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Healthy Boundaries and Access to Financial Information

by Meredith McNabb

Healthy boundaries are important in so many aspects of congregational life—and the financial matters of the...

Imagining a More Abundant Community

by Elise Erikson Barrett

Last month, I had the opportunity to represent Lake Institute (wearing my graduate student intern...

Education

Studying, teaching, and understanding the religious motivations for giving allows for more effective fundraising and outreach across the nonprofit...

Mutual Fund(ing)

Written By: Meredith McNabb

It’s been a full generation since sociologist Robert Putnam’s landmark book Bowling Alone (2000) described...

Philanthropic Imagination

by Dustin Benac and Erin Weber-Johnson

Crisis and Care: Meditations on Faith and Philanthropy gives powerful witness to the...

The More You Know

by Meredith McNabb

One of the findings from the National Study of Congregations’ Economic Practices (NSCEP) that has especially captured the...

Blessed in Order to Be Blessed Starter Kit

This collection of resources includes a bulletin and handouts which use parables and verses of scripture to inspire generosity.

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First They Gave of Themselves Starter Kit

This collection of resources includes bulletins and handouts which use anecdotes and verses of Christian scripture to inform and...

Free to Love, Free to Live, Free to Give Starter Kit

This collection of resources includes handouts and letters which inspire generosity using the freedom in Christ taught in Christian...