6. Who will know who gives what?
Will the overall giving records be available to the lead pastor, staff members or other campaign leaders? There are good reasons on both sides of the argument. You need to decide what you’re comfortable with.
7. What kinds of fundraising tools are we not comfortable using?
As soon as you begin to raise money, you’ll get people asking if they can utilize bake sales, car washes, dinners or other common fundraising ideas to raise money. You need to determine what you are and are not comfortable with.
8. How will the campaign end?
You need to determine what will mark the end of the campaign. Will it be a specific date? A certain dollar amount? What if you hit the date and the goal has not been reached? All of these kinds of questions need to be resolved.
9. How involved will people/members be in the decision making process?
For churches with higher congregational involvement written into their by-laws, this question may be answered more easily. For others, the leaders need to determine how much input church members will have and on what. Will you use focus groups to shape the design of the building? Will you vote on certain things? Will you simply make decisions with a small group and inform people?
10. How involved will the lead pastor be in raising money?
The lead pastor is crucial to the overall campaign. But it needs to be determined which people he should meet with, which meetings he must attend, what information he has to distribute, and what things can effectively be led by others. A key question to ask is, “Does this information/vision/request need to be heard, or does it need to be heard from the lead pastor?”
