thanking givers

We’ve written before about the importance of good gift acknowledgements, but we’ve never had a show-and-tell of problematic thank-you’s until now.

What does it mean to do something "personally"? However you answer that question is how you should be thanking your givers. But will your giving technology let you?

Your online giving experience is, essentially, the way giving a gift makes your givers feel. It's about the look, the ease (or lack thereof) of completing the gift, how secure it feels, and how connected it makes them feel to their church. You could say it's the overall vibe. Studies show that as much as 83% of gifts are abandoned on charitable websites. Curious to know what traits do this?

Technology built for the church doesn’t always serve your givers or your staff as you'd like. Pondering this brought to mind the 10 commandments, the original divine standard for how to relate to God and one another. So we created a tongue-in-cheek list of 11 Commandments of Online Giving