We just completed our August workshop series entitled, “Marketing Your Ministry”. The focus of the workshop was the creation of an effective Signature Participation Project (SPP), that your “owners” could create to invite more participation in the cause through their sphere of influence.
One of the best things about an SPP is that it can impact champions at any level on the PEO (Participation, Engagement, Ownership) continuum. One well strategized and executed SPP can provide that...
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Are you like me and find yourself losing focus on the things that are most important? Do you find yourself going to extremes to try and take care of the things that you have? Sometimes being afraid that what you have might fall apart or get stolen? I find myself thinking that it would take too much time, money and effort to replace what I have because I have invested so much.
When I get this mindset, somehow God reminds me through a still small voice with these words, “Son you’ve got...
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This past month, I've been noticing people around me who are 'living brochures' - individuals who passionately support a cause and recruit others in their sphere of influence to do the same thing. Last week, I wrote about how Florida Gators quarterback, Tim Tebow, is a great real life example of a living brochure.
This posting by Greg Stier - written in the form of a letter to Miley Cirus - paints a picture of a younger person taking steps both forward and backward as she hopefully...
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This month and next Mission Increase Foundation is teaching on "Marketing Your Ministry" (if you're not already, you can get involved in the free MIF trainings by finding one closest to you). And, per usual, we are debunking our own title within the material. Here's how...It's not about YOU marketing your MINISTRY, but instead about YOU training up your CHAMPIONS to market the CAUSE. We call it creating "living brochures" (to replace those ever popular and ineffective paper brochures)...
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In my role as a foundation officer, I spend a good deal of time visiting nonprofit organizations on site visits, where I ask lots of questions and try to determine if the nonprofit is a good match to apply for a grant from Mission Increase Foundation. In this post, I’d like to take a brief detour from Transformational Giving to highlight the Pacific Rim Foundation, who hosted me recently on an excellent site visit.
Let’s look together at a few of the elements that went into my visit with...
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