Welcome to another in our series of Stewardship as Community Care posts, this one on budgeting. The Issue A large majority of our congregations are facing the start of a new church year on July 1, 2020, and budgeting for the new year is very much on everyone’s mind. There is no telling how the […]
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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
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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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Welcome to the second in our series of blogs on Stewardship as Community Care. In these times of social isolation, we can use our campaigns to reach out and connect with messages of compassion, concern and hope.. Virtual stewardship has much in common with on-site and in-person stewardship: Stewardship conversations are sacred conversations in whatever
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Join Us: Monday, March 23, 2020Noon-1:00 PM EDT, 11:00 AM Central, 10:00 AM Mountain, 9:00 AM PacificFree, With Support from the Unitarian Universalist Association Everything changed radically, and very quickly, in the last few weeks for UU congregations. Along with worship and religious education and lots of other programs going virtual, stewardship needs to adapt
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Stewardship as a Tool for Connecting So much has changed over the past week. It’s hard to keep up with the daily and hourly updates to guidance and mandates. We recognize that you are facing unprecedented challenges and stresses. This is especially so for the large majority of congregations conducting annual campaigns right now to
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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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The Snapshot (see part 1 for the infographic): What work has the Stewardship For Us team been doing? Each year we look at our activities and try to account for where we have been working, and the nature of that work. We have sent information out to you before, calling it an “Annual Report.” Because
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Here is a PDF of this document as well, if you want to download it.
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New Year’s Greetings to all of you from all of us at Stewardship for Us. We are looking forward to an interesting year in 2020, we hope with excellent results for Unitarian Universalism and UU stewardship. The turning over of the calendar reminds me of a question we get frequently from congregation leadership: what is
What’s the best fiscal year for a UU congregation? Read More »
