One of the biggest landmines you have to navigate in picking a firm to help with your next campaign is the changing field of capital campaign companies.  Just last week learned the leader in our industry for almost twenty years, RSI, had been purchased by another firm.  It... Read More

If you are about to start raising funds for a project you need to know how to avoid wasting time with a capital campaign.  “Wait,” you say.  “Shouldn’t you be trying to convince readers to have a capital campaign?  Yet here you are talking about wasting... Read More

If you are going to raise the funds you need for your project you must know the most important part of a campaign, the beginning!  We tell our clients that they never have to recover from a good start.  Think about building a house.  What is the most important part?  Some might... Read More

If your next campaign is going to be a success you need to know how to pick a capital campaign partner.  There are scores of firms out there as well as many guys who do campaigns on the side.  How to you make sure you have the right consultant for your next campaign?  Here are... Read More

Joel Osteen once asked me, “Why can’t I just ask the people to give next Sunday?”  We were sitting at his dining room table on a Monday morning discussing how to help him raise the funds he needed to retrofit Houston’s Compaq Center.  The price tag for that was around $100... Read More

Like him or not President Trump in a recent speech pointed out that it’s time to repair our infrastructure.  Incredibly over 61,000 bridges in America are in need of repair.  Try not to think about that the next time you cross a river or bay.  What few are talking about is... Read More

Few understand how the waiting game is hurting churches.  The waiting game is what I call the avoidance of making decisions.  Bureaucracies are especially prone to delaying decisions with endless discussions, studies and delays.  Moving from conception to implementation is a long... Read More

It’s the 21st century and to raise capital funds you don’t need teams and you don’t need to go door to door.  Back in the last century the model for capital campaigns was to get as many people involved in some kind of work that hopefully helped them want to make... Read More

There are 4 major hurdles to hiring a stewardship firm that you need to know about.  I always say that if I only had to convince a pastor to hire me I would never be needing work.  What often occurs is that a committee, Board or other group of laypeople will over rule the... Read More

“Why do we need to spend money to raise money,” is one of the most often asked questions church leaders face when contemplating hiring a stewardship firm.  It is a fair question that must be answered.  My answer falls into two categories, pastoral and practical.... Read More