Calendar 2003
How to Get Help in a Hurry
What We Offer Local Churches
Resources
Administration
Detroit Annual Conference
Start with: Handbook for Building an Endowment Fund in the Local Church -- 9 Parts
Then go to:
1. The Place of Endowment Funds in the Local Church 2. How to Set Up an Endowment Fund 3. Sample Endowment Resolution (You can use this as a template to make the endowment resolution for your own local church.) 4. Gifts People Can Give to Your Endowment Fund 5. How to Market an Endowment Fund 6. Endowment Primer: The Basics and Background 7. Resources for Local Churches for Giving to Endowment
Finanances and Investment Information
1. Financial Policy for a Local Church 2. UM Foundation Report on Fund Performance
Newsletters -- "Local Church Endowment Focus"
Newsletter Blurbs Archive (You can use these blurbs in your local church newsletter to help market planned giving to your members.)
Planned Giving -- Vehicles and Policy
1. Gifts People Can Give to Your Endowment Fund 2. Things a Pastor can Do to Encourage Planned Gifts 3. Encouraging Planned Gifts for Local Church Endowment 4. Memorial and Honor Giving in the Local Church 5. Charitable Gift Planning in the Local Church
NEW! 6. Steps for Receiving Gifts of Stock and Other Securities in the Local Church
7. Introduction and General Items 8. Specific Gift Policy Items 9. Specific Gift Marketing Strategies 10. Tax Consequences for Specific Gifts 11. Procedures and Practical Considerations for Each Gift Type
Raising Funds
1. What is The "Case for Support?" 2. Games Church People Play 3. Prospect Capability Matrix: 4. Who can Give How Much? 5. A Capital Campaign Gift Pyramid: 6. Where Will the $$ Come From?
1. Workshops Available to Come to Your Church 2. More Workshops Available to Come to Your Church 3. Frequently Asked Questions 4. Keeping Fund Raising "Spiritual"
Stewardship Assistance
1. Stewardship Strategies & Issues for Local Churches 2. Stewardship & the Individual Spiritual Journey
