Neill Coleman shares what secular philanthropy can learn from faith-inspired funders.
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While receiving gifts of stock involves additional steps on the part of the receiving ministry, the ability to make stock gifts lets donors make larger, more tax-efficient gifts. This guide will help your congregation understand how to receive and receipt stock gifts.
Across the globe, people raised within the contours of Judaism, Islam, Protestant Christianity, and Catholicism have all encountered religious teachings about the spiritual value of giving to benefit others. Here are tidbits Herzog has gathered over the years regarding calls to be generous in faith traditions.
This landscape analysis of the American generosity ecosystem summarizes what we currently know about the decline in giving and volunteering rates, with a particular focus on the “dollars up, donors down” (or “volunteer hours up, number of volunteers down”) dynamic and how it was manifested during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this short article, Rick Reinhard offers a helpful set of “Gos and Pauses" for faith communities who want to repurpose their properties for affordable housing—and he suggests alternative uses for religious properties as well.
A Presbyterian church transforms their unused manse (minister's house) into a home for Afghan refugees, and serve as community for the home's first tenants.
Churches in Wilmington, Delaware share their commercial kitchens so food entrepreneurs can grow their businesses.
Based on the responses of nearly 3,000 faith leaders and people of faith, this report uncovers key insights into the motivations and community needs driving religious giving and an outlook on future giving.
The congregation of Biltmore United Methodist Church sold their property and is devoting their energy and resources toward responding to Asheville, North Carolina’s most pressing social needs.
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