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In the final episode of season one, Mary answers the top 10 questions we've received from you and other listeners of the Fully Funded Podcast.
A preview of the questions:
1. What is a good way to express to your donors and prayer team that you really do care about them, especially when they’re long distance and can’t be visited. Do you try to just keep in contact? Send gifts?
2. Our biggest challenge is finding new churches, families, and individuals to support us. How do we get in front of (at least virtually) new audiences? How can we enlarge our circle of influence without having to go back to the United States?
3. My mailing list is relatively small and dried up (little response). How do I get more new contacts? I need new leads!
4. How do I ask the people that I love and care about? What if they say ‘no’ and it creates an awkwardness in the relationship?
5. I have been leaning on the support of a few friends and family members. I have reached the point where I feel exhausted with asking family and friend to continue supporting my ministry. What do I do?
6. I have been a missionary for a long time now and I’ve run through my list. How do I approach people outside of the ministry for funds?
7. There is a perception that people in the country I serve do not need missionaries because it doesn’t appear to be a poor country. It is one of the most spiritually impoverished nations in the world. How do I share my story so they’ll want to support our mission?
8. Whenever I talk to my current supporters about bringing along others they know who might want to support our cause, they freak out and I never get any names. How do I build a team that wants to refer others to me?
9. Most people assume the work we do comes with a salary and we’ve had little transition in between our roles to have time to fundraise. How do we overcome these challenges?
10. One of my biggest challenges is feeling like you are alone in doing this. But, since I began listening to you guys things have totally changed. I received initial training, but haven’t received more info, wisdom and outside resources.
Free Resource: Support Raising Checklist (PDF)
Most missionaries struggle to know where to start their fundraising efforts. Use this full-color checklist to follow along with the podcast step-by-step as you plan your support raising campaign.
Get your Missionary Support Raising Checklist here
Fully Funded Workshop: March 4-6, 2018 in San Diego, CA
Join Mike and Mary for a 3-day workshop designed to help Christian missionaries boost their fundraising budget and step into financial freedom.
For more information: fullyfundedworkshop.com
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When it comes to missions fundraising, there is no more important document than your support letter.
Why?
The reason is simple. Your support letter is directly related to how much money is raised for your ministry. It is essentially the “sales letter” of the fundraising world.
A great support letter contains these 5 elements:
Promise: explaining what you’ll do with donations Picture: making your mission vividly clear Proof: giving your donors the “gift of going second” Unique Selling Proposition: explaining why you are uniquely qualified Offer: extending an invitation to your donor to giveIn this episode, you'll learn the Story-Based Support Letter format we teach inside Fully Funded Academy.
Fully Funded Academy is an easy-to-implement, monthly subscription that provides you with the word-for-word support letters, emails, and social media posts (with calendar) to use every single month, based on the timing of your fundraising calendar through the year.
Nearly 100 missionaries have joined Fully Funded Academy because they decided to get intentional about raising support, building relationships with their donors, and using best-practices to raise the support they need.
To join Fully Funded Academy, click here.
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In this episode we cover the final step of the Fundraising Freedom Framework:
1. Focus Your Vision
2. Run Your Research
3. Enlist Your Team
4. Enhance Your Brand
5. Deploy Your Team
6. Organize Your Ask
7. Make Your DifferenceThe reason you're serving in the field is because you're looking to make a real difference in the lives of others. There's no greater change agent than the gospel of Jesus Christ, and having your work fully funded allows you to focus on the task at hand.
Tune into this episode for practical tips and how to tie all this together and make an impact.
Free Resource: Support Raising Checklist (PDF)
Most missionaries struggle to know where to start their fundraising efforts. Use this full-color checklist to follow along with the podcast step-by-step as you plan your support raising campaign.
Get your Missionary Support Raising Checklist here
Fully Funded Workshop: March 4-6, 2018 in San Diego, CA
Join Mike and Mary for a 3-day workshop designed to help Christian missionaries boost their fundraising budget and step into financial freedom.
For more information: fullyfundedworkshop.com
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In this episode we cover the sixth step of the Fundraising Freedom Framework:
1. Focus Your Vision
2. Run Your Research
3. Enlist Your Team
4. Enhance Your Brand
5. Deploy Your Team
6. Organize Your Ask
7. Make Your DifferenceIt’s time to make your ask—a lot of people get a little antsy at this point of the relationship. You can avoid many common mistakes if you organize your ask by setting up a process for it. Keep in mind that your process will differ depending upon the segment of your audience with whom you are speaking.
Mike and Mary talk about organizing your ask and creating your process by understanding your audience and what kind of message you can give them.
Free Resource: Support Raising Checklist (PDF)
Most missionaries struggle to know where to start their fundraising efforts. Use this full-color checklist to follow along with the podcast step-by-step as you plan your support raising campaign.
Get your Missionary Support Raising Checklist here
Fully Funded Workshop: March 4-6, 2018 in San Diego, CA
Join Mike and Mary for a 3-day workshop designed to help Christian missionaries boost their fundraising budget and step into financial freedom.
For more information: fullyfundedworkshop.com
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In this episode we cover the fifth step of the Fundraising Freedom framework:
Focus Your Vision Run Your Research Enlist Your Team Enhance Your Brand Deploy Your Team Organize Your Ask Make Your DifferenceIt's time to use the team you enlisted to help you with your fundraising. By now your team should be filled with people who complement your skills and broaden your contacts. It's time to deploy them by utilizing their skills and connections.
There are four things your team will need from you:
Goals Tools Deadlines Clear CommunicationMike and Mary describe the best ways to deploy your team and how to empower them to help meet your fundraising goals.
Free Resource: Support Raising Checklist (PDF)
Most missionaries struggle to know where to start their fundraising efforts. Use this full-color checklist to follow along with the podcast step-by-step as you plan your support raising campaign.
Get your Missionary Support Raising Checklist here
Fully Funded Workshop: March 4-6, 2018 in San Diego, CA
Join Mike and Mary for a 3-day workshop designed to help Christian missionaries boost their fundraising budget and step into financial freedom.
For more information: fullyfundedworkshop.com
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In this episode we cover the fourth step of the Fundraising Freedom framework:
Focus Your Vision Run Your Research Enlist Your Team Enhance Your Brand Deploy Your Team Organize Your Ask Make Your DifferenceMany missionaries shy away from the idea of "branding" or "marketing" but the reality is that we already have a brand: it's what people think about us and what we communicate.
There are 3 identities to every brand:
Visual Identity Verbal Identity Value IdentityIn this episode, Mike and Mary take you into the nuts of bolts of building a brand that aligns all three of those identities.
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Free Resource: Support Raising Checklist (PDF)
Most missionaries struggle to know where to start their fundraising efforts. Use this full-color checklist to follow along with the podcast step-by-step as you plan your support raising campaign.
Get your Missionary Support Raising Checklist here
Fully Funded Workshop: March 4-6, 2018 in San Diego, CA
Join Mike and Mary for a 3-day workshop designed to help Christian missionaries boost their fundraising budget and step into financial freedom.
For more information: fullyfundedworkshop.com
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Individual committment to a group effort is really what makes raising support work. You need more than just yourself to fuel and finance your ministry.
In this practical episode, Mary Valloni and Mike Kim outline some best-practices in recruiting team members for your cause.
Free Resource: Support Raising Checklist (PDF)
Most missionaries struggle to know where to start their fundraising efforts. Use this full-color checklist to follow along with the podcast step-by-step as you plan your support raising campaign.
Get your Missionary Support Raising Checklist here
Fully Funded Workshop: March 4-6, 2018 in San Diego, CA
Join Mike and Mary for a 3-day workshop designed to help Christian missionaries boost their fundraising budget and step into financial freedom.
For more information: fullyfundedworkshop.com
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Astronaut Neil Armstrong once said, "Research is creating new knowledge."
That's exactly what we talk about in the third episode of the Fully Funded Podcast. Most missionaries feel alone in their fundraising efforts, and that isolation breeds an expectation that they are the only ones facing these challenges, and that the challenges are insurmountable.
In this episode, you'll learn how looking at other fundraising campaigns (and even specific missionaries) can give you a model to follow and emulate.
You'll learn how to "run your research" in an engaging, fun way that actually yields fundraising results.
Free Resource: Support Raising Checklist (PDF)
Most missionaries struggle to know where to start their fundraising efforts. Use this full-color checklist to follow along with the podcast step-by-step as you plan your support raising campaign.
Get your Missionary Support Raising Checklist here
Fully Funded Workshop: March 4-6, 2018 in San Diego, CA
Join Mike and Mary for a 3-day workshop designed to help Christian missionaries boost their fundraising budget and step into financial freedom.
For more information: fullyfundedworkshop.com
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In this episode, you'll learn the first step of the Fundraising Freedom framework, Focus Your Vision.
You'll discover why it's so important to have a clear and compelling vision (and how to write one), how to create an ideal budget, and how to map out a timeline for your fundraising efforts.
Follow Along with the Free Support Raising Checklist (PDF)
Most missionaries struggle to know where to start their fundraising efforts. Use this full-color checklist to follow along with the podcast step-by-step as you plan your support raising campaign.
Get your Missionary Support Raising Checklist here
Fully Funded Workshop: March 4-6, 2018 in San Diego, CA
Join Mike and Mary for a 3-day workshop designed to help Christian missionaries boost their fundraising budget and step into financial freedom.
For more information: fullyfundedworkshop.com
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Welcome to the very first episode of the new Fully Funded Podcast!
This show is dedicated to helping Christian missionaries grow their donor base and raise more support, using best-practices in professional fundraising and marketing.
Free Resource: Support Raising Checklist (PDF)
Most missionaries struggle to know where to start their fundraising efforts. Use this full-color checklist to follow along with the podcast step-by-step as you plan your support raising campaign.
Get your Missionary Support Raising Checklist here
Meet Your Hosts, Mike Kim and Mary Valloni:
Mike Kim: "As a marketing consultant I've advised numerous organizations including Catalyst, People of the Second Chance, MOPS, Donald Miller's StoryBrand, and Global Mission Awareness. I've been featured in business publications like Entrepreneur, Inc, and Forbes -- and my days are spent helping organizations clarify their message.
More than that, I love missions. Before I launched my consulting practice, I was a youth pastor and worship leader -- and also served on the mission field in countries like Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, and Spain.
I understand the unique challenges of balancing missions, ministry, and money -- and I'm excited to help you grow your donor base and raise more money."
Mary Valloni: "I love helping great causes raise the money they need!
I'm a former development director for the American Cancer Society, the ALS Association, and Special Olympics. My book Fundraising Freedom contains the strategies I've used to help these organizations.
I love to fundraise, but more importantly I love people. After raising millions of dollars for such causes, I realized too many missionaries don't have access to the training and resources they need to stay and flourish on the field.
It wasn't until my dad passed away in 2013 that I knew I needed to pursue my dream to start my own consultancy. My mission today is to educate, encourage and empower nonprofit and ministry leaders to raise the funds they need to fulfill their mission."
Fully Funded Workshop: March 4-6, 2018 in San Diego, CA
Join Mike and Mary for a 3-day workshop designed to help Christian missionaries boost their fundraising budget and step into financial freedom.
For more information: fullyfundedworkshop.com
