Reflect with us on the second Sunday of Lent: the Call to Transformation.

We have developed a series of reflections for each week of Lent 2014. Check out the first one:

What is the current condition of your fundraising efforts? What are its strengths and challenges? What can you do to make them more productive?

Congratulations to Maureen Gallagher, Senior Consultant with The Reid Group, for being named the recipient of the 2014 Yves Congar Award from the Conference on Pastoral Planning and Development!

Hopefully, 2013 was a pretty good year for you–your fund development efforts paid off after a lot of hard work. Hooray!

We’re at the beginning of a bright, shiny New Year. Hooray!

And at the beginning of each bright, shiny New Year, we have a bright shiny new budget hungry for funding all over again. Bummer.

Many of us equate “planning” with “booooooring!” But it doesn’t have to be that way. Done right, planning can set your organization up for a dynamite 2014.

Change is in abundance! Pick up any newspaper or magazine today and there is a good chance that you will find a news article about change. Managing change well will not alleviate loss, but will lessen some of the pain of loss.

The next in The Reid Group teleseminar series will focus on Change, Loss and Growth. Hosted by Senior Consultants Maureen Gallagher and Tom Reid, teleseminar participants will discuss the necessary skills required to move with change, carry loss and find the path for growth.

You are invited to attend our call on October 23, 2013 at 4 pm ET. The call will be co-hosted by Tom Reid and Carol Guenther, Senior Consultants with The Reid Group and will focus on the healthy organizational culture of the Sustainable Future Audit Tool.

One of the six areas included in the Sustainable Future Audit tool we have created is that of leadership retention and recruitment. Leadership is essential for sustainability; without it, your organization has no future.