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The Deficit-Buster! GraceWorks comes to
you and trains your entire team on the three solution essentials that
will make or break your Christian school.
Solution
#1:
More Tuition Revenue -- All the practical
details you need to dramatically increase your word of mouth
referral.
The average
Christian school receives 80% of its new parents from word of
mouth referral. For the best Christian schools in America,
that number is typically nearer 100%.
Learn why!
Solution
#2: Realistic Finance -- The best cost accounting your school has ever
had. We crunch all your numbers in advance, and explain
what's really going on. (This solution alone is worth the
price of the seminar!)
If your school is
presently experiencing a deficit, you will know exactly why -- in lay
terms everyone will understand. More importantly, we tell you
exactly what to do to fix it.
Solution
#3:
More Fundraising Revenue -- The critical
difference between fundraising and fundraisers
... including how to maximize your results for both by thinking through
seasonality and timing. Two sessions -- a full two hours -- on
how to receive major gifts .. real life and
practical. One session on a solid annual fund
strategy -- always contextualized to your unique situation.
Integrate Your
Marketing and Fundraising Effort for Maximum Result
Best of all,
GraceWorks will inculcate into your leadership team a ministry
philosophy
of tuition and financial aid which improves both your marketing and
fundraising effectiveness -- while allowing you to raise your tuition and
serve more lower income families!
(And if you think
that's strange, we explain how, in the economics of most Christian
schools, lower income people end up subsidizing higher income parents!)
We explain why you
should avoid commoditization like the plague -- and what you need to do. (Here's a hint:
Don't post your tuition rate on the public
portion of your website.)
Have you ever wondered how to get past
the money question when a new parent calls? There
is indeed a better way. We tell you, show you, and role play
it with you. We even show you how to use all of it to strengthen the case for
support for your annual fund.
The bottom
line: If you know in your heart you have to raise
tuition but are not sure why or how, this seminar is for you. We not
only tell you how, but explain why -- as a
Christian ministry philosophy -- it is probably the right
move.
More Than a
Seminar ... A Financial Turning Point
The entire
seminar is structured for change:
One
School at a Time -- Each seminar is done for the entire team
of your school only ... you can
be completely open and honest about the difficulties you face.
Invite
Everyone
-- Staff, volunteers, boards, secretaries -- everyone is welcome ... up
to 20 people!
Each
Participant Receives All Seminar Materials -- including a 100+ page workbook and an
implementation guide.
Volunteer-Friendly Friday Evening / All-Day Saturday Format
-- with modular design, to accommodate busy people and schedules.
Volunteer
Mobilization -- two
full hours. The most important part of the
seminar -- here's where we get down to the business of who
is going to do what by
when.
Two
Days of Senior-Level Consultant Time
-- typically over 16 hours. Yours from the minute
we walk off the plane on Friday morning until we fly out Saturday evening.
Fully
Guaranteed -- If, at the end of the seminar, you are not
completely satisfied, GraceWorks will cheerfully refund your entire
seminar fee. (Travel expenses excluded.)
Custom-Tailored
to Your School's Needs
A
Complete Financial Assessment
-- jointly completed
with your lead consultant before the seminar
starts. We present the
results -- with all decision makers present -- in a way that motivates
necessary CHANGE.
Parent
Satisfaction and Referral Survey (PSRS) -- a 4-minute online
parent survey which tests your word of
mouth effectiveness. Based
on decades of customer satisfaction and loyalty research, the PSRS concretely assesses
parental satisfaction and willingness to refer to your
school. The PSRS is also completed before the seminar, with
results presented both before and during the seminar. (And yes, it can be done during the summer!)
Specific to You -- Based
upon your financial assessment and PSRS results, GraceWorks
targets the content for each individual seminar to give you the highest
leverage answers ... the best solutions to improve your financial situation most
dramatically.
A Final Bonus: Valuable
Materials for Each Christian School
Includes Marketing Guide and Team Upgrade
-- Marketing Christian
Schools: The Definitive Guide, Volume 1, (C) 2006
is included in the seminar -- all 620
pages. The Team Upgrade is also included, which gives you
copyright permission to copy the entire Guide for up to 15 members of
your marketing team, along with 350 recommended marketing
action steps in Microsoft Project
format.
Seminar
Workbook, Implementation Guide, SlideShow
Handouts -- 150+ pages of content specific to the seminar.
Succeeding at Major Gifts -- 65
pages detailing the major gift process from
identification to thanking. As with the Marketing
Guide, copyright permission to put this in the hands of any person at
your school who can use it.
Meet the Presenter
 As a new seminar, Healthy Finance will be
presented exclusively in 2007 by Dan Krause, President of
GraceWorks Ministries.
Krause is co-author of Marketing Christian
Schools: The Definitive Guide, Volume 1. Since
founding GraceWorks in 2000, GraceWorks has served over 700
Christian schools.
Krause's fundraising career started in
1988, and he has completed 15 capital campaigns, in addition
to serving as a full-time Director of Development for 10 years.
Dan has a Master's degree from Fuller
Seminary, School of World Missions, in Leadership, Church
Growth, and Cross-Cultural Studies. He is a 1983 graduate
of Concordia University, Seward, NE (Summa Cum Laude).
Additional insights from the entire
GraceWorks' team of six professionals are included in the
seminar. Collectively, GraceWorks' team members have
raised over $300 million combined.
Reserve a date now.
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GraceWorks Seminar Participants Said:
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