Do the Word

What were the transformational steps God took you through as you moved from knowing and doing nothing in relation to the cause you now champion…to championing the cause the way you do today? Once you gather that information about yourself and other cause owners, you have exactly what you need to create a new database record layout or modify and existing one.

Check out more in Part III of our video series on Transformational Giving: Databases.

If we’re going to build a Transformational Giving database, we’d better have a really clear, specific idea of what Transformational Data is. Here’s a, um, really clear, specific definition.

When you begin to make the transition from traditional transactional fundraising to Transformational Giving, you’ll very quickly run into bad news: All of today’s fundraising databases are transactional.

But here’s the good news: All of today’s fundraising databases can easily be adapted for Transformational Giving. The key is (1) changing the data you track to match the data God tracks, and (2) changing the purpose for your database to match God’s purposes

Here’s Part I in an eight-part series I’ll be posting over the next few weeks on Databases in Transformational Giving.