Faith-Based Fundraising: Strategies Specific to Faith Communities

Elevate your fundraising strategies! Fundraising is an essential part of any faith community's practices, contributing to operations and mission-focused work. This panel will address tailoring your fundraising initiatives to your faith-based organization, ensuring that your fundraising efforts best support your community’s mission. Join our industry experts in this discussion and learn ways to refine your fundraising practices.

Meet the Panelists

Karen Houghton, Infinite Giving

Karen Houghton is the CEO and Founder of Infinite Giving, an automated investment platform bringing a better investing experience to nonprofits. She advocates for organizational sustainability through better financial management. By hedging against inflation, lowering endowment fees, and growing their asset giving, nonprofits can do more good work and help us all have stronger, healthier communities.

Diane Remin, Major Donors

Named a top-25 fundraising consultant by Philanthropy Media in 2016, Diane G. Remin, MBA, is the founder and president of MajorDonors.com. An acclaimed consultant and trainer, she founded MajorDonors.com twelve years ago to help small-to-mid-sized organizations with limited resources boost their revenues, with an eye toward major gifts. Diane has been a nonprofit board member for the past 20 years. She most recently completed her two terms on the board of The Food Project, based in Lincoln, MA. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Planned Giving Group of New England.

 “Giving is good for your health,” - Diane Remin

Kenny Jahng, Church Tech Today

Kenny is the editor-in-chief at ChurchTechToday.com. He also leads a digital agency, Big Click Syndicate, helping mission-driven organizations create content with the purpose of nurturing raving fans for their mission. BCS has worked with American Bible Society, Biblica, California Baptist University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, the United Methodist Church denomination and others. Kenny earned his Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary; MBA from Columbia Business School; and B.A. from Duke University.

What will be discussed?

• How to best ask for donor support in faith-based communities?
• What platforms encourage donor support?
• How have the past 2 years impacted the faith-based community?

Who should attend?

While we firmly believe that anyone in the nonprofit sector could benefit from learning and thinking about the best strategies in faith-based network building, individuals from faith-based nonprofit organizations or faith communities will find this panel the most pertinent.

Interested in being a panelist? Let us know via this survey.