Clark offered several points of practical advice. Better uses would include a scholarship fund, social justice work, or special projects for the congregation. By question and response, Clark and the audience members also volunteered advice. For example, and endowment committee may obtain an attractive remembrance and gifts book, and make sure that it is publicly and prominently displayed. Also, once a number of persons are known to have made a bequest to the church, the endowment society may create a bequest society.
Publicity generates interest in the society that in turn creates interest in giving.
The best person to ask is the one who has already made the commitment to give generously. Dr. Wayne B. Clark is Director of Congregational Fundraising Services of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Jerry King is a member of First Unitarian Church, Toledo, Ohio. There have been 228 accesses to this page since June 25, 2000.