GraceWorks' Unique Pre-Campaign Support Studies

GraceWorks' Pre-Campaign Support Study assesses levels of support for a project, guiding future action. Such a study is an essential first step for Christian schools contemplating a capital campaign.

Value. GraceWorks' Support Studies are comparably priced to the competition. However, through the advanced use of modern information technology, GraceWorks' studies offer:

With GraceWorks, you can afford to do your next capital campaign well. Start with the right kind of Pre-Campaign Study.

To schedule a free, 45-minute, no-obligation consultation, simply call:
1 (877)-9-FOR-R-KIDS (1-877-936-7754) or use the links below:

•	Reason #1: Realistic Goals and Timelines. The institutional cost of a failed capital campaign is very high. Many capital projects need to be completed in phased capital campaigns. A solid campaign plan flows from a thorough Pre-Campaign Study.
•	Reason #2: Objectivity. An outsider needs to do your study because an insider tends to hear what he wants to hear -- or the major donor tells the inside person what he wants to hear. Both significantly distort your results. Be careful -- a significantly inflated goal only looks good at the beginning of your campaign!
•	Reason #3: Major Gift Success. A realistic goal will motivate major donors who are reluctant to give to "pie-in-the-sky" goals. And your major donors will be glad you asked them first before you launched the campaign. Realistic campaign goals set the benchmark for leadership and other sacrificial gifts.
•	Reason #4: Identify Campaign Help. GraceWorks' Pre-Campaign Studies ask all participants what roles they would like to play in the capital campaign. These volunteer lists will save you months of recruiting time -- you'll already know who wants to do what!
•	Reason #5: Identify "Sleepers." Inevitably Pre-Campaign Studies identify major donors you would have never suspected. Large estate gifts become large major gifts during your campaign -- because someone asked! True in life as well as fundraising: it is simply amazing what people will tell perfect strangers. Let God use this very human tendency to build your next facility!
•	Reason #6: Case for Support. What are the real reasons donors support you? Why will they support your next capital campaign? Insiders typically think they know the answer to these important questions -- and study after study shows they do not. A Pre-Campaign Study insures your message is "on-target" with the donors who will make it a success.
•	Reason #7: Ownership. Asking for advice is one thing, asking for money quite another. When we ask major donors for advice, well in advance of a campaign, asking for money during the campaign works much, much better. Pre-Campaign Study interviews build ownership in your next capital campaign. It's no longer "their idea," but "our idea." This very important dynamic becomes the foundation for sacrifice in your capital campaign. "They" will not build the school: "We" will!
•	Reason #8: Misunderstandings. Identified and often eliminated before the campaign even starts. Pre-Campaign Studies identify the issues and concerns that become communication themes in your capital campaigns.
•	Reason #9: Systems. The middle of your capital campaign is not the time to find out your computer systems are inadequate, or your Chief Executive has no time for major gift work, or your Board is not unanimously behind the project. A GraceWorks' Pre-Campaign Study looks at every system that will impact the success of your capital campaign, from accounting to volunteers.
•	Reason #10: Other Helpful Information. What do you need to know? A Pre-Campaign Study is the ideal platform to answer your burning questions, from "Where should we re-locate?" to "What services do our parents want?" to "How many study participants would send their children to our school -- and what grades?" GraceWorks works closely with you and your leadership to develop a survey and interview process that asks exactly what you want to know.

Not a Feasibility Study -- GraceWorks' Pre-Campaign Studies are support studies -- not feasibility studies, an antiquated concept. We tell you how to get the support you need for the vision God has called you to do. This is not a "thumbs up / thumbs down" assessment of whether your expansion is feasible, but a detailed description of what you need to do to maximize your support.

Many More Face-to-Face Interviews -- Three to five times more than many conventional consultants. To you, that means more validity, with less projecting and statistical mumbo-jumbo. With all the face-to-face interviews, GraceWorks gets the nuances!

Thorough -- GraceWorks looks at everything that will impact your next capital campaign. GraceWorks analyzes all your key systems, starting with Board leadership and strategic planning, done by Dave Domsch, GraceWorks' specialist in that area. In addition, GraceWorks considers your staffing, administrator roles, information technologies, publications, public relations issues, volunteer structures and issues, everything that will make a difference to your campaign.

Volunteer Lists -- Your report will include recruitment-ready lists of study participants who expressed an interest in helping, one way or another, with expanding your facility. This will save you months of recruiting missteps, as well as campaign expense. Don't pay for someone to lay-out your campaign literature -- chances are we will find a volunteer! And once you've laid it out, let's get it printed, for free. A GraceWorks' Pre-Campaign Study does ask the volunteer and in-kind support questions that will save you significant time and money. We'll even ask enrollment questions!

User-Friendly Report -- GraceWorks prepares a user-friendly, highly graphical color final report, including a power-point presentation. Of course -- we'll present the findings of your study to your Board and the other leadership groups you desire.

Guaranteed Results -- GraceWorks guarantees your campaign results if you do both the Support Study and the campaign our way. Which means, we take the validity and numbers of Pre-Campaign Support Studies very, very seriously.

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To schedule a free, 45-minute, no-obligation consultation, simply call:
1 (877)-9-FOR-R-KIDS (1-877-936-7754) or use the links below: