Fewer people make donations. What to do? A short primer on generosity.

Encouraging generosity with no strings attached. Talking about bequests at church.

The gifts we cannot see: offering prayers for digital giving like pre-authorized giving and online giving.

A poem about February generosity: is extraordinary grace is just ordinary grace, repeated?

How big is a small church? Canadian data on receipted giving suggests above/below $80,000 in receipted giving might be a helpful metric.

Should board members give? A board’s role in fundraising and research on board giving from the In Trust Center for theological education.

The dangers of seeing a church as “uniquely friendly” become more apparent when members can’t imagine worshipping anywhere else.

Book review of Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black women’s philanthropy during Jim Crow by Tyrone McKinley Freeman.

This book explodes the narrow definition of philanthropy as something only rich white people do.

“I am unlike your white friends who have waited until they were rich and then help but have in proportion to my success, I have reached out and am helping others.” Madam C.J. Walker.[1] So begins this excellent book on Madam C.J. Walker’s life of generosity.

Walker and other black female philanthropists didn’t help only when they had free time or extra money; they always helped. Consistency. Walker was consistent in her giving, from when she had little to when she was wealthy.

Walker provides an excellent role model for generosity. I’m grateful to Tyrone McKinley Freeman for telling her story so well.

“Whatever I have given away, I have never, ever missed it…” How being generous with a little helps us to be generous with a lot. And a story featuring the Ford Motor Company.