The annual fund can be the most exciting, nerve wracking and ultimately fulfilling aspects of fundraising. By providing information your donors enjoy receiving, words can create action. Stewardship Survey Ask the Authors. The leading cultural and spiritual question of the current era is how to make wise decisions in an age of affluence . The implication for charitable giving is that we will increasingly find affluent and wealthy individuals across all generations and business backgrounds tending either to freely give as a path to care for others and happiness for themselves, or to politely meet quotas.
Some charities have up to now been too much like some churches.
Because charities feel they are doing God's work, they think they can tell others what to do. Like those churches, charities will always find adherents who will do some of what they are told, but even then many do so only grudgingly. Those that don't, even when they appear successful, will accomplish only a fraction of their potential. Discover what Paul Schervish and John Havens reveal in Recent Trends and Projections in Wealth and Philanthropy . Read Paul Schervish's recent editorial on estate tax in The Chronicle of Philanthropy .