{"id":10716,"date":"2010-11-23T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10716"},"modified":"2010-11-23T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:19:03","slug":"anglican-church-of-canada-to-spend-360000-on-fund-raising-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-to-spend-360000-on-fund-raising-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church of Canada to spend $360,000 on fund raising campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/nc\/news-update-items\/article\/cogs-backs-nationwide-fundraising-initiative-9449.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. That the Philanthropy department be authorized to initiate and facilitate a nation-wide diocesan-centred fundraising initiative to benefit parishes, dioceses and General Synod.<\/p>\n<p>2. That dioceses not involved in a similar campaign be encouraged to engage in this initiative, with the understanding that the \u201ccase for support\u201d will include aspects of the case for [support of] General Synod.<\/p>\n<p>3. That a feasibility study for this initiative be conducted in up to 10 dioceses. The results will be shared with the participating dioceses and the CoGS.<\/p>\n<p>4. That the Council of General Synod approve $200,000 to invest in the nationwide fundraising initiative being undertaken by the Philanthropy department.<\/p>\n<p>With CoGS approval of the additional $200,000 for the initiative, its budget for the year is $360,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the article goes on to observe: <em>&#8220;there are pools of generosity in the life of our church that have not yet been fully tapped.\u201d<\/em> I expect the average Anglican parishioner will be excited to be thought of as a pool of generosity ripe for tapping.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In between dinner-time phone calls peddling windows and duct cleaning, brace yourself for a new one from the Anglican Church of Canada trying to raise money to pay for its litigation lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: 1. That the Philanthropy department be authorized to initiate and facilitate a nation-wide diocesan-centred fundraising initiative to benefit parishes, dioceses and General Synod. 2. That dioceses not involved in a similar campaign be encouraged to engage in this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-to-spend-360000-on-fund-raising-campaign\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,1225],"class_list":["post-10716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-philanthropy-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}