GivingTuesday for Churches: How to Prepare Your Finances and Reporting
Most GivingTuesday advice for churches is about marketing: the email sequence, the social posts, the campaign theme. That matters, but it leaves out the part that determines whether the campaign is easy or painful for your finance team afterward. When the gifts start arriving, someone has to record them correctly, reconcile them to the bank, […]
Capital Campaign Financial Planning: What to Model Before You Launch
A capital campaign fails financially far more often from a modeling gap than a fundraising gap. Churches are usually good at rallying a congregation around a vision – a new building, an expansion, a renovation. Where things go wrong is in the financial planning that should happen before the campaign launches: what it actually costs […]
