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 GraceWorks' Annual Fund Seminar is presented by GraceWorks' partner,
Bob Rogalski, who is the Executive Director of the Lutheran Schools Development Center, a
non-profit organization, dedicated to assisting Lutheran preschools, elementary schools, and high schools in
funding and marketing.
What Is an Annual Fund?
An Annual Fund is a coordinated effort by your school's Development Team to plan an annual appeal which each year will provide an average of $30,000
- $150,000 for your Christian school. You
will find that after the first year, raising annual funds gets easier because donors “get in the habit of giving” to your school.
Why Start an Annual Fund Now?
WHY NOT?
Every Christian school has potential donors who would be most
happy to give, if only they knew your situation.
The Annual Fund provides these
donors the opportunity to support Christian education.
How is the Annual Fund Used?
The Annual Fund can be used for budget support or special programs, scholarships, salaries, facilities upgrades or needed equipment.
Your school sets the goal which may change
from year by year.
Who Does All the Work?
You will be happy to know that
the Administrator is NOT in charge. Instead, the Administrator recruits a Development Team
that is given a job description and trained at the Annual Fund Seminar.
To learn more about GraceWorks Ministries' Annual Fund Seminar, call (877)-9-FOR-R-KIDS (1-877-936-7754) to schedule a free, 45-minute, no obligation consultation.
A Closer Look at Our Annual Fund Seminar
What Can You Do to Start or Increase Your Annual Fund?
GraceWorks' Annual Fund Seminar will give you solid answers to this important question. Issues that are considered include:
• Development -- Defining Development, Development. . . . Not Fundraising, Total Development Program: Capital Campaign, Planned Giving and Annual Giving, 13 Steps to Success, Development Checklist
• Annual Fund
-- What Is
An Annual Fund? How Is the Annual Fund Used? Who Supports the Annual Fund?
How
Do You Generate Annual Fund Gifts? How Do You Ask?
Strategy Decisions, Setting the Goal, Table of Gifts, Gift Clubs, Matching Gifts, Memorials, Annual Fund Checklist
• Leadership
-- Annual Fund Chairperson, Spiritual Leader, Secretarial, Cultivation, Major Gifts, Phonathon, Recognition, Volunteers, Calendar of Events, Development Team Checklist
• Case Statement
-- Reasons for a Case Statement, The 5 Parts of the Case Statement, The 4 “Don'ts” of the Case Statement, Case Statement Checklist
• Direct Mail Appeal
-- What Is Direct Mail?, Segments of the Mail Appeal: Mailer, Cover Letter, Brochure, Reply Card and Return Envelope, Direct Mail Checklist
• Donors
-- Whom Do You Ask?
Donor Target Circle, Prospective Donor's Checklist
• Phonathon
-- Whom Do You Call?
Who Does the Calling? Location, Date and Time, Material Needed, The Night of the Phonathon, Phonathon Checklist
• Major Gift Prospects
-- Prospects, Finding Them! Cultivation of Prospects, Process of Obtaining Gifts, Donor Life Cycle, Major Gift Checklist
• Asking
-- One-on-One Asking, Dealing with Fear, How to Ask, Asking for the Lead Gift, Tips on Asking, Asking Checklist
• Recognition
-- Showing Appreciation through: Correspondence, Gifts, Special Events and Annual Reports, Tips on Expressing Recognition, Recognition Checklist
• Record Keeping
– Prospect/Donor Reference Card, Donor's Permanent Record Card, Phonathon Call Record Form, Computers, Record Keeping Checklist
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