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What Churches Can Learn About Gift Impact from Charity: Water
There’s a lot of talk these days about down-trending “giving.” However, recent studies show that charitable giving is actually up.
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Beyond Paperclips and Salaries: Demonstrating the “Ministry” in Your General Fund
The “General Fund” is a great catch-call for organizing your giving funds and expenditures.
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4 Reasons to Upgrade Your Giving System Before Your ChMS or Parish Database
If you’re considering upgrading your giving system, your ChMS (or parish database), you may wonder which you should update first. It’s a little like...
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How Do Churches Keep Track of Donations?
Most churches use a giving software to accept and track online gifts. But can your system track ALL these details?
What Drives Millennial Giving?
Millennial giving has been on the church’s radar for a while. They will one day be the church’s future top givers, replacing the Baby Boomer and Gen...
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3 Simple Questions to Ask About Giving Analytics
Data reporting and analytics can be confusing … or so simple that they’re not much help.
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True Story: “It Was Easier to Just Write a Check”
Remember back when millennials were becoming adults and the main reason for implementing digital giving was that young people couldn’t just write a...
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Why the Pastor Should Be a Stewardship Leader
As churches begin to see the reality about church giving declines, they’re recognizing that old mindsets must be rooted out and new ones forged. One...
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Thanking Givers? Do This, Not That
We’ve written before about the importance of thanking givers well, but we’ve never had a show-and-tell of problematic thank-you’s until now.