When You Wish You Had a Reset Button — 5 Common Mistakes Churches Make in Conducting Capital Campaigns: Mistake #3
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DickersonBakker
Sooner or later every church faces the need to raise money for facilities–whether to expand, renovate, or repair. Church campaigns are complex, and it is ...
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Make an Offer They Can’t Refuse. How to Craft an Effective Major Gift Offer
By
Derric Bakker
With fierce competition in today’s philanthropic marketplace, how and what you are communicating with your donors is vitally important to ensuring success ...
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When You Wish You Had a Reset Button — 5 Common Mistakes Churches Make in Conducting Capital Campaigns: Mistake #5
By
Derric Bakker
Sooner or later every church faces the need to raise money for facilities–whether to expand, renovate, or repair. Church campaigns are complex, and it is ...
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When You Wish You Had a Reset Button — Five Common Mistakes Churches Make in Conducting Capital Campaigns
By
Derric Bakker
Is there a capital campaign in your church’s future? Sooner or later every church faces the need to raise money for facilities–whether to expand, ...
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Great Fundraisers… What Makes Them Great, and How to Find and Recruit Them to Your Organization
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Derric Bakker
I was on a flight to Portland recently when I happened upon an article in BusinessWeek magazine about Portland resident Dan McLaughlin. Having never ...
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Do You Know the Three Facets of Nonprofit Vibrancy?
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Guest Contributor Brent Hafele
All was going well until my new boss, Derric Bakker, asked me how I defined vibrancy. Stated plainly, I fell flat on my face. I stuttered and stammered ...
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Three Distinctives of Christian Fundraising
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Derric Bakker
What’s so Christian about the way we do our fundraising? Is Christian fundraising nothing more than secular fundraising, with some Bible verses strewn ...
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Sometimes the Planning is More Important than the Plan
By
Guest Contributor Brent Hafele
Strategic planning has a reputation for being an exercise in futility. Too often the process is long and drawn out or the steps are ambiguous and ...
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