Happy New Year! Now that the holidays are past and many congregations are working on their Spring pledge drives in earnest, this might be a good time to define some words associated with stewardship. Here is a short list of vocabulary, with some comments about each one – this is not your mother’s dictionary! Stewardship
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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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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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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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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
Why and How to Do a Year End Giving Drive? Read More »
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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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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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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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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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
Weekly Zoom Stewardship Symposium: Tomorrow – Budgeting! Read More »
