We invite you to be part of a cohort of congregational leaders sharing ideas and conducting experiments to explore stewardship and discover together! In each of our sessions we will lead with a money story relevant to a Stewardship topic and discuss ideas and ways we might be able to manifest those ideas in our […]
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Generosity is one of our Unitarian Universalist shared values. This beautiful value, centered in love calls to us. This is a trying and confusing time in history, one that could defy our ability to be generous to those around us in our personal, family, and professional lives as well as in our congregations. What sustains
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“How much should I give?” Anyone involved with congregational stewardship has had to answer this question. For many years, the UUA’s Fair Sharing Giving Guide provided a grid, based on income, to help pledging households decide on their pledge. Over time, however, we understood that an income-based guide didn’t fully reflect the realities of people’s
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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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