountain, Noon Central, 1 pm Eastern), until further notice. Each will have a different Zoom login code that will be announced that week. There will be no registration and we will blog about it with the

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Pledge Drive Communications Now: Intelligence from the Symposium

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Thanks to everyone who participated in the pop-up video symposium today: Pledge Drive Communications Now. We had 46 people on the Zoom – great to see everyone’s faces and thank you for contributing via the Chat function! Many thanks to The First UU Society of Burlington, Vermont who allowed me to use their materials as

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