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 A solid major gift program is a powerful, often dramatic, way to improve the health of your
Christian school. You do not need to be in a capital campaign to do effective major gift work. GraceWorks provides everything you need to start or sustain a solid major gift effort, with guaranteed results -- and rates you can afford.
To schedule a free, 45-minute, no-obligation consultation, simply call:
1 (877)-9-FOR-R-KIDS (1-877-936-7754), or use the links below:
Why Christian Schools Need
A Solid Major Gift Program
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The
Bedrock for a Successful Capital Campaign and
Strong Capital Funding
-- The success or failure of your next capital campaign largely depends upon the
quality of your major gift fundraising effort.
Why borrow more than you need? A strong major gift program helps you set realistic goals for expansion, avoiding a "debt-squeeze" down the road that will cost your school dearly.
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Fiscal
Stability for Your School
-- Do donors actually give major gifts towards the general operation of your school?
It happens more than you think!
One major gift will dramatically
improve your cash flow.
Several major gifts give your school the cash reserves it needs.
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Special
Projects -- Everything from a new bus to a new floor for your gymnasium can be raised through major gifts.
(No, you do not have to do a fundraiser for everything!)
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Healthy
Board -- Major gift success dramatically improves your ability to attract the very best
Board members.
And vice versa -- an upward spiral for the healthy growth of your school.
With major gift success, your school becomes credible to people who otherwise would not consider helping you.
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Strong
Community Image
-- Large gifts speak volumes about the quality of your school to
parents and prospective parents as well as donors and prospective donors. Major gifts only help you improve enrollment and increase other annual fundraising efforts.
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Stronger
Annual Fundraising
-- The least expensive dollars you can raise are major gifts -- often 5 to 10 cents on the dollar. Fundraising by mail is typically twice or three times as expensive. Fundraisers are far worse -- notoriously expensive when you consider the real costs of staff and volunteer time.
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Longevity of
Your School
-- Many major donors become planned gift / estate donors as well -- providing
endowment and capital funding.
In addition, a solid major gift program will develop strong, bonded relationships with donors who will become major donors in the future.
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Start now!
A solid major gift program is the very best gift you can give your school for a healthy future!
GraceWorks offers an affordably priced major gift
coaching program.
The GraceWorks Difference
Hands-on Help
-- All GraceWorks' services are detail-oriented (Romans 12:8), affordable, and tailored specifically to the needs of your ministry. Major gift work is no exception. There are no cookie cutter solutions that work every time. As much as we all want "magic wand" fundraising solutions,
there are just a myriad of details that must be done well. GraceWorks doesn't just tell you what to do, we do it:
• If you
need case materials . . . we'll
produce them!
• If you need a major gift action tracking
system . . . we'll set
one up!
• If you or your volunteers need training .
. . we'll do it!
• If you need prospecting sessions . . .
we'll lead them!
• If you need another caller on your next visit . . . we'll go with you!
Plain Hard Work
-- The secret to effective major gift work? Plain hard work! It's hard work to put together your case for support. Developing an information system that empowers major gift contacts is not easy. Training and coordinating your
Board and volunteer team is difficult. And then comes the real work -- day-by-day contacts, cultivation, asking and closing -- multiple contacts for multiple donors.
GraceWorks guides you every step of the way, from over-all plan to volunteer training to donor tracking. We'll even go with you on major gift calls!
Unique Software Solution
-- GraceWorks' Graceful Giving / Goldmine technology solution means that your
donor information is immediately available to your GraceWorks' consultant, on-site or off-site. That means immediate, informed, intelligent help with major donor situations whenever you need it.
Biblical
-- GraceWorks' major gift program is a
carefully thought out blend of Biblical stewardship and proven major gift principles. Be careful -- anything less is dangerous for the future of your
Christian school! A purely secular approach will tend to secularize your school.
(Think Harvard
and Yale!) A purely Biblical approach often depends on the biases of the consultant (e.g. Do we ask for an amount, or not?)
To learn about the Biblical stewardship principles that guide GraceWorks,
click here.
Or, to request a FREE 10-page overview of the major gift process,
click here
To schedule a free, 45-minute, no-obligation consultation, simply call:
1-(877)-9-FOR-R-KIDS (1-877-936-7754), or use the links below:
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