Posts Tagged ‘The Timothy Group’
Data Services For the Win By Brent Nudo
Discerning the Right Data Services Can Change Everything! Whether it’s managing donor records, understanding the effectiveness of your communications effort, or helping your team identify that next big prospect, data plays a vital role in your organization’s success. Using the right tools will move your ministry into the 21st Century! Digital Tool Assessment & Recommendations…
Read MoreCommunication Starts with Balance By Jonathan Helder
Successful Communications Always Begins with the Right Balance We’ve all heard these horror stories or experienced them ourselves. Nonprofits sending relentless email solicitations. Memorial gifts given online transition to an onslaught of mailers. The only mail you receive from your favorite nonprofit is solicitations. None of us want to be that nonprofit. While there is undoubtedly a…
Read MoreCapital Campaigns and Baseball by Pat McLaughlin
Capital Campaigns Are a Lot Like Baseball I’ve been a high school and college umpire for 35 years and have learned that successful capital campaigns are much like baseball. A pitcher needs to prepare and strategize before throwing the ball; your ministry needs to plan and set goals before pitching your campaign. Great pitchers deliver…
Read MoreWorking with One Heart and Mind By Ron Haas
True Ministry Partners Know How to Work as One “All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in…
Read MoreFarewell to Fickle Fundraising By Ron Haas
How to Avoid Fickle Fundraising The Cambridge English Dictionary defines fickle as “likely to change your opinion or your feelings suddenly and without a good reason.” I wanted to visit you first to that you might benefit twice. I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come to you from Macedonia,…
Read MoreDevelop a Persuasive Case By Ron Haas
Learn the Process of Developing a Persuasive Case “My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.” ~ I Cor. 2:4-8 Have you ever agonized over finding just the right persuasive…
Read MoreThe Boastful Giver By Ron Haas
You Must Beware of the Boastful Giver Occasionally, you meet a generous giver who checks all your qualifying boxes. They have a link to your organization. They are interested in your projects. They seem to have the ability and willingness to give. They even talk about how much they love your ministry—yet they never give.…
Read MoreA Duty to Ask and A Duty to Give By Ron Haas
Is your greatest sense of duty to ask or to give? John D. Rockefeller, Jr. realized that the duty to ask and the duty to give were both important functions. He once remarked, “Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy object, any more than as though you were…
Read MoreGet Your Website Donor-Ready By Rob Flint Jr.
It’s time to get your website donor-ready for fall! Organizations, for the most part, understand the importance and alum of a website. Most realize that their website is like the front door of a store or church. And everyone wants a website that looks good, is clean, inviting – and most important – easy to…
Read MoreAbounding in Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving for the featured sponsors and exhibitors – #Outcomes19 Christian Leadership Alliance gives thanks for the sponsors and exhibitors who supported the Outcomes Conference 2019. This post is in honor of the ministries, organizations and businesses that dedicate their time, talents and resources to strengthening those called to lead and serve in churches, nonprofit ministry…
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