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    Two weeks to raise a few hundred thousand dollars

    Posted on Saturday 16 December 2006 by Greg @ 9:13 am
    Filed under: Rants

    For those of you who don’t know it costs a lot to run a ministry like Dare 2 Share. We have 42 employees and a whole lot of expenses (conference venues, bands, office space, mailing costs, etc.) As a matter of fact our budget is around $5 Million Dollars this year. That’s a WHOLE lot of money.

    Now you may be thinking that our big, loud Dare 2 Share conferences bring in all of the money necessary to fund the ministry. Not so my friend. The income from our conferences cover half of that overall budget. The other half we have to raise from donors.

    Believe it or not out of those 42 people on the D2S payroll only one is dedicated to full time fundraising, Scott Harris. He is our major donor guy.

    In addition I typically spend close to half of my day raising money. Usually this means hours on the phone calling my friends across Denver, Colorado and the United States who have a heart for this ministry and asking them to write the check, send the cash, ante up the credit card or make the transfer (for the glory of God!)

    Some people tell me, "You must hate fundraising." Oh contrar. I love it! I love asking people to invest in eternal causes. I love asking people to make an investment in a ministry like Dare 2 Share that is going to have exponential impact on this generation. It is indeed an honor and a privilege to join in what God is doing at Dare 2 Share.

    Pray for us in these last two weeks of December. Scott and I (by God’s grace and through a ton of phone calls and meetings) have to raise a few hundred thousand dollars before toasts are exchanged (with sparkling apple cider of course) on New Year’s Eve.

    And, by the way, if you love Dare 2 Share and would like to make a year end donation to unleash a generation to change their world click here https://www.dare2share.org/donate/ and donate away! But before you do, won’t you make the commitment to share Jesus with someone before 1/1/07? If you don’t know how go to www.dare2share.org and find out! I’m asking you to consider making a year end gift to D2S. But more importantly I’m asking you to join our ranks of those who "dare to share." We have a mission to accomplish together.

    And please pray for Scott, me and the rest of our team as we do our year end push to fund this exciting  ministry.

    P.S. We have received a $500,000 matching grant so gifts of $1,000 or more from new donors will be immediately matched!

    P.S.S. Spread the word to your friends who love to give to eternal causes!

    P.S.S.S. Gifts of $10 are appreciated too…pretty much any gift we take as a blessing from our Almighty God!

    Signed, Greg Stier
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    3 Comments for 'Two weeks to raise a few hundred thousand dollars'

    1. On December 16, 2006 @ 9:35 am Becky said:
      • Greg-I will be praying for you.I’ll take the witnessing challenge to. ~Becky~ 

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    2. On December 17, 2006 @ 10:27 pm fordiym said:
      • I’ll be praying for the financial support you need. Our ministries yearly budget is anywhere near D2S’s, but I know what this time of year is like.

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    3. On December 21, 2006 @ 12:27 pm Brenda Canupp said:
      • Greg, God bless you in your efforts at fundraising!  It is indeed a daunting task, but one that God blesses because of who He is!   So, of course, don’t sweat it, just sweat in the fundraising efforts.  BTW, I spoke with Molly at Nashville conference and told her about igive.com.  Another charitable organization I know if uses that site to raise funds.  Basically it is an online shopping mall.  D2S would sign up as its charitable organization and then any joe or jane that e-buys can just go to igive.com and enter through their mall.  They have 100s of stores and common ones that everyone shops at too, but most of them give anywhere from 2-7% of the entire purchase amount to your charitable organization, which would be YOU, D2S.  I don’t know what you have to do to qualify or if it is an organization you want to align with, but I know I eshop ALL the time and every little bit helps and with the "database" of names you have, that could exponentially increase EASY fundraising.  Thought you might want to pass this on to ol’ Scottie boy and see if he wants to check it out.  BTW NoahsWish.org is my other charitable organization and they also collect empty ink cartridges and get cash for those.  On their website there is a link at the bottom for "cash for critters".  There are SEVERAL of these companies that you can sign up with, send out envelopes to all in your "database" and all they have to do is mail in empty cartridges (in a prepaid envelope) and there you go!  More "free" money.   Hope all this helps out in some way or another.  I know you will follow the Lord’s leading in fundraising and if He wants it, He’ll bless it! God bless and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you wonderful folks at D2S!!!!! 

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