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Sent to monthly meeting finance contacts and subscribers.
Dear Friend,
Monthly meetings large and small rely on financial support from members and attenders in order to meet their budgets and carry on the work of the meeting. Different meetings ask for financial support in different ways – some send letters and emails, some make announcements at meeting for business, some have stewardship committees, some depend on the treasurer to take care of it all. In this Threadletter, two meetings of different sizes and situations report on their experiences. Please share this with the members of your finance committee and send in your meeting’s experience or questions! With gratitude,
Jennie Sheeks
Director of Development
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Message from the Field
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Fundraising Initiatives at two Monthly Meetings
The Experience of a Larger Meeting
Our fundraising goal at Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting last year was $87,000. As a large meeting with multiple obligations, it is essential that we raise these funds. However with 3 months to go, we still had a lot of work to do with $33,000 to raise. Nonetheless by the end of our fiscal year, we had raised $95,000, exceeding our goal by $8,000! This was one of the most successful years of fundraising we have had in a long time. How did we do it?
 The Experience of a Smaller Meeting
Pennsdale Meeting has been blessed by new members and attenders who have brought new ideas, new skills, and new energy. The timing couldn’t be better: our treasurer of many years requested to retire and our two-century-old meetinghouse has been in need of major attention. We have formed a finance committee – instead of an individual treasurer – to share the corporate responsibility.
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Online, Credit Card, and Recurring Gifts to Monthly Meetings
 Our Yearly Meeting’s Online Giving Service is an easy way for Friends to give to their monthly meeting or quarterly meeting. Through the PYM donations web page, Friends can give by credit card or through an electronic debit from a checking account. Gifts can be set up to recur automatically every other week, monthly, quarterly, twice yearly, or yearly. There is no fee to the meeting for this service. Any meeting that would like to be included on the PYM donations webpage should contact Jennie Sheeks.
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Events & News
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Check it Out!
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Thank you Friend!
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The Finance Threadletter is published twice a year to help strengthen our faith community through communication, connections and relationships.Please forward it to friends and families in your meeting so that information about the Yearly Meeting programs can reach them directly. Just click the Forward to a Friend button in the column at the bottom right of
this message.
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Online Giving Service
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This is a secure way to give online and is also an easy way to set up an automated recurring gift to a monthly or quarterly meeting.
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