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Powerpoint: The Parish Endowment

By Anthony Scott on February 11, 2016 in Endowment, Fundraise, Planned Giving, Strategic Planning

A working endowment not feeding the operating budget is a blessing. An endowment feeding the operating budget deprives parishioners of the joy of giving and creates cynicism.

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Powerpoints and More Powerpoints

By Anthony Scott on February 11, 2016 in Campaign Planning Study, Capital Campaign, Church growth, Communicate, Develop, Endowment, Envision, Evangelization, Facility, Fundraise, Grants, Lead, Major Gift, Manage, Ministries, Office Management, Parish Council or Board Development, Plan, Planned Giving, Projects, Resources, Stewardship, Strategic Planning

A collection of Powerpoint presentations for Orthodox parish and organization development.

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Five Essential Elements of a Successful Parish Leadership Development Program

By Anthony Scott on February 3, 2016 in Church growth, Develop, Envision, Lead, Manage, Ministries, Recent Posts, Strategic Planning, Volunteers

Build leaders. Then let the leaders build additional leaders. And so the parish grows and fulfills its mission.

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Is Your Parish Ready for Envisioning and Serious Planning? An Eight-point Check List

By Anthony Scott on February 2, 2016 in Develop, Envision, Lead, Manage, Parish Council or Board Development, Plan, Recent Posts, Strategic Planning

Prepare before jumping into envisioning and strategic planning

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Planned Giving is Visionary and Strategic Giving

By Anthony Scott on October 3, 2015 in Capital Campaign, Develop, Endowment, Fundraise, Plan, Planned Giving, Strategic Planning

Without vision and strategy a parish will be given a default future – NOT of its own choosing. Planned giving an important vision and strategy tool.

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Storytelling in Church Leadership – Introduction

By Anthony Scott on October 1, 2015 in Articles, Communicate, Envision, Lead, Strategic Planning

A series of articles by Patricia Fann Bouteneff on storytelling will explain how it is a powerful tool for effectively leading the parish.

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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

By Anthony Scott on August 2, 2015 in Develop, Lead, Manage, Parish Council or Board Development, Plan, Strategic Planning

If you want vision and strategy to succeed, it will be necessary to analyze, understand and engage the culture of the parish and be prepared for push-back.

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Strategic Action

By Anthony Scott on June 1, 2015 in Articles, Develop, Lead, Nonprofit Community, Plan, Strategic Planning

Parish planning is common. Effective strategic action is not.

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Ramp Up Planned Giving

By Anthony Scott on May 29, 2015 in Endowment, Fundraise, Plan, Planned Giving, Strategic Planning

Every parish should have an established and active planned giving program. The priest is a key player here inasmuch as he can articulate the vision and mission of the parish thereby inspiring parishioners to participate.

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Orthodox Parish Planning? Hint: It May not be what you think. Discover Parish Intentionality!

By Anthony Scott on May 4, 2015 in Develop, Envision, Facility, Lead, Parish Council or Board Development, Plan, Projects, Strategic Planning

The true purpose of planning is not to produce a written plan, though it is one of the desirable outcomes.

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Powerpoint: An Orthodox Parish Strategic Initiatives Fund

By Anthony Scott on April 28, 2015 in Church growth, Develop, Envision, Fundraise, Lead, Ministries, Parish Council or Board Development, Plan, Projects, Strategic Planning, Volunteers, Youth and Young Adult Ministry

Tired of dragging the parish kicking and screaming from one level of joy and freedom in the Kingdom of God to the next? Try a Strategic Initiatives Fund.

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15 Powerful Nonprofit Statistics for 2015

By Anthony Scott on April 27, 2015 in Articles, Campaign Planning Study, Capital Campaign, Endowment, Events, Fundraise, Grants, Mailed appeals, Major Gift, Nonprofit Community, Plan, Planned Giving, Resources, Stewardship, Strategic Planning, Update Post

Learn the environment. Define your mission. Claim your space. Apply professional fundraising methodology to gather resources and build spiritual involvement.

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Sample Template for a General Survey of the Parish

By Anthony Scott on April 17, 2015 in Communicate, Develop, Lead, Manage, Ministries, Plan, Services, Strategic Planning

Well done surveys with good reporting back to the parish is a wonderful way to listen to the community.

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What Growing Churches Do – Information from the U.S. Congregational Life Survey

By Anthony Scott on April 5, 2015 in Articles, Church growth, Evangelization, Lead, Ministries, Plan, Strategic Planning, Youth and Young Adult Ministry

Most of the material in this article is highly relevant for those parishes interested in adding new members.

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A Major Gifts Program for an Orthodox Parish

By Anthony Scott on February 23, 2015 in Major Gift, Strategic Planning

Every parish needs an ongoing major gift program and almost every priest needs coaching in this essential skill as part of effectively leading, managing and developing a parish.

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Meetings that Matter

By Anthony Scott on January 29, 2015 in Communicate, Lead, Manage, Parish Council or Board Development, Plan, Projects, Strategic Planning

How much time in a priest’s life of service is spent in meetings? What percentage of these meetings could be improved upon? How many of the meetings should have resulted in decisions, policy formulation and ACTION effectively taken to precipitate Godly change? Read on for immensely practical help.

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Many Wealthy Plan to Remember Charities in Their Estates – Does Your Parish Have an Endowment Program?

By Anthony Scott on January 15, 2015 in Endowment, Fundraise, Major Gift, Planned Giving, Strategic Planning

To remember the parish in one’s will is to look back upon life with gratitude and to look forward to the spiritual well being of future generations.

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Aging Congregations May Be Churches’ Biggest Concern

By Anthony Scott on January 9, 2015 in Church growth, Envision, Lead, Manage, Ministries, Strategic Planning, Volunteers

Unless current social trends change, Mainline Protestant churches will face an even bigger drop-off in coming years. This is very likely true for all churches – including the Orthodox Church.

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Six Attributes of the Strategically-Minded Priest

By Anthony Scott on January 5, 2015 in Envision, Lead, Manage, Strategic Planning

Jesus perfectly knew His present purpose and His ultimate destination. St. Paul spoke to individual communities but thought strategically about how the Gospel will be preached to all nations.

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Writing Goals and Objectives to Grow and Develop the Parish

By Anthony Scott on December 14, 2014 in Develop, Envision, Lead, Parish Council or Board Development, Plan, Strategic Planning

Without goals and objectives based on mission fulfillment the parish can easily wander here and there falling prey to “mission drift”.

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