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1.
EXPERTISE - We have over
100 years of experience on staff and have helped to raise over
$100,000,000 for churches. We have been through many difficult
challenges and have a tremendous depth of knowledge regarding what
works in a church capital campaign. Our success is based on
experience, graduate academic training in organizational development
and the latest research on "why people donate".
2. SUCCESSFUL TRACK RECORD
- Our average church raises 300% of annual giving in a capital
campaign. We have raised as much as 700% of
 annual
giving in a capital campaign, and many of our churches report an
increase in annual giving of 10% in the year following commitment
Sunday. We like to think that we will raise the most money possible
in any given situation because we devote such attention to listening
to our donors. The real measure of success is: How do members feel
after the campaign is over? Our best references are the many pastors
who say when the campaign is over "We should have a capital campaign
every 5 years whether we need the money or not, because we now have
such great community spirit."
3. COMMUNITY BUILDING FOCUS
- After years of experience we have discovered that if we focus on
building the strength of the church community, the donations will
flow. Based on sound academic research on techniques for building
the cohesiveness of a group, our processes for questioning,
listening, dialog, visioning, involving and working together result
in a church that is much stronger after a campaign than it is
before.
4. SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT FOCUS
- At the core, at the center of every campaign is: Prayer, seeking
to align one's self with the divine, a deliberate, communal focus
that gets everyone praying in the same direction. This alone will
transform a church and usually there is a tangible result of the
prayer and activities. Stewardship
education can be a joyful experience of discovery of the power of
doing God's will. One of our top goals is to introduce the
non-donors to the almost mystical joy of pure altruism. There is no
greater experience than to discover what it is like to become an
instrument of God's will. Hopefully, this capital campaign will be a
life changing experience for some of your people. Ideally we will
facilitate a paradigm shift in the thinking about giving to the
church. When people drop the notion that it is a tax or penalty and
embrace that it is a "spiritual investment" that will yield
"spiritual prosperity" for a lifetime, then we will have truly been
a success.
5. VISION FOCUS -
Proverbs 29:18 - "Where there is no vision, the people perish." The
first step in the process is to define what success will look like
for the church. Noted author Scott Peck states in his book on
community building "… there is no greater way to build community
than to engage every member in the discussion about 'what is our
vision'." Once consensus is reached, we refer back to the vision
that we are seeking to implement throughout the campaign.
6. TAILORED APPROACH -
Each church is unique in its needs. The personality of the church
must be respected and its needs met. One size does not fit all. We
spend a great deal of time and effort developing a unique plan for
each church. This plan incorporates the activities and timing that
will meet the needs of the church.
7. PERSONALIZED ATTENTION
- Each of our consultants has a workload of only 2 - 3
churches at any given time. Most other consulting firms have a
workload of 10 - 20 churches at a time, per consultant. We spend
more time, more attention to detail and follow through than is the
norm.
8. PASSION - Our
consultants/campaign facilitators all have come to TCDF with a
mission in mind. They all want to serve churches. We all have unique
skills in fundraising, and all of us want to work in the church
world for spiritual reasons. It is a great joy to be able to do what
you were made to do while in a spiritual context.
9. COST - As a nonprofit
organization, we set our prices as low as possible so that every
church can afford top quality campaign assistance. Our cost for the
basic level of service is significantly lower than other campaign
consultants.
10. COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES
are available. Rather than burn out your pastor, our staff can
complete every task planned in the 500 - 700 hours usually required
to manage a campaign. We can do as little as the standard consulting
service in which we guide and coach you to success, and as much as
hands on management of every detail, attending every event and if
needed create a video or DVD.
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