Stewardship for Us will host two virtual Friday Forums this Month: September 11th and September 25th. Stewardship Planning for the Year – Sept 11 Whether you have a Spring or Fall Pledging Campaign — or if you do year round pledging — it’s important to have an annual calendar to maintain momentum and develop […]
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Many congregations hold retreats for their board in the summer months both to bring their new members up to speed and to determine priorities for the congregation. Include congregational stewardship in your planning and training of board members. Among the Board’s primary responsibilities to the congregation are: Serve the Mission Uphold and sustain the institution
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We hosted a lively program at virtual GA on June 26th, introducing Edgar Villanueva’s book, Decolonizing Wealth, and his seven steps to healing through money, or using money as medicine. Over 175 people joined our session to learn and discuss the ways in which their congregations can engage in this work. Villanueva’s Seven Steps are:
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JOIN US at virtual GA! Shelter-In-Place AND Work for Racial Justice with us at GA! Come join us to learn what you can do as individuals, with your congregation, and in the community to turn the tide toward justice for people of color in the US. In our workshop at Virtual General Assembly on June
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Anxiety makes us fearful and fear brings on a sense of scarcity. How do we cope with the thorny aspects of stewardship in high anxiety times? We look for the abundance. And it is there. I see abundance in the acts of every day human kindness and courage. Not just the heroic doctors and nurses
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Welcome to the fourth in our series of Stewardship as Community Care posts. I was in a Zoom call the other day with lots of congregations represented. It was one of the Virtual Stewardship Salons hosted by the UUA. We broke in to separate breakout rooms and I was in a room with folks from
We’ve been getting a lot of calls about the current health crisis and its effect on Spring Annual Budget drives, fundraisers and capital campaigns. What should we do? People ask. My home congregation, the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Congregation, is just north of Seattle, the city that’s had the worst outbreak of the virus. When this
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A myth is a story we tell again and again, that serves to explain why something is the way it is. A paradigm is a way that we look at things. A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the way we look at things. As the Poet Alberto Rios said in his poem, When
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The following is an article by Rev. Lauren Smith, who gave us permission to republish this piece which first appeared in the September 2019 edition of the UUA’s Monthly Tidings. Dear Friends, I hear stories like this all the time in my current capacity as Director of Stewardship and Development for the UUA: “A few
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Stewardship for Us is frequently contacted by congregations facing major decisions about their buildings. How can their spaces help them live out their missions and visions more fully? Should they invest in major capital repair? Can they do a multi-use redesign? Or maybe sell their building and move to a new location? This
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