Richmond Oct 2011

      

The Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes, Episcopal Church Foundation

and the Diocese of Virginia Present

 

Creating the Church of the 21st Century:
a Morning of Leading, Learning and Networking

 

Who Should Attend?  Any parish interested in endowments,  annual campaigns, capital campaigns, and  successfully integrating small groups into your church's mission and outreach.

WHEN? Saturday, October 15th, 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
WHERE? St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 815 E. Grace Street, Richmond, VA

8:00              Registration and Coffee
8:30              Welcome and Introductions
9:00              Small Groups, Big Results: Revitalizing Community
9:45              Successful Annual Giving: Clarity, Communication, Celebration
10:45            Structuring and Governing Your Endowment
11:30            Lunch
12:00           Capital Campaigns
12:45            Closing Panel of presenters for Q&A, remarks, prayer, dismissal

The Workshops

9:00-9:45 Small Groups, Big Results: Revitalizing Community
Rebecca Hall, Small Groups and Volunteer Coordinator, St. David’s, Austin

Everyone wants to know and be known, and in large parishes, small groups can yield big results.  Small groups also serve as “ground zero” for pastoral care, Christian formation, evangelism and lay leadership development.  This workshop will cover the how-tos of starting and maintaining a small group ministry as well as hearing the strategy one church is using successfully.  We will break into small groups ourselves, share stories, brainstorm ideas, and gather information from one another.

9:45-10:30 AM Successful Annual Giving: Clarity, Communication, Celebration
Presenter: Frances Caldwell, Diocese of Virginia, Director of Development and Stewardship

Incorporating theology into good models of fundraising will benefit your church’s resources for ministries.  Take away practical suggestions for successfully re-energizing your church’s annual campaign to fund ministries which impact you, your church family and your community.

10:45-11:30 Structuring and Governing Your Endowment
Ken Quigley, Director, Investment Management Services, The Episcopal Church Foundation

Getting the structure of your endowment right is often the key to its success – as dull as that may sound. If you want to encourage legacy gifts to your church, you need to be able to explain how the money will be used, how it will be invested, how much will be spent each year, and who is in charge of making those decisions. Vision, purpose, and structure matter. Growing the endowment, even decisions about who manages the money, follow structure. 

12:00-12:45 Rebuilding Principal Through an Endowment Campaign
Maurice Seaton, Senior Program Director and Head of Capital Campaigns, Episcopal Church Foundaiton

It’s hard to make up the 2007-2008 losses of 20% to 40% through capital appreciation and interest alone. So how about a capital campaign for your endowment? Examine the difference between a capital campaign and a special appeal, the process of a capital campaign for endowments, and examples of recent successful endowment campaigns.

 

THe Presenters:

 

REBECCA HALL has been the Small Group Coordinator at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Austin since 2007.  She created a program that has led hundreds of parishioners into  small groups and helped build community in St. David’s large, urban parish. Before working at St. David’s, Rebecca spent 12 years working for non-profit organizations that assisted indigent immigrants and refugees.  She has a degree in International Studies/Romance Languages from the University of Missouri – Columbia.  Although originally from Vermont, she has been in Austin for 12 years, and at St. David’s since 2003.  Rebecca is married to Bob Hall, and they have two children, Adam and Jonas.

 

FRANCES CONE CALDWELL came to the Diocese of Virginia in 2009 as the Director of Development and Stewardship. Her roles are to raise money for the ministries of the Diocese by increasing awareness of the work of the Diocese and to help churches develop sound year round stewardship programs.  A parishioner and the former Director of Stewardship and Development at St. James’s, Richmond, while there, she managed two capital campaigns, developed a large planned giving program, managed growing annual giving programs, and wrote successful grants requests.   Frances believes it is in giving out of our abundance that we experience spiritual growth and that our gifts must be celebrated and given with clear knowledge of how our ministry dollars are being used.  She has been involved in civic, educational and faith based fundraising for most of her adult life. Frances is a graduate of Mary Washington College where she majored in Economics.

 

KENNETH H. QUIGLEY joined the staff of the Episcopal Church Foundation in the summer of 2005 following a career in publishing and communications. His role at the Foundation is sometimes described as financial pastor, helping churches and dioceses work through the many issues involved in establishing, investing and growing their endowments. Prior to joining the Foundation, Ken was president and CEO of the Continuum International Publishing Group in North America with offices in London and New York. He led the Morehouse Publishing Group as president and CEO from 1995 through its acquisition by Continuum in 2002.  Prior to joining Morehouse Ken headed up his own marketing, advertising and public relations company serving many agencies and offices of the national Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, and numerous capital campaigns for Episcopal churches and dioceses as communications consultant.

 

MAURICE SEATON is Senior Program Director and Head of Capital Campaign Services at the Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF).  In this role he manages a team of a dozen consultants who provide capital campaign management services to Episcopal churches, dioceses, schools and other Episcopal organizations of all sizes.  He has served as an annual stewardship, planned giving and capital campaign consultant to a number of Episcopal churches and emphasizes the importance of integrating a spiritual dimension into raising funds.  Born in South Africa, Maurice is a lifelong Episcopalian and a member of Church of the Ascension in New York City, where he chairs the planned giving committee.  Prior to joining ECF in 2002, Maurice served as a diplomat to the United Nations.  He holds a Masters degree in Public Administration from New York University and is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.