{"id":8591,"date":"2019-06-12T13:48:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8591"},"modified":"2019-06-12T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:52:12","slug":"what-do-you-want-to-hear-from-the-people-you-donate-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8591","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Want to Hear from the People You Donate to?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhatDonorsWant\"Super Short Summer Survey #1<\/h3>\n

By Shane Bennett<\/p>\n

The next three Practical Mobilization columns will be devoted to mining the collective brilliance of the Missions Catalyst tribe.<\/strong> Thank you in advance for taking a few minutes from your elongated days (or nights, friends in the southern hemisphere!) to share your thoughts. They matter.<\/p>\n

Somewhere high on a long list of kindnesses God has extended me is the strong sense that there is much, very much, that I don\u2019t know. <\/strong>Like how to manage money, for instance. This has never been natural or easy for me.<\/p>\n

Recently, in an additional kindness, God connected me with a financial coach.<\/strong> (If you could use a financial coach, shoot me an email<\/a> and I\u2019ll connect you to my guy.) He is wise and Jesus-y, and he makes me do hard stuff. He says hard stuff like, \u201cShane, I want you to call every single one of your donors once a year.\u201d Ack! That works about to three a week. So far, I\u2019m batting about .800 for the month since he gave the assignment.<\/p>\n

This has me thinking, though.<\/strong> How many of my donors really want to talk to me on the phone? If you call me, you\u2019d better be bleeding out your eyes or offering me a speaking gig! But Brian asserts this is a component of my ministry. Calling donors, asking how I can pray for them and actually doing so while on the call will bless people. (He also says it will help my support!) So I submit.<\/p>\n

But I also wonder. <\/strong>What types of communication, and at what intervals, do donors really want? Personally, I\u2019d like to hear more from the friend to whom I give a small monthly gift. At the same time, I have a dear analog-only donor who\u2019s given monthly to my work for decades with, sadly, almost no information from me.<\/p>\n

You probably donate money to support-based workers.<\/strong> You may also live on the gifts of others who give to you. Would you help all of us by taking two minutes to fill out this brief survey<\/a>? The insights and experiences of our Practical Mob tribe will be helpful to many.<\/p>\n

Thank you to the kind folks at Pioneers<\/a>, Support Raising Solutions<\/a> and Stewardship Ambassadors<\/a> for their input on this survey.<\/p>\n

One respondent will be chosen at random to receive a US$25 Amazon gift certificate, so answer away<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super Short Summer Survey #1 By Shane Bennett The next three Practical Mobilization columns will be devoted to mining the collective brilliance of the Missions Catalyst tribe. Thank you in advance for taking a few minutes from your elongated days (or nights, friends in the southern hemisphere!) to share your thoughts. They matter. Somewhere high … Continue reading What Do You Want to Hear from the People You Donate to?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practical-mobilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8596,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions\/8596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}