Development Training & Coaching
Identify And
Maximize Long-Term Sustainable Resources
There is good news! There is a much better way – a more biblical way to do fundraising than most Christian organizations and churches understand. We offer extensive training to development staff and leaders that is absolutely transformational for both the organization and those who support them. Building upon a solid theology of development and a biblical worldview, fundraising becomes far more a spiritual exercise than a financial one – to everyone’s relief and delight!
You Want Ministry Partners, Not Just Financial Donors?
You Want Ministry Partners,
Not Just Financial Donors?
Most fundraising methods require intense efforts from the development team that often exhausts the organizations already limited human and financial resources often without seeing much significant fruit.
By turning your development department into a transformational stewardship to high-capacity families, you will now be able to serve these families instead of them always serving you. You can now help them become better stewards and in doing so enabling them to become much more generous and effective in how they manage and deploy the resources that God has entrusted them to manage.
You can now help these families become good and faithful stewards and at the same time be paving the way for your organization to much more effectively fulfill its mission. Combining a biblical worldview and a stewardship planning ministry together enables everyone to end up achieving “Maximum Kingdom Impact”.
Here’s What Other Christian Development
Leaders and Executives Are Saying
They have produced multiple seven-digit gifts to Answers in Genesis over the years through their work with our ministry partners. I cannot recommend their services highly enough for Christians who have been blessed with material resources and who want to have a meaningful impact on the world for Christ.
Achieve Long-Term Sustainability
Investing in Your Ministry Partners
CULTIVATE
We help you identify and cultivate your current and potential high-capacity families who share your vision
STEWARD
You will help them discover how to maximize the Kingdom impact through strategic, stewardship planning
PARTNER
You will help them find God’s will and purpose for their lives and how to most effectively live it out
Services We Provide To You
We seek to equip you to develop vibrant and intimate connections between your organization and your most affluent families through our comprehensive and intensive training and coaching services. Our team of seasoned mentors can help you create a biblically-rooted approach to building a transformational stewardship that will breathe new life into your fundraising efforts. It will make fundraising a spiritual exercise and not just a financial one while deepening your relationship and influence in the lives of your most well-resourced families.
With our comprehensive training and weekly coaching, we promise to not only boost your team’s spirit and morale, will also ignite a fresh and powerful perspective in the lives of your ministry partners by encouraging them to deploy their surplus assets to propel God’s Kingdom forward. We want to embark on this transformative adventure with you, fostering a philosophy that merges stewardship and fundraising with purpose
Inside The Training
(CFRE Approved)
Organizational Training (18 hours)
Empower your team with a solid fundraising philosophy that aligns seamlessly with your faith and mission. We will work on bridging any cultural or linguistic gaps, enabling you to communicate effectively and engage high-capacity partners who share your mission.
Addressing Your Organization’s Fundraising Philosophy (7 hours)
- Why and How to Develop a Biblical Theology of Fund-Raising.
- Your Fundraising Theology Should dictate your Fundraising Terminology.
Aligning Your Organization’s Fundraising Culture and Approach with Scripture (7 hours)
- The Bible on Possessions and Giving.
- Leading the Way Requires Knowing the Way (A New Focus and a New Culture for Giving).
Marketing and Messaging – Attracting High-Capacity Families (4 hours)
- How to have a formal, targeted role out of Stewardship Planning Ministry
- Private labeled materials (books, articles, videos, etc.)
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- Creating customized Newsletters
- Drip Marketing Strategies (What to do and not do)
Development Staff Training (24 hours)
In this section, you’ll gain insight into the world of extremely affluent individuals. This knowledge will enable you to overcome obstacles and develop significant connections. By doing so, you’ll unlock their stewardship potential and create strategies to help them achieve their stewardship objectives with your nonprofit as their vehicle.
Understanding the World and Opportunities of Your Highest-Capacity Ministry Partners (8 hours)
- Ten Unique Stewardship Dilemmas Wealthy Christians Face and How it Impacts Their Giving.
- Extraordinary Giving Opportunities for Extraordinary Believers.
Helping Your High-Capacity Ministry Partners Overcome Barriers to Greater Giving (8 hours)
- Asking the Right Questions is Essential to Getting the Right Answers.
- Identifying and Overcoming the Five Major Barriers to Giving.
- The Collision Between a Biblical and a Secular Worldview in Planning and Giving.
How to Have More Intimate and Productive Conversations with Your Ministry Partners (8 hours)
- Learning to Ask Ministry Partners the Right Kinds of Questions.
- Looking for Noncash Giving Opportunities – “Don’t Write that Check!”
Stewardship Planning Services Training (20 hours)
You’ll learn the whole process, including handling legal and tax issues. Most importantly, you’ll discover the key questions to ask your partners. These questions will encourage partners to share their deepest desires, enabling them to make the most impact through stewardship.
Understanding the Stewardship Planning Process (7 hours)
- The Five Phases of the Stewardship Planning Process.
- Diverting Tax Dollars to Giving Dollars
- The Three Essential Questions Affluent Families Must Answer to be able to do
Comprehensive Stewardship Planning and Optimizing Giving (6 hours)
- How Much is Enough for Us?
- How Much is Enough for Our Heirs?
- What Are We Going to Do with What’s Left Over?
- How Major Giving is Directly Connected to and Influenced by Inheritance Planning.
- Reviewing the Stewardship Planning Questionnaire used in the Discovery Retreat (getting to the giving conversations in the proper order)
- Case Studies – before and after results – exponential increases in giving.
Understanding the Stewardship Planning Tools and Strategies (7 hours)
- Understanding and Using the Charitable Planning Tools.
- The Four Key Stewardship Planning Techniques Used to Optimize Kingdom Giving.
- Combining Various Planning Tools to Further Optimize Giving.
- The Power of the Stewardship Briefing for Enhanced Giving (Content and Methodology).
Weekly Coaching Calls
We conduct weekly coaching calls to help you apply all that you are learning in the day-long, monthly training sessions and to hold you accountable for incorporating the needed changes in your own personal life and the culture of your organization.
These coaching calls also give you an opportunity to “pick our brains” and ask questions or advise you on specific ministry partner situations that you encounter. It is intended to be field experience coaching.
Certified Fund Raising Executive Approved!
Some of the materials provided by Stewardship Resource Group has been approved for CFRE credits towards the CFRE designation and/or for those who already have it as continuing education credits.
“His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’”
