Workshops

Funding the Mission Workshop

Church Fundraising for Outreach, Missions, Youth Groups, Evangelism, & Church Plants

Change is accelerating faster than we can keep up. While the traditions of fundraising and giving are challenged, new legal structures and financial engines are making resource available that we have never before been able to access. Donors, grant makers and our supporters all have new expectations and we need to keep up to sustain and grow our mission.

It’s called the new economy. And its the biggest opportunity for nonprofits and ministries in the last decade.

“We all know that growing your impact in missions requires resources, and David’s experience in developing new resources for mission is hard to beat. In an economic season like this, this is one workshop you don’t want to miss.” -Rick Rusaw, Pastor Lifebridge Christian Church, Author, ‘The Externally Focused Quest: Becoming the Best Church for the Community’


New ways to fund your efforts that reach beyond the ordinary.

  • New legal structures give us the opportunity to expand funding. Churches have six or more new choices for structuring charity.
  • New opportunities for organizations to get paid through royalties.
  • New technologies give us new ways to connect to donors.
  • New grant makers have new requirements that make it easier to be funded.

Join this information packed, critical update to your fundraising capacity. and discover new opportunities to be successful in raising funds.

  • Learn how new technology is changing the way donors communicate
  • Get a clear picture of new donor expectations of instant impact
  • Learn about new legal structures that can help you thrive
  • Learn the new rules of grant writing
  • Apply for a grant at the workshop

At this informative 6-hour workshop, we not only have critical information, but a grant that you can apply for during the conference. The grant makes available $5,000 to $50,000 in funds for those who qualify.

If you are raising money to church plant, support missions, support charity, fund a cause, or keep up the operations at a school, non-profit or other charity, you can’t afford to miss this workshop.

Nonprofit expert David Mills has traveled and consulted nationally with ministries and non-profits since 2003. His book, Understanding Community Needs, and Grant Teams that Win have helped thousands of non-profits to become more effective. Training provided by David has been endorsed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and other agencies around the country in the areas of funding and program service delivery.

  • Romans 10:14

    But how can people call for help if they don’t know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven’t heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it?

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