What Defines a Major Donor and What Do We Do with Them?

What Defines a Major Donor and What Do We Do with Them? • September 2025 (Online Webinar) Who are the major donors for your ministry? Most non-profit organizations know and can clearly define what a major donor is for their context. However, in the work Chris and Broderick have done as Generis consultants, they have […]

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Generosity Matters | Spring/Summer 2025 Newsletter

Leveraging Church Property Can Sustain Your Mission Churches give great attention to how they spend their money to support their mission. Likewise, churches should consider their land and buildings as shared assets of the community of faith to be used to the maximum for the mission. The most obvious use of a church’s property is […]

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Leveraging Church Property Can Sustain Your Mission

Churches give great attention to how they spend their money to support their mission. Likewise, churches should consider their land and buildings as shared assets of the community of faith to be used to the maximum for the mission. The most obvious use of a church’s property is for worship, education, fellowship, and community service. […]

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Upcoming 2025 Game Changing Leadership Webinars

Learn more and register for 2025 Foundation Game Changing Leadership webinars! Game Changing Leadership events focus on a variety of financial topics and needs within the church, including, but not limited to, fostering a generous culture, developing financial leadership skills, developing and implementing planned giving/legacy giving, and improving personal and church financial health. Each event […]

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Foundation Booths at Montgomery & Pensacola Conferences

Thank you for coming to see us at our display table at the 2025 Annual Conferences in Montgomery and Pensacola! We had a great time forming new relationships, catching up with friends, talking about our services and upcoming webinars, and sharing our ministry of generosity with you! Congratulations to our giveaway winners as well! What […]

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Spring 2025 Foundation Board Meeting

Our Board of Directors meetings are such a great chance to connect with leadership, celebrate the work of the Foundation across Alabama and Florida, and talk about current and future Foundation ministries and services. Our Board met in May at First UMC Dothan for the annual Spring meeting. We were able to recognize both Laureen […]

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Schedule a Foundation Workshop & Speaker

Did you know that the Foundation can send a representative to speak to your church about a variety of topics and Foundation services? The Foundation offers financial workshops for individuals and churches in order to help create a culture of generosity. These workshops are provided as a ministry and are free of charge.  Generosity workshops […]

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Father’s Day Resources 2025

Through your continued partnership, we are blessed to be able to faithfully provide services, ministries, and free resources to Methodist churches, organizations, and individuals. As a small thank you for your continued support of this ministry of generosity, please enjoy these Father’s Day resources. On Father’s day, we are reminded of all the fathers and […]

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Should a Pastor Be Able to See Giving? Why or Why Not?

Should a Pastor Be Able to See Giving? Why or Why Not? • May 2025 (Online Webinar) Pastors sometimes face the challenge and internal conviction of whether to “see” or “not see” individual giving. Similarly, church leadership may wrestle with deciding whether their pastor should have visibility of individual contributions. While it may seem like […]

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