Funding Reproduction

Tom Jones & Troy McMahon www.stadia.cc

 

1. Make clear what you are going to do.
   
2. Start with a team and require every member to raise funds.
   
3. Branding and top-quality media to communicate who you are and what you are doing.
   
4. Make an exhaustive list of individuals, churches and organizations that might support you.
   
5. Once you create a list, work the list.
   
6. Ask for continued support and special gifts.
   
7. Have in mind what you want people to give. Ask specifically, ask for more than think you will get.
   
8. Don't give up. If someone says no, ask again and keep asking.
   
9. Over-communicate THANKS!
   
10. Send updates regularly.
    
11. Ask supporters to visit, to become personally involved, to pray.
    
12. People have different pockets for different things. Be creative in trying to get people to open their pockets. (BABY CHURCH SHOWERS – for new church plants).
    
13. Make goal to be self-supporting with 2 – 5 years, and communicate that to supporters.
    
14. Have good receipting systems.
    
15. Have fund-raising team
    
16. Build fund-raising into your reproductive DNA.