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Eight Practices For Effective Online Giving

Eight Practices For Effective Online Giving

I’ve spent a lot of time on church websites recently. Like, dozens of hours on hundreds of websites! Along the way, I noticed some trends about online giving. Having grown by 21% in 2020 alone, this is an area of leadership that deserves our full attention. Here are eight online giving practices that effective churches are doing right now. 

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November 22, 2022by Phil Taylor
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Generosity Strategies & Tactics Podcast

Recently, I had the chance to chat with Chris Willard at Leadership Network for his Generosity Strategies & Tactics Podcast. On it, I talk through some of the ways we have engaged in follow up after the end of our big generosity initiative last year. I’m posting the audio below. You can also just search for it on i-tunes and subscribe to the podcast. I think you’ll enjoy all of the episodes and interviews that Chris has done. Enjoy!

November 3, 2016by Phil Taylor
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Pledge Reminders That Don’t Suck

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My church just came through a pretty significant Generosity Initiative. The big question that many of our staff asked was “Will people actually give what they committed this time?” Because last time we did this, we had a low percentage of people actually follow through. But was it entirely their fault?

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January 23, 2016by Phil Taylor
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Stage Design For Your Generosity Initiative

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I’ve been posting a lot about our generosity initiative over the last few months. In fact, I haven’t really been posting about anything else because this project has been dominating my days and nights. Today I want to talk about stage design for a generosity initiative.

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December 22, 2015by Phil Taylor
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Creating A Separate Webpage For Your Generosity Initiative

We’ve just come through our Generosity Initiative at Mosaic Church. One of the most important things that we did that I have not posted about yet is the special website. We discussed making it a separate URL but ultimately chose to make it an extension of our normal site, thisismosaic.org . So we went with www.thisismosaic.org/getloud .

I want to point out a few things about the site.

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December 15, 2015by Phil Taylor
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One last video on Generosity

We created a lot of videos to go along with our generosity initiative. This is the last one to post here. It’s from the week that we talked about Generosity in the Bible. What does the Bible teach about generosity and what is appropriate for others to step into at Mosaic.

December 9, 2015by Phil Taylor
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Generosity Initiative Video-World Change

Here is another video we created for our Generosity Initiative at Mosaic. This one is on World Change.

December 2, 2015by Phil Taylor
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More Generosity Initiative Videos

We are continuing in our Generosity Initiative at Mosaic Church. Here is a video we used in a sermon talking about Life Transformation. The kind of Life Transformation that can happen when we choose to Get Loud for the Gospel.

November 20, 2015by Phil Taylor
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Revealing Your New Building Via Video

Our church is out of space. I mean really out of space. The sanctuary at our largest campus is built to hold 400 people. We’re putting 550 chairs in that room, and seeing an average of 525 adults per gathering. It’s unpleasant.

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October 29, 2015by Phil Taylor
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Preview Video For Our Generosity Initiative

I’ve been writing about the Generosity Initiative at Mosaic. It’s been going really well in the pre-launch and private phase. In just a couple weeks, we’ll start the public phase. We had this super short preview video, almost like a commercial, created to promote things and get people excited. Check it out! It’s really fun to see this stuff coming to life on the screen after so many months of work.

October 4, 2015by Phil Taylor
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Choosing a Logo For Your Generosity Initiative

I’ve been writing about the generosity initiative that Mosaic Church is launching later this year. I’ve shared the process we went through in deciding to get some outside help. Then I shared the four basic stages of the plan. And lastly, I shared the way we came to choose the name and subtitle. We landed on calling our generosity initiative GET LOUD-Let’s Actually Change Our World. With the language decided on, we needed to figure out the look of it all.

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August 5, 2015by Phil Taylor
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Naming Your Generosity Initiative

What’s in a name? Can’t we just go before the people, tell them the needs and leave it at that? Do we really need to come up with a name and a logo? I asked myself these questions earlier this year as Mosaic church began planning it’s generosity initiative with the help of Generis and ultimately I realized that your people need an identity to attach to vision. It’s the way our minds have been trained to work in our culture, and to be honest it’s just good shepherding to communicate clearly. We spent a couple months working on the look and language of our generosity initiative. Here is how that went.

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July 25, 2015by Phil Taylor
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The Four Phases Of A Generosity Initiative

Earlier this year I wrote about our churches decision to hire a company that specializes in Generosity Initiatives. We are now well into the planning on this process and I’d have to say that it has gone extremely well. Our tasks are on track. The project is moving forward and we have greater clarity overall. Generis and our rep, Chris Willard have done a great job.

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June 11, 2015by Phil Taylor
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