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Our Services
Since 1990, the scope of our services to clients has continued to expand to meet the growing needs of church and para-church communities. Our expertise in annual, capital and endowment funding sets us apart as one of the few truly comprehensive agencies in the world.
We have conducted successful campaigns throughout the USA including Alaska, Canada, England, Ireland, and Spain. Our services are biblical and universal and have been tested and refined over time to offer the maximum impact to our clients. We can help with your needs in the area of Ministry Advancement and Financial Growth.
Take a look at these management, resource, and leadership services, to see how we can best serve you.
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Annual Fundraising
The backbone of an organization is faithful monthly giving from people who love and appreciate the ministry. Our strategy is composed of 5 time-tested fund raising methods. That methodology is applied to the five key giving markets or sources of gift income. We offer a 12 month plan with acquisition and cultivation strategies for every level and type of donor. Annual growth of new dollars and new donors is the foundation of our annual funding approach. Board Training
Your board recruitment, orientation, and training as co-labors with you are critical success factors in your organization. Use these “3’s” to ensure your board members understand their role: “Work, Wisdom, and Wealth;” and “Influence, Affluence, and Time.” Are your board members investing those elements with their “Time, Talent, and Treasure?” Let us encourage your board to buy into your mission and vision and become “fund raiser and friend raisers.” Through training and the creation of a board job description and performance expectation, they can help you govern, become consultants for your organization, and, most of all, become ambassadors to help you promote and expand your ministry. We can present the Carver or the modified Carver model for board governance.
Our board retreats include topics like:
• Board structure and strategy
• Job description and performance expectations
• The role of the board in fund raising
• Monthly and annual dashboard indications
• 35 critical things that board members must know and understand
Capital Campaigns
$800,000 to $35,000,000 was the gift goal range of the successful campaigns we helped our clients conduct last year. A campaign is a series of organized events and activities with a specific time line and dollar goal. We will lead you through the 4 phases (the study, the quiet/leadership phase, the campaign, and donor maintenance phase). We will provide a campaign consultant and/or resident campaign manager. No boiler plate plans, we tailor each campaign to your specific and unique circumstances. We will help you identify and solicit funds for the critical 3 P’s in your organization - Program, Personnel, and Property – proven by hundreds of campaigns, to be the hot buttons of capital campaign donors.
Church Stewardship Campaigns
We offer 3 comprehensive programs for churches: Stewardship Life, Stewardship Journey and Stewardship Emphasis. All churches do not function the same way and these unique programs promote the wise investment of time, talent, and treasure in congregations and parishes around the world. From a congregational readiness study to campaign fulfillment programs, we will lead you through the critical steps of success. Moses conducted the first successful campaign recorded in the scripture. We feel it is an excellent model and we use Moses and Aaron’s plan to guide all of our stewardship programs. The task of discipling stewards in your congregation is very important. Let us show you how to convert participants into stewards.
Development Assessments
The AMA recommends an annual physical for most Americans. Yet many organizations have never taken a good hard look at critical dashboard issues that can and will impact their delivery of services now and in the future. Strategic direction, donor and board perception, client and customer satisfaction, organizational strengths and weaknesses, and review of staff performance based upon expectations are just a few of those critical dashboard indicators. With over 100 years of collective experience and over 1,500 ministries served, we will interview board, staff, share holders, and clients and provide recommendations that will allow you to be more efficient and effective. Avoid mistakes and maximize opportunities with a thorough organizational, physical, and ministry advancement diagnosis.
Development Staff Training
Beginning with the Professional Dynametric Programs we can help you hire and retain the right people. Our JobScan program is a quick screening tool that provides accurate results . . . improves new employee selection, draws more qualified individuals to apply, matches people to tasks. You will experience fewer turnovers and more successful hires. Our TeamScan analysis process will help you discover and build on the strengths of your team. We can also help you select an appropriate donor information system and help you make use of the information in your system.
Direct Mail
The backbone of most development strategies is a good direct response program. Imagine this - a donor letter is like passing the plate at Church. Most of us don’t give every time the plate is passed nor will everyone give every time you send them a letter. However, it is a valuable communication tool for your donor base. We can provide concept, copy and recommendations on every type of DMK (Direct Mail Kit) which includes a letter, a #10 carrier envelope, a #9 BRE (business reply envelope), and a response device. Let us help you increase your return on investment in your mailing program today. Soup to nuts we have the experience, expertise, and knowledge to allow you to be more effective in your direct response. Direct Mail is just another step in your comprehensive development strategy.
Estate and Gift Design
The US Government indicates somewhere between $14-17 trillion will change hands from baby boomer parents to their children over the next 10+ years. Are you ready with an effective way to share with those mature stewards your present and future needs? Are you ready to show them how their accumulated assets could benefit your organization now and well into the future? This unique stewardship service and educational process through print, e-mail contact, and personal visits can make a significant impact on your endowment funding needs. Let us help you by providing the research, strategy, materials, promotion, and implementation of your planned giving program.
Executive Searches
Since 1994 we have conducted executive searches, matching up the right person with the right position. We have facilitated successful searches for College Presidents, Vice Presidents of Institutional Advancement, Major Gift Officers, Headmasters, CEO’s and other development professionals. We will help you create a job model using a dynaometric tool; using science and art, we match the person with the role. We have a base of qualified candidates and utilize empirical web based searches. E-harmony. com® is not the only group doing perfect matches these days—so are the men and women of TTG. Call us and let us help you with those critical key personnel decisions.
Feasibility/Pre-Campaign Studies
Organizations don’t plan to fail, they just fail to plan. Would you take a 2,000,000 mile trip without a plan and a road map? Our pre-campaign studies are designed to help you understand the length of the trip, the terrain, potential road blocks, and best practices in the capital campaign arena. The study will identify the urgency and feasibility of your plan and help you identify the human (volunteers and staff) resources and the financial (new dollars) resources you need to conduct a successful capital campaign. This important first step will help you identify and create a blue print for your effort with clear recommendations for the organization of your campaign team, timetable, fund raising tools (materials), budget, and more.
Fund Raising Dinner Events
Yes, they still work. Yes, they are cost effective. Yes, you can ask for cash and pledges. Yes, you can ask for multi-year commitments for your capital campaign. We have just debunked the fund raising dinner myths. You don’t need to discontinue your dinner events, you need to look at a brand new way of planning, implementing, and following up. Our 6-8 committee structure has worked very effectively all over the USA, Canada, and the UK. You can target a specific market (age, demographic, project orientation, location, affinity groups, etc.) and speak specifically to their hot buttons. Volunteers are one of our key components. Job descriptions, performance expectations, and careful follow-up will ensure you reap long term ROI (return on investment).
Major Donor Programs
“Big dollars in America are almost never given…they are almost always Asked For.” Moses conducted a major donor program in Exodus 25; we recommend you do the same. Ask those with gold, silver, and bronze to give generously. A five step program of Research…Romance… Request…Recognition…and Recruitment will prepare you to share your story with high capacity donors. Yes, we also make “house calls” with our clients to teach them how to share and to make the Request. From Research all the way to Recruitment, we have helped many clients experience growth by asking for and receiving gifts from major and mega donors. The book “Major Donor Game Plan…Rounding Third and Heading Home,” will soon be available to you on our web site.
Mentoring & Development Coaching
The Timothy Group is recognized throughout the world for the teaching, training, and discipling of development officers, CEO’s, college Presidents, board members, and volunteers. With well over 100 years of stewardship and fund raising experience, and over 1 billion dollars raised, we can help you implement a comprehensive annual, capital, or endowment funding program. Our publications, training material, and time-tested custom fund raising programs have allowed us to fish for ministries around the world, mentoring them to the point of helping them to fish. Our relational fund raising methods have been a leader in the industry for the past 16 years.
Phonathon
We will assist you in preparing materials, draft scripts, train callers, and analyze results. We will also help you select an appropriate vendor if your volunteers and staff are not able to make the calls. Planned Giving
Most ministries should have a planned giving program. Our Estate and Gift Design Program helps you put the building blocks in place including: printed materials, educational seminars, donor advice, proper involvement of professional advisors, and recognition of donors. We will help you develop your plan, create your materials, and identify the resources (volunteer, staff, and financial) needed to successfully carry out the program. Print & Electronic Media
We direct you in preparing information for use in print or electronic media, including your web site, to create positive awareness in your constituency. Professional DynaMetric Programs® (PDP)
The importance of matching up the right people with the right job is a challenge for every organization. A comprehensive tool that we have been utilizing since 1980 is the PDP series 400 profiles. This survey helps identify an employee’s strengths in the area of dominance, extroversion, pace, and conformity. It provides an objective perspective on energy level, energy style, decision making style, and stress level and defines how this person will fit into your existing team. PDP can be used to accurately define a Job Model and then compare candidates to that Job Model. This tool is effective for new hires, existing employees, and for your entire team. Special Events
One additional step in your comprehensive funding program is a series of quality group events. Yes, sit-down dinners still work if they are done properly. We helped an organization raise over $4 million dollars in a sit-down dinner event. We will show you how to select the right event for your organization: auctions, concerts, A-thons, dinners, briefings, small major donor events, golf tourneys, golf marathons, art sales—well, you get the idea. We have done them all over the past 25 years. Special events are hard work, but with a good volunteer structure you can share your story with many new potential donors and customers. We will be there as you carry out the plan, overcome obstacles, stay on a time table and within a budget, and, most of all, share your vision and raise new and renewed dollars for ministry growth.
Staffing
Correctly using the talents of your financial development team will result in a better program than mis-managing people. Our Team Scan Analysis will identify the educational, training, relationship and experience strengths and weaknesses of your staff. Our Job Description Analysis will match the talents of your people with the requirements of the job. Strategic & Long Range Planning
John Stott said, “Vision begins with a holy discontent with the way things are.” The process of charting a new course or an adjusted course for your organization can be a growing and defining moment. Clear definition of your mission, vision, core values, key results, SWOT analysis, and goal setting will lead you toward additional ministry growth and advancement. It takes a team effort of administration, board, staff, faculty, and share holders (donors). In a long week-end, or a number of carefully planned and orchestrated sessions, you can be on your way to mountain top experiences. Turn discontent into crystal clear vision and direction with The Timothy Group leading you through the process. When you come to that fork in the road…you will know which one to take. Create a road map for the present and, most of all, for the future.
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