Upcoming Webinars
TENS offers webinars throughout the year to vestries, stewardship committees, dioceses, and provinces to help prepare lay and clergy stewardship leaders for pledge campaigns and to talk about year-round stewardship. To sign up to receive notifications as soon as we release a new event, please register at our Eventbrite page http://theepiscopalnetworkforstewardship.eventbrite.com
Previous Webinars and Slide Decks
2025
Evaluating Your Pledge Campaign & Preparing for the Next One
Topics Covered: Learn how to be ready to accept youngest members through volunteerism and discipleship Explore general trends around robust and authentic intergenerational giving
Finding Your Stewardship Love Language – 2025
Learning how your members connect to your mission will help you create campaigns that enlist their gifts of time, talent, and treasure. Learn how the
2024
Attracting & Retaining Millennial and Gen-Z Members
Topics Covered: Learn how to be ready to accept youngest members through volunteerism and discipleship Explore general trends around robust and authentic intergenerational giving
Evaluating Your Campaign Performance: 2024
Topics Covered: Learn how to analyze data Get ready for next year’s campaign: formation, preparation, practical tools
Finding Your Stewardship Love Language
Topics Covered: Learn how your members are motivated to share their gifts by the way they give and receive love. Review the words of Jesus
Pledge Campaign Best Practices for 2024
Topics Covered: Reverse the trend in giving and attendance in our congregations to be more sustainable. Review best practices for effective stewardship campaigns and plan
The Other T’s: Focusing on Time and Talent
Topics Covered: Create campaigns that focus on holistic giving – honoring our Time and Talent as well as our Treasure
2023
Best Practices for 2023-2024 Pledge Campaigns
Topics Covered: Tips on how to talk about money in challenging times Overview of your pledge / promise card Liturgical Tools for your campaign Review
Breaking Through the Pledge Plateau – 2023
Topics Covered: Analyze trends in your donors / members Teaching and Preaching about mission How to inspire members to make their best gifts Review of
Motivations for Intergenerational Giving – 2023
Topics Covered: Best practices for recognizing generational difference in fundraising Materials matter – shaping up your Stewardship materials How to motivate and retain Millennial and
2022
Campaign 2022: Ready, Set, Launch!
Review strategies for talking about money and faith; motivate members to make their best gifts; understand the 2022 TENS More Than Enough campaign tools. Your
Evaluating Pledge Campaign Performance – 2022
Learn best practices to identify trends and learn from your past campaign in order to prepare for the next one.
Motivations for Intergenerational Giving
Learn Best Practices and Tools to combat and navigate donor fatigue in pledge campaigns and to foster mission-inspired giving in congregations
Breaking Through the Pledge Plateau
Learn Best Practices and Tools to combat and navigate donor fatigue in pledge campaigns and to foster mission-inspired giving in congregations
Making the Case! Designing for Impact
Topics Covered: Creating Compelling Case Statements and Materials for Congregational FundraisingWhy provide a case for supportGenerational differences in donor motivationThe art and craft of making
Virtual Stewardship 201
Topics Covered: Why your congregation should offer online giving optionsBest practices for using social media, websites, and mobile campaigns for faith-based fundraisingRound-up of the best-performing
Year-Round Stewardship Practices
Topics Covered: Understand why fundraising and stewardship are related, but separateAdopt and teach a practice of generosity in your personal life and for your congregationAdvanced,
CARES & SECURE Act Implications on 2020 Taxes and Giving
Topics Covered: Learn how the CARES and SECURE Act change your taxable income for 2020Discuss some best practices for making gifts from retirement accountsGeneral Planned
Creating Virtual Community for Stewardship
Topics Covered: Creating meaningful small groups around stewardship virtuallyFormation for stewardship, adult education and rector’s forumsPushing the boundaries of digital connection to create deep community
Deepening Your Stewardship Formation
Topics Covered: How to form your flock theologically for stewardshipTools and practices for year-round stewardship teachingStrengthening small groups through story-telling
Planned Giving, Legacy Societies, & Endowments – The Basics
Topics Covered: How to start a new legacy society in your congregationReview of resources, books, and pamphlets church planned giving programsDetailed review of planned giving
Using the TENS Resources Virtually
Topics Covered: How to use the TENS Resources for virtual fundraisingCreating small groups for stewardship
Virtual Events, Galas, & Auctions for Church Fundraising
Topics Covered: Your annual fundraising event can still happen – online!Bake sales, talent shows, church dinners, auctions, and moreReview of common auction softwareBest Practices on
Virtual Stewardship 101: Pledge Campaigns & Virtual Offering Plates
Topics Covered: Review of Common Virtual Offering Plates and Online Fundraising Best PracticesVirtual Pledge Campaigns – the new normal
Making the Case! Designing for Impact
Topics Covered: Creating Compelling Case Statements and Materials for Congregational FundraisingWhy provide a case for supportGenerational differences in donor motivationThe art and craft of making
Breaking Through the Pledge Plateau
Learn Best Practices and Tools to combat and navigate donor fatigue in pledge campaigns and to foster mission-inspired giving in congregations
Motivations for Intergenerational Giving
Learn Best Practices and Tools to combat and navigate donor fatigue in pledge campaigns and to foster mission-inspired giving in congregations
Campaign 2022: Ready, Set, Launch!
Review strategies for talking about money and faith; motivate members to make their best gifts; understand the 2022 TENS More Than Enough campaign tools. Your
Best Practices for 2023-2024 Pledge Campaigns
Topics Covered: Tips on how to talk about money in challenging times Overview of your pledge / promise card Liturgical Tools for your campaign Review
