In the challenges of the current times, a time when many congregations have fewer people on Sunday mornings, fewer pledging households, fewer fundraisers, fewer rentals, and all around less money coming through the doors, we must choose carefully what we invest in. And need to understand our available resources and develop our capacity for stewarding […]
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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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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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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
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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
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It is always surprising that congregations are managing their endowment investments locally, using an investment manager, and that manager is sometimes even a member. In some cases they are trying to maximize their profit, which is understandable if the congregation is in authentic financial jeopardy. Yet to do so, they might risk violating our Unitarian
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Workshops and Other Events As I am back from the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly 2018, here is a brief report of my highlights for those who did not attend (and those who did!). Workshop: Calling Future Ancestors – Shaping Our Legacy Today Rev. Laura Randal and I presented this workshop. We had a good
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Knowing when it is time to turn the page is an essential skill – for congregations and for individuals I’ve seen it more times than I can count. A congregation makes a transition, occasionally to fix something that is broken, but more often to take advantage of new opportunities or meet new challenges. A
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We are delighted to welcome Rachel Maxwell to our team of consultants! Rachel has a lifelong commitment to helping people use money to create real value in the world. Most recently she co-founded and led Community Sourced Capital, an innovative lending platform that helped people come together to form zero-interest loans for the small businesses
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