The Free Year-End Giving Toolkit
Explore the free resources that make up the downloadable Year-End Giving Toolkit
Introduce Stewardship Sunday to Your Church
This is a special Sunday right before Thanksgiving, to share the vision of where God's calling your church and invite people to generously participate before the hustle and bustle of the holiday season.
In the Stewardship Sunday Resources, you'll find:
- 5-week communication calendar for promoting Stewardship Sunday.
- Graphics including social media posts, stage slides and bulletin inserts.
- Easily editable images using Canva for free to adapt to your church's plans.
- Email and newsletter copy as well as worship announcement scripts.
Find these resources and more in this Toolkit.
Everything you need for a thriving year-end giving campaign
From goal planning to sermon outlines, these resources will empower you to create a rock solid year-end giving plan.
Planning Resources included:
- 4 Giver Personas to best shape and guide communication.
- 13-week multichannel communication calendar.
- Compelling vision framework to develop your messages.
- 12 generosity-themed sermon outlines with teaching notes.
- 25 names for your year-end giving campaign.
- 6 strategies for year-end giving success.
Capture the attention of your people
You have too much on your plate to create all the content needed for a year-end giving campaign. So we created it for you.
With these Engagement Resources you'll get:
- Social media graphic posts including captions and hashtags and stage slides.
- Weekly worship announcements scripts.
- Weekly email and newsletter content.
- Emails to recognize new and recurring givers
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Make the most of your Giving platform
From goal planning to sermon outlines, these resources will enable you to create a solid foundation for giving and empower you to create conversations around ongoing generosity.
Transition
- Prepping your recurring donors for an easy transition from a previous giving platform? If so, learn more about Donor Import.
- No need for a donor import? Read our Transition Timeline for some helpful tips in getting started and our Announcement Slides Sample Ideas
- Our Pre-Donor Import Courtesy Email Template makes it easy for you to guide your existing donors through this change.
- To learn more, contact us at client.engagement@ministrybrands.com
Planning
- Here's an Online Giving Rollout Timeline for the first three months of your giving platform. If you've had your giving platform for a while but have not discussed giving within your church, this timeline is also a great resource.
- To encourage discussions around generosity, see 12 Sermons to Inspire Generosity including scripture, main points, a call to action, and more.
- Only 19% who visit a donation page make a gift. Increase this with 12 Simple Steps to Optimize Your Ministry's Website to Grow Generosity.
- Use the Compelling Vision Framework Worksheet to help develop a powerful approach for your giving efforts.
Engagement
- If you are looking to engage your donors in a dynamic way, our downloadable toolkit includes email templates, social media graphics, newsletter templates, bulletins and more - all to promote giving in the first 12 weeks.
- To access Giving resources and other best practices, visit our Healthy Church hub.
