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 […]
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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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I am excited to be part of presenting an in-person workshop this Fall on stewardship practices grounded in our UU Principles, values, religious purposes, and – dare I say it? – faith. My partners in presenting will be Elizabeth Ann Terry, Unitarian Universalist Association Congregational Giving Specialist, and Connie Goodbread, Acting Co-Lead of the Unitarian
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Last month, we (Rachel and Kay) attended UUA General Assembly where we facilitated a workshop together with Jessica York, Director of Congregational Life at the UUA on Money, Power, & Meaning. We had a marvelous time in Spokane learning from other sessions and seeing many folks from the congregations with whom we work. It is
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Stewardship for Us consultants Kay Crider and Rachel Maxwell will be at GA in Spokane. We’d love to connect with you! You can reach out to us by emailing team@stewardshipforus.com. Or, you may find us hanging out at the UUA booth — if you don’t see us, we’ll leave some brochures with our contact information
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Benchmarks for Reviewing an Annual Pledge Campaign This Part 2 or the review deals with the numeric data. Combining this with the Part 1 qualitative information will give you a basis on which to understand the immediate past drive and plan the next one. This listing is intended to be inclusive, not exclusive – other
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Across the country, many UU congregations are heading toward the finish line of their annual stewardship campaigns. Some are deep into time-bound spring campaigns; others are in the spring phase of year-round giving and pledging; others are collecting from a fall pledge drive; and still others are hard at work on combined annual stewardship and
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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