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Development Committees | Setting the Standard

by Zach Clark

Development Committees | Setting the Standard

In development, we get out what we’re willing to put in. How are you utilizing your board members and committees? There’s untapped potential – let’s tap into it in 3 ways today!

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Wartime Priorities

by Zach Clark

Wartime Priorities

You are the general of your ministry organization. It’s time to enter the war room and not reemerge until you draw up war plans. What does this mean? Two steps, endless possibilities!

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Noteworthy Meetings | Tools of the Trade

by Zach Clark

Noteworthy Meetings | Tools of the Trade

When you ask a question, there is power in the answer. Are you listening? Are you harnessing it? One notebook has the potential to guide you to do just that!

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Bored with your Board?

by Zach Clark

Bored with your Bored?

I often hear complaints from development and advancement directors and teams working with faith-based nonprofit organizations, schools, and missions.  “Our board doesn’t get involved.” “Our board doesn’t contribute.” You’re bored… with your board.  At times, this can be completely confounding. The Christian mindset is to build one another up, to defend the widows and the […]

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To Delegate is to Disciple | Leading Well Through Mentorships

by Zach Clark

To Delegate is to Disciple | Leading Well Through Mentorships

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.” As leaders, we carry the amazing responsibility of raising others up to stand on level ground, and even to push them above and beyond. In so many areas of our faith, we are encouraged to think […]

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Growing Pains

by Zach Clark

Growing Pains

May I be blunt? I don’t really have any interest in you learning for the sake of learning, though I’m the first to admit I have a teacher’s heart. I’m more interested in what you and your team are going to do with the skills, tactics, and tools we discuss. Keeping this in mind, let’s […]

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Discipline Can Be Deceiving

by Zach Clark

Discipline Can Be Deceiving

From the outside, as I hiked with several leaders after a long and productive day, it likely looked like I was a diligent, structured, disciplined person. I say this because several people commented on just that. However, that was merely a reaction to evidence available at the moment. I love discipline. I admire it. I […]

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Evolving as a Leader | Doing More With Teams

by Zach Clark

As leaders, it’s imperative we deal with both success and stress in healthy ways so as to not discourage future generations of leaders. One of the most common questions clients and colleagues ask is, “How can I do more with a team?” I’d like to suggest today it’s not what the team can do, but […]

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Building the 200

by Zach Clark

As we grow increasingly intentional in 2020, I want everyone to call to mind those on your list of people you’re shepherding. Ideally, you call to mind your master list of the 100 to 200 people you’ve focused on relationally this year. As development directors, the most we can interact with yet still create and […]

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Going Virtual in a Viral World

by Zach Clark

We are living day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute, or so it seems, when it comes to event planning in our current pandemic circumstances.  It’s springtime and for many leaders this season is synonymous with the big event. The large gathering. The fundraising mothership.  But, we can’t. So what can we do?  […]

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Redefining Success | Navigating COVID-19

by Zach Clark

Many of you have reached out with the same basic, but ever so complicated, question: What do we do now? Although many things remain to be sorted out, we have three important steps for you and your organizations to take today for a stronger tomorrow.  Update Timelines At this point we have no way of […]

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The Process of Bearing Fruit

by Zach Clark

These are challenging times.  It’s important, and I believe helpful, to call to mind those who came before us and have stood where we stand.  While we’ve no proof that any of the disciples were ordered to shelter in place due to a virus, we DO have proof that they faced many trials of all […]

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4 Simple Questions for Complicated Seasons

by Zach Clark

Too much to do, too little time. Sound familiar?  For most leaders, end of year can be a stressful time. With mere days left in the giving year and calendars filling up with holiday celebrations and obligations, December can be a tricky month to navigate.  It doesn’t have to be. At all times, but especially […]

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Strength Training | 3 Steps to Stronger Ideas

by Zach Clark

Strength stands on the shoulders of those who came before us. Years ago, I learned a formula that has changed my life. As a driven individual I can be guilty at times of being so focused I settle for nothing short of perfection. There was a time when I would rather have taken no action […]

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Development is Threefold…Not Billfold

by Zach Clark

What We Can Learn From Jesus + Einstein “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”  This quote from Albert Einstein resonated with me earlier this week, and has encouraged the advice I share with you today.  Whether through parables or five alphanumeric symbols, e = mc2, great men know it […]

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3 Ways to Show Vision Through Hospitality

by Zach Clark

Calling all Marthas! Jesus gave credit where credit was due for Mary’s focus on the importance of time spent with our Savior.  I’ve considered, however, from time to time, the number of people who give the Marthas of the world a bad name. There’s something to be said for the gift of hospitality.  We all […]

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Super Strength | Surrendering to THE Source

by Zach Clark

  I’m in a season of self-reflection.  Recently, I’ve asked myself simple questions and yet am left with complex answers. I’ve discovered others’ decisions, opportunities, problems, or challenges are taking up a significant chunk of my thought life. Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that […]

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The Giving Board

by Zach Clark

Create. Motivate. Activate.  The relationship between a leader and those who serve alongside the leader can be quite impactful, but sometimes difficult to navigate, especially when it comes to money.  Let’s face it – confronting those who choose to serve, who give of their time …to also give of their finances… is not always easy.  […]

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Leading Through Storytelling

by Zach Clark

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about Him, so that He got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And He told them many things in parables… Matthew 13:1-3 In countless ways, Jesus was and continues […]

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Transforming Completed into Well Done

by Zach Clark

Have you ever trained for a race? Those who have know in the months and weeks leading up to the big day, whether by a step or by a mile, forward movement is progress. However, come race day there is a visible, marked difference between those who merely finish the race and those who run […]

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