By Beverley J McLain, MBA, CAP® Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy McLain Consulting LLC Get set up for success. There is a wealth of anecdotal evidence out there about reasons why planned giving programs don’t work as expected. Unrealistic expectations and a lack of commitment from leadership are two key ones.…
Republished with permission from The Giving Block. Less than 1 percent of nonprofits accept cryptocurrency donations. Fifteen years ago nonprofits were skeptical about credit card donations. Now almost all accept them. Cryptocurrency will follow a similar trend except, in this scenario, there are additional benefits. 1. Do you want your…
A popular free plugin that made it easy to add PayPal buttons to your website is now seriously outdated; the developer has stopped maintaining it and now charges $59 per year per website for his new version of a plugin that always has been free. If you maintain your own…
Friends of Ministry builds in all of the features and benefits found in the most effective church websites, and we do more. Here are 13 reasons our clients love the websites we have built for them. Scaled to Each Church’s Budget Our web development and hosting packages are priced so…
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If your website is not attracting Sunday visitors and engaging your members, you’re not alone. Two out of three churches consider their websites ineffective, according to Best Practices in Internet Ministry, a study by David T. Bourgeois, Ph.D., associate professor at Biola University’s Crowell School of Business. That’s the bad…
The process of building pages and posts with WordPress changed dramatically on December 6, 2018. Until then, the WordPress editor had been one constant in a world of change… the editor was the old friend you knew and could count on whenever you needed to create a new web page…
If you’re thinking your church needs an app, you’re probably wondering what a church app is going to cost. Here are published costs of some of the leading apps for churches, current as of early June 2018. Before you buy, though, please read Do You Really Need a Church App?…
Is your ministry thinking about investing in a church app? Maybe you’ve been approached by PushPay or Tithe.ly or Subsplash or another purveyor of digital goods and, understanding the importance of keeping up with technology, have been convinced that spending a few extra hundred dollars a year for a church…
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