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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 ...
Celebrating Baptisms in a New Way
How is your parish celebrating baptisms? Outside of the sacrament itself, there are lots of ways to commemorate a ...
Thanking Parishioners Well
With everything going on at your Catholic parish, it can be easy to forget that thanking parishioners well is one ...
Count Your Blessings at the Parish
When's the last time you took a moment to count your blessings at the parish? We've all heard it before: an ...
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 ...
Implementing Welcome Teams
Hopefully it's easy for new parishioners to register at your parish. What happens after a new household ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Power of Personal Invitation
You're getting bombarded with new programs every week - ministry programs that claim to lead hundreds into RCIA, ...
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 ...
Pray for them now
How many times has a parishioner or visitor asked you to pray for them or someone they love? I bet you get prayer ...
Families and the Collection Basket
As a kid, I was always really excited for the part of Mass when Mom and Dad gave me money to put in the ...
Using AmazonSmile at Your Parish
According to Statista, there will be a projected 2.14 billion online shoppers by 2021. With these kinds of ...
Using Parishioner Spotlights
Ever wonder about that new family two pews down from you? They have been attending Mass regularly, but you never ...
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 ...
A Return to Normalcy?
Is a return to normalcy coming soon? Even while social distancing continues around the world, it's time to begin ...
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 ...
Parish Cost-Benefit Analysis
As a parish, we are concerned with human persons, and yet so often we have tasks on our to-do list that keep us ...
Analyze Your Easter Collection
After the busyness of Holy Week, it can be difficult to muster to enthusiasm to analyze your Easter collection. ...

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