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Improve Your Parish’s Online Giving Form
Your parishioners’ time is precious, and you want to make it easy for them to give; the number one way to do this ...
Offertory and Online Giving
Our team is always looking at ways to make giving to the local parish more convenient. For most people, that means ...
Social Media’s 80/20 Rule
Do you know social media's 80/20 rule? It's the same as the 80/20 rule in other areas of Catholic parish life. If ...
Parish Entry Point Giving
Parish entry point giving is a topic rarely discussed in Catholic churches. This week, take a few minutes to ...
Fundraising Letters or Emails?
It's an age-old question: fundraising letters or emails? If you’re responsible for your church's annual ...
Taking Prayer Requests Online
Maybe you take prayer requests at your Catholic parish, but have you ever considered taking prayer requests ...
User Friendly Online Forms
By now, most parishes have transitioned to online forms for event sign-ups, registrations, ticket sales and ...
The Value of an Email Address
When our team conducted a national research project focused on giving trends in Catholic parishes, we asked ...
Financial Transparency at the Parish
For centuries religious institutions were some of the most trusted organizations in most cultures. But in the ...
Online Giving Beyond Sunday
At CSM we are always encouraging our clients to optimize technology. Part of the optimization we recommend to our ...
Stewardship a Disciple’s Response
December 31 is just nine short months away, and with it will come year-end giving decisions for many of your ...
Use Bullets and Numbered Lists
Your pastor is busy. Your committee chairs have day jobs. Your volunteers are being pulled in a million different ...
You Get What You Ask For
The CSM team often works with pastors and staff that say, “We wish parishioners would increase their financial ...
Should Your Parish Offer WiFi?
Every year we are drawing closer to the moment when every man, woman, and child has an internet-enabled device on ...
Worst Fundraising Ideas Ever
Magazine subscriptions. Chocolate sales. Caramel corn delivery services. We've all participated in these sorts of ...
Appeals, campaigns, and events
Not all fundraising activities are created equal. All parish and school fundraising opportunities are unique and ...
Parish Planned Giving Seminars
It is no secret that the largest transfer of wealth in human history is starting to take place between Baby ...
Using AmazonSmile at Your Parish
According to Statista, there will be a projected 2.14 billion online shoppers by 2021. With these kinds of ...
Talking About Money at the Parish
Even as I typed the headline, I thought I might lose a few readers. Let’s face it, money is a difficult thing to ...
Picture Frames and Pinned Posts
With public Masses suspended across the United States, this past spring charitable contributions were in freefall ...
Growing Your Following
As social distancing and shelter in place orders began to take effect across North America this past spring, our ...
Mass times are published elsewhere
A few days ago we shared advice on how and where to update your Christmas Mass times (see here). But did you know ...
Publishing Parish Reports
A few weeks ago, this parish report, delivered via YouTube from a pastor in Oklahoma, caught our team's attention. ...
Who and How We Support
Months into the coronavirus pandemic, it's clear how much damage has been done across the globe. The consequences ...

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