Greetings I am writing this e-newsletter while at various stops on a vacation/work trip out west. First stop was wild, wonderful, snowy Yellowstone Park, a beautiful place to visit in the dead of winter. Then on to Phoenix for a stewardship consulting weekend and a rained-out spring training baseball game – a pretty rare occurrence […]
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Congregational leaders tend to describe their challenges and circumstances in terms of deficiencies – not enough volunteers, young people and families, diversity, money. Perhaps our approaches to stewardship inhibit us from seeing opportunities and resources that are all around us. This workshop will explore the Who, How, and Why of creating better stewardship programs, informed
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Re. Laura Randall is the Director of The Legacy Challenge , which gave a match for new planned gifts for the Wake Now Our Vision Collaborative Campaign initiative and Unitarian Universalist congregations. Interviewed by Mark Ewert, Rev. Laura gives us an update on the exciting and successful results of this program: Q: What is the estimated amount
Report on the Legacy Challenge Read More »
Your pledge drive needs to happen soon, but it is late and you still don’t have a drive leader, or maybe just got one in place! What are options for congregations when they don’t have time for: volunteer recruitment, good planning, identifying strategies that fit, creating effective messaging, or coordinating with other parts of the
Webinar: Planning Your Pledge Drive – LATE! Read More »
As we approach the end of the year, many of us are thinking about all we are grateful for and about how to make meaningful gifts in difficult times. “These are the days we are living in. Days that force us to consider how we combat the cruelty that would disperse tear gas (a chemical
Gratitude & Generosity: Year-end Giving Read More »
Today we are launching our Stewardship For Us Team annual report! This year, we wanted to give a short, easy to digest picture of our activities last year. Since many of our client congregations and the Unitarian Universalist Association are on a fiscal year of July 1 to June 30, we are presenting our data
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Ministers often ask us about their role in their congregation’s capital campaign. This question is both simple and complex, simple in that some roles are universal or nearly so, while others are based on the personalities and strengths of the minister and the lay leaders, as well as the culture, size, and governance of the
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Are you concerned about the distribution of giving in your congregation? Join Rachel Maxwell & Kay Crider of Stewardship for Us for a webinar on skewed giving. We’ll talk about the range of giving within our congregations, economic justice and the Fair Share Giving Guide, incentives for raising pledges, secrecy versus confidentiality, effective messaging and …
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Do you think the time is ripening in your congregation to start working toward a capital campaign? Do you see one on the horizon and want to be ready for it? Do you want to get your professional and lay leaders on the same page, so your early planning efforts are aligned around a broader
Capital Campaign Webinars: How Do We Get There and Road-map Read More »
How many of you would rather have a root canal than talk with members of your congregation about money? Why is money such a touchy topic? In the words of Rev. Jan Christian, a minister on staff for the UUA’s Pacific Western Region, “Our wounds are often deep when it comes to money and our
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