Webinar Library

Many ministry leaders approach champion meetings focused on presenting their case; however, major givers consistently share that the meetings they remember—and respond to—aren't the ones with the best presentations. They're meetings where the leader asked questions that honor the giver’s story, convictions, and partnership in the cause, not just the amount of their giving. Join Mi to hear directly from generous givers about the conversations that made them feel genuinely known, deeply valued, and eager to partner more significantly. You'll also learn which questions unintentionally signal that you're more interested in their wallet than their heart.

Mission Increase leadership provides an update on Mission Increase's robust and fruitful ministry in 2025. This hour-long webinar looks back on the Lord's provision, celebrates our collective Kingdom Impact, and casts a vision for Mission Increase's near- and long-term goals, with clear invitations for how you might be part of what God is doing in and through Mission Increase.

Join Mi for a practical, mission-minded webinar, “Essential Responsibilities of Ministry Boards,” featuring governance expert Pat McMillan. You’ll get a clear breakdown of what effective boards do—and don’t do—including oversight, accountability, strategic direction, and healthy partnership with executive leadership. Walk away with actionable insights and tools to strengthen board performance, reduce confusion, and help your ministry thrive.

Mission Increase leaders share practical steps for how to build email newsletters that will inspire recipients to greater involvement in the work God is doing in and through your nonprofit organization.

Mission Increase leadership celebrates all that God is doing through stories of God's provision, champion growth, and Kingdom impact made possible through our partnership with faithful leaders like you. Learn more about the continued and new Mi resources available to you.

Dave Raley, Founder of Imago Consulting, shares how nonprofits can leverage the tools of AI for unprecedented opportunities to create impact, multiply resources, and raise funds, and grow champions.

This interactive webinar to features experts from the faith and fundraising sectors discuss how these two seemingly separate disciplines are interwoven in a way that transforms both.

The Word of God is powerful. Developing a Biblically-based reason for your nonprofit to exist will help your organization in many ways. Watch this webinar to find out how to develop and use your theology of your cause.

This interactive webinar features a panel of Mission Increase Area Directors as they put on their coaching hats to answer live questions about everything related to fundraising, planning and ministry leadership.

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out by the demands of life and leadership? It doesn't have to be this way. This webinar will help you understand what soul care is, why it's essential, and how to integrate it into your life. You'll also experience a brief, guided reflection to deepen your connection with God's loving presence.

How can your ministry synergistically partner with churches to equip God’s people to make disciples? In this webinar, Scott Harris and Caleb Crider will share ways that nonprofits and church partners can work together to impact the Kingdom!

So many faith-based nonprofits are in the “compassion zone;” feeding, educating, healing, serving. We need you! But what does ‘disciple-making’ look like in your context, and should compassion and proclamation go together? If so, how?

Video can help your messaging stand out, and this webinar unpacks how.  It also covers how to make many pieces of content from one longer video, how to scale video on a budget and turn video into results.

Mission Increase believes in the power of church engagement. Too often though, ministries either don’t know how to build relationships with churches, or only see them as check writers. But there is a better way. This webinar will help you learn what makes for good church and ministry partnerships, explore how you can partner with churches in your acquisition strategy, and reconsider your current church engagement strategy.

The responsibility of fundraising should never land on a single person’s shoulders. Not only is it too large of a responsibility for one person to bear, but it is also risky if something happens with this person. No matter the size, or age, of a ministry, it is possible to build a mighty team that shares the responsibility of fundraising, increases relational capacity, and expands the organizational efforts to develop champions.

Boards that have a regular rhythm for cultivating and recruiting board members are more likely to invite vision, engage everyone’s gifts and accelerate the growth of the organization. That kind of board infuses the cause with leadership and stimulates growth in the individual members of a board.

This webinar offers insight on creating a strong, integrated social media strategy.  Our panelists also discuss how to test and measure results, as well as tools that can help you integrate social media into existing communication streams.

Most people emphasize preparing the event itself and may overlook preparing the people who will attend the event and crafting a follow-up plan. Leverage your event by strategically designing the whole experience, starting with the invitation, and building an ongoing communication stream that includes next steps for involvement. 

A discussion with guests from national, local and family foundations. Many leaders tell us they would love to get a grant, but don’t know who to ask or how to ask which leads them to doing it poorly, or not at all.Both options not only limit resources for your organization but remove the opportunity for shared impact with foundations as givers. But there is a better way!

Foundations expect, and individual givers value, collaboration. You appreciate how collaboration can leverage the work of everyone, but many times don’t know with whom or how to collaborate. And deep down, we all fight the urge to see each other as competition rather than co-laborers.

Telling your organization’s story using digital marketing can often feel overwhelming and confusing to ministries. This webinar provides ten practical do's and don't's for any fundraising campaign.

Continually adding new champions to your cause is a critical piece to sustainable growth for any organization. At Mission Increase, we believe a sound acquisition strategy will include events of varying sizes and focuses. Micro-Events are crucial to your overall acquisition strategy because they have the capability to happen with regularity.

Estate gifts can sometimes feel unapproachable. However, avoiding legacy gifts not only limits resources for your organization, but it removes an opportunity for givers to make possibly their most worshipful gift.     

What do you do when you’re forced to cancel your physical fundraising event on a short notice? Leaders from Miracle Hill Ministry in South Carolina share with us their experience in pivoting their planned physical event to a completely virtual event with tremendous success. Learn from their experience things you’d need to consider if you are also planning a virtual event.

The life of your ministry depends on your ability to engage, attract, and retain millennials. Millennials are the benefactors of the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of humanity, highly engaged in lifting the local and global community, and view mentorship as “invaluable” to their success; yet Dr. Wessinger's post-crisis research reveals that 84% of church-attending millennials will not return to church in a post-crisis environment. Dr. Wessinger will utilize the over 35,000 voices in his research to equip attendees with three accurate realties and clearly defined steps for sustainable growth with millennials.

Recurring giving has been a part of the nonprofit fundraising mix for decades. But historically, very few nonprofits took advantage of this essential income stream. Today, thanks to changes in consumer and donor behavior, every single nonprofit can tap into the subscription culture to build a thriving and predictable recurring stream of donations.

In this webinar, Luke Womack from The Go Fund shares his event strategy from just getting started with large-scale events, to having events in multiple cities. This webinar discusses how events are a catalyzing mechanism for growth, tips to grow your dinners, the follow-up strategy and mistakes to avoid. 

Today, we still find ourselves living in a world of“mine” and “not enough”. Birthed out of a lack of trust, a scarcity mentality leads to many other challenges. In what ways could embracing a God of abundance change the way we live? In this webinar, Steve Atkinson, Executive Director, and Mike McDonald, Director of Strategic Partnerships, from The Bible Project will share what they’ve learned about generosity as they’ve studied the scriptures, explore the mindset of abundance and scarcity, and talk about their approach to crowd sourced fundraising.

Would you like to experience the power of God in your ministry? The best source of effectiveness in your ministry comes through leadership that cultivates spiritual vitality. This webinar will focus on the creation of a board role called Spiritual Director and the implications of having a board member providing spiritual encouragement in your ministry.

Acquisition is the lifeblood of any fundraising program-online or otherwise. Whether your primary means of acquisition is events, face-to-face connection, or online advertising-you have to get someone to care about your cause before they will invest. So how do you get your ideal supporter to experience the value of your organization online? One critical component is content marketing. In this webinar, offered in collaboration with our friends at NextAfter, you’ll learn what kinds of online content marketing can be used to capture the attention of your ideal potential champion and move them towards deeper engagement with your cause.

“When God raises up people to proclaim the gospel, he also raises up patrons to support them. They have different gifts and different roles but are partners in the same mission.” –Gospel Patrons John Rinehart, author of the books Gospel Patrons and Giving Together, researched giving and discovered that history is full of champions who God used to advance the gospel. In this webinar, John will share stories of both historic and modern-day Gospel Patrons and provide action steps for developing Gospel Patrons in your midst.

What distinguishes generous, openhanded leaders is how they answer these two worldview questions, “Do we believe in a world of scarcity or abundance?” and “Is our focus on our clan or the Kingdom?” These questions change the way we look at the world and directly impact the way we serve.” –Rooting for Rivals. In this webinar, Peter Greer, president and CEO of HOPE International and co-author of Rooting for Rivals, will share his heart for collaborative ministry and pursuing a Kingdom mindset in order to make a greater impact on the world. 

When ministries fully deploy P-E-O, MI's comprehensive champion development strategy, we see giving increase and we see leaders and givers experiencing joy and working together to multiply their impact on the cause. 

The clock is ticking, but it’s not too late! Charity Navigator’s year-end giving survey found that, on average, the charities they surveyed receive 41% of their annual contributions in the last few weeks of the year. What emphasis does your team put on year-end giving? Do you have a strategy to invite year-end giving or does December tend to be a time of scrambling and apprehension? In this webinar, Mission Increase Area Directors will dialogue about proven year-end strategies and share stories from the front lines.

Transitions may always be disruptive, but nonprofits that are serious about planning for smooth and thoughtful transitions of leadership can usher in a new season of growth and change for their organizations. In this webinar, William Vanderbloemen, founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group and co-author of Next: Pastoral Succession That Works, will share his expertise and stories of developing succession plans for churches and Christian nonprofits. 

How do you build and sustain a vibrant monthly giving program? This MI webinar will walk you through setting up or reinvigorating your own monthly giving program. You’ll leave ready to build a framework for your monthly giving program, create a campaign to engage new monthly givers, identify and invite the best prospects for monthly giving and develop a process for ongoing care and communication.

A great story can connect new people to your cause and keep you champions engaged, but are you telling the right stories? Every successful fundraising program is built on stories, stories of the change being made through the organization’s work. In this webinar, we will explore the art and science of telling great stories and how you can leverage your story to engage champions. You’ll learn tips for crafting your nonprofit’s core story, the elements of a great story, best practices for capturing and tracking stories from the field that will inspire your givers.

Learn how to leverage matching gifts to increase giving of current champions and acquiring new champions. Learn how, when and from who to ask for matching gifts. Leaders will understand the fiduciary responsibilities related to tracking and managing matching gifts.

How do you find the right board members for your ministry? What’s the right criteria? How do you equip them to successfully govern? In this MIF webinar, board governance experts John Pearson and Mike Pate guide you in the critical process of spiritually discerning the criteria for effective board members; where to find them; and how to thoughtfully recruit and inspire women and men for the sacred task of stewarding your ministry.

Submit grant requests that are well-researched, well-written and have very good chances of being approved. And it doesn't require magic! 

Build confidence and loyalty in all your champions, understand what many givers are looking for, and know the next step to personally connect with your givers.

Mission drift happens, and it can happen in your ministry. The nonprofit landscape is littered with organizations like ChildFund and Harvard University that no longer embrace the Christian principles on which they were founded. But, there are things you can do to prevent drift. What are the characteristics and strategies of organizations that remain mission true?