Our Stewardship For Us consultants have been working hard on workshop presentations for this year’s Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly ’25 in Baltimore, MD.
Three of our consultants will be attending GA in person, so please connect with us if you want to meet in person while you are in Baltimore: Rev. Sara Green, Rev. Lydia Ferrante-Roseberry, and Mark Ewert. The whole team has contributed to three GA25 workshops, and hope you will join us at all of them:
Giving Guides, Strategy and Story
Live Online Only Workshop, presented on the GA schedule:
Presenters: Rev. Lydia Ferrante-Roseberry & Rev. Sara Green
When: Thursday 6/19 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Eastern
Explore our new Giving Guide, designed to support your congregation’s annual budget drive! Learn about its creation, discover best practices for effective use, and engage directly with the guide. Gain practical tools to inspire generosity and strengthen your community’s stewardship efforts.
As you may know, Rev. Lydia and Rev. Sara have been working
to overhaul the old Suggested Fair Share Giving Guide. This is the roll-out of the new Guide!
Generosity as a Shared Value: Making it Real
Live Online Only Workshop, presented on the GA schedule:
Presenters: Rachel Maxwell, Mark Ewert, and prerecorded guests
When: Friday 6/20 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Eastern
Join us and bring your ideas about Generosity as a shared value, as individual spiritual development, and as liberating community practice. Featuring inspiring guests and experts with practical advice for building deep cultures of generosity. There will be time to engage with peers and gain valuable ideas.
Create Your Living Our Vision Fund!
On-Demand Online Workshop, on the Whova App EduCenter
Presenters: Kay Crider and Mark Ewert, and prerecorded guests
When: On your own schedule!
Learn how to create a new kind of long-term fund, a Sustainability Fund, for both financial resilience and strategic initiatives. It’s different from standard reserves or a traditional endowment and funded separately from your annual programs. We’ll focus on practical tools to create your fund and help your congregation thrive!
We hope to see you at these workshops. Please invite other folks from your congregation to attend .
Mark Ewert is a stewardship consultant, a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® (CAP®), and a professional leadership and philanthropy coach (PCC) certified with the International Coaching Federation.
His experience includes founding a nonprofit, working as a fundraiser, and leading a national organization. Reach Mark at Team@StewardshipForUs.com