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Christmas is a time of gift-giving. But all too often, the gifts we give and receive are trivial books, neckties, jewelry, video games. How many of these do we need anyway? This Christmas, help your church congregation, or even just your family, focus on the gift that really matters, through the Methodist Mission in Cambodias Alternative Giving Campaign. Give a gift of love this season, and in turn, find yourself refreshed. This handbook should have all the information you need to help you run a successful Alternative Giving Campaign, but if you have additional questions or concerns, feel free to email us anytime at altgiving.mmc@gmail.com.
Table of Contents
Logistics: When and How? ....................................... 2 The Catalog: How to Use it ....................................... 4 Participation: A Mission Awareness Campaign ........ 6 Publicity: Grab Your Congregations Attention ......... 8 Handling Donations ................................................ 11 Stay Updated .......................................................... 13 Note to Individual Donors ....................................... 13 Supplemental Materials .......................................... 14
LEARN FROM A VETERAN CHURCH TRY A GIVING BAZAAR Aldersgate UMC in Virginia has hosted an annual Alternative Giving campaign to benefit the Methodist Mission in Cambodia for many years now. Their program has reported great success with their Giving Bazaar approach to the campaign, wherein church members visit a store set-up, with tables showcasing different catalog items available for purchase. At each table, members can learn more about the gifts and why they are needed. They can also pick up a Christmas card insert there, which will inform someone on their Christmas shopping list that a gift has been purchased in their honor and give more details about the specific gift (a cow, a university scholarship, etc.) (These printable inserts are available at the our Scribd site, www.Scribd.com/altgiving.) These card inserts are then taken to a check-out counter and paid for. Juanita Csontos, Alternative Giving Coordinator at Aldersgate says the best fund raiser we have is our Alternative Giving Christmas bazaar in December.
You can experience the same success by mimicking their simple Giving Bazaar formula:
1. Set up tables with information & displays on specific gift items. Make sure to have print-outs of the Christmas card inserts corresponding to those gifts, as well as order forms available at these tables. 2. Set up a centralized check-out table with the ability to take cash or checks 3. Have church members peruse the display tables, picking up the card inserts for the gifts they want to purchase, as well as adding those gifts to their order form 4. When finished shopping, members take their order forms and card inserts to the check-out table, where they write one check (or pay in cash) for all their gifts. If the church is providing the Christmas cards for the inserts to go into (check out one churchs success with this approach here), the cards are also distributed at this check-out table.
HOW TO PRINT YOUR CATALOGS We understand many churches will not have the resources to print a batch of glossy, full-color catalogs, so weve made the catalog available in a wide range of formats from professional print quality to catalogs designed for printing in black-and-white on a home or office ink-jet. All of the below versions of the catalog are available for download at Scribd. Find the catalog that works best for your printing capabilities and resources. (For ease of locating, catalogs names given here correspond to their titles on Scribd. And if youre viewing this handbook on a computer, try clicking the catalog title to take you directly to its specific Scribd page.) HOME OR OFFICE QUALITY OPTIONS (DOUBLE-SIDED)
Catalog For Print (US Tabloid paper size, Color, WITH Margins) Meant to be printed double-sided on standard U.S. Tabloid size paper (11x17), in color, with standard margins. Printing this will use a lot of color ink, but will produce fine on a standard home or office printer. Catalog For Print (US Tabloid paper size, Black & White, WITH margins) Same as the above catalog (double-sided tabloid, with margins) but in Black and White. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST OPTIONS IF YOU PLAN TO PHOTOCOPY THE CATALOG. Catalog For Print (A3 paper size, Color, WITH margins) Meant to be printed double-sided on standard metric-size A3 paper (297 x 420mm, or 11.69 x 16.54), in color, with standard margins. Printing this will use a lot of color ink, but will produce fine on a standard home or office printer, so long as you have the print settings set to A3 paper. Catalog For Print (A3 paper size, Black and White, WITH margins) Same as the above catalog (double-sided A3, full bleed, with margins) but in Black and White. Should be less expensive to print than the color version but will still look very professional. We recommend printing on glossy paper.
PROFESSIONAL QUALITY OPTIONS: If you are interested in having your catalog printed professionally, these are the options you have to choose from. Also, if you are unsure how to solicit an estimate from a local print shop, check out our sample letter here in this handbook. You can also email altgiving.mmc@gmail.com to inquire about saving money by having your local churchs print run (of at least 50 catalogs) made in conjunction with a second print run by the Methodist Mission in Cambodia for an estimated cost of 60 cents per catalog, plus shipping (about $35 per 50 catalogs). Please email inquiries by Nov. 15.
Catalog For Print (US Tabloid paper size, Color, no margins) Meant to be printed double-sided on standard U.S. Tabloid size paper (11x17), in color, with full bleed, meaning the images will print all the way to the edges, like in a magazine, with no margins. We recommend printing on glossy paper. Catalog For Print (US Tabloid paper size, Black and White, no margins) Same as the above catalog (double-sided tabloid, full bleed/no margins) but in Black and White. Should be less expensive to print than the color version but will still look very professions. We recommend printing on glossy paper. Catalog For Print (A3 paper size, color, no margins) THIS IS THE BEST VERSION AVAILABLE. Meant to be printed doublesided on standard metric-size A3 paper (297 x 420mm, or 11.69 x 16.54), in color, with full bleed, meaning the images will print all the way to the edges, like in a magazine, with no margins. We recommend printing on glossy paper. Catalog For Print (A3 paper size, Black and White, no margins) Same as the above catalog (double-sided A3, full bleed/no margins) but in Black and White. Should be less expensive to print than the color version but will still look very professional. We recommend printing on glossy paper.
system (detailed here in this handbook) easily allows for the inclusion of new projects. Just write up the details of the projects you want to include, assign them a three-letter, two-digit catalog number (LOC, for example would work great to demark it as a local project), and insert the write-up as a supplemental page into the Alternative Giving Catalog. Just make sure you take the time to separate these local orders from those associated with The Advance before you submit your orders by mail or online (as detailed here). LET US KNOW WHAT WAYS YOU FIND TO PROMOTE AWARENESS Have you found a particularly effective or creative way to promote participation or awareness within your church? Tell us, by emailing altgiving.mmc@gmail.com.
Handouts: Three handouts are available to download and print, each of them focusing on a specific people-group within your congregation, including (click on titles to download):
Childrens Sunday School Classes: Designed for elementary and middle school children, this handout promotes a catalog item allowing the purchase of uniforms for school children and is written using language younger children should understand. Womens Groups: This handout promotes projects that revolve around women, including womens livelihood projects, which promote small businesses, and conflict resolution training, which teaches couples non-violent methods for resolving their differences. Groups looking to make an entire class or session revolve around the idea of Alternative Giving to womens projects should check out our video on womens livelihood projects (Available on YouTube here. Plus, read the section below about our online videos to see how you can download this and other videos.) Youth Groups: This handout looks at youth scholarship projects available in the giving catalog, including support for our Methodist-run Faith Engine Ministry mechanics school, as well as university scholarships for promising young students. Groups that want to make Alternative Giving the focus of an entire meeting should check out our video on FEM (Available on YouTube here. Plus, read the section below about our online videos to see how you can download this and other videos.)
Bulletin inserts: All but one of these four bulletin inserts are two-pages and meant to be printed double-sided. Another option is to print only the cover side and customize the back with information specific to your churchs Alternative Giving campaign. Here are the options available (click on titles to download):
Generic (single-sided): Prints two per 8 /2 x 11 page and should fit snuggly inside your order of worship. Themed What does Jesus Want for Christmas, this insert displays all of the projects available for sponsorship in the Alternative Giving Catalog. 1 Generic (double-sided): Prints two per double-sided 8 /2 x 11 page and should fit snuggly inside your order of worship. Themed What does Jesus Want for Christmas, this insert displays all of the projects available for sponsorship in the Alternative Giving Catalog, with a photo teaser on the front side and informational text and photos on the back. 1 School Uniforms (double-sided): Prints two per double-sided 8 /2 x 11 page and should fit snuggly inside your order of worship. This insert focuses on the option to purchase school uniforms for Cambodian children through the Alternative Giving Catalog, with a photo teaser on the front and informational text and photos on the back. 1 Agriculture (double-sided): Prints two per double-sided 8 /2 x 11 page and should fit snuggly inside your order of worship. Much like its poster counterpart, this insert is themed, Buy a Cow for Christmas? and focuses on projects that benefit our Community Health and Agriculture Development program, including the purchase of cows or chickens and the sponsorship of rice banks or gardening projects.
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GRAPHIC RESOURCES LOGOS & POWERPOINT SLIDES These digital materials can help you expand the reach of your Alternative Giving campaign to the screen or even the World Wide Web. Logos: The logos used in print material throughout the campaign (including the Give a Gift of Love this Christmas and Alternative Giving text logos and the Advance logo) are also available for independent download on Scribd and can be used to post promotional content to your church website or to social media. Also feel free to use these logos to create your own, customized print content to promote your local Alternative Giving campaign. PowerPoint Slides: These PDFs are formatted in exactly the dimensions of a typical PowerPoint slide and can be easily dropped into a PowerPoint presentation and projected during your churchs pre-worship announcements or during a presentation or special offering related to your Alternative Giving campaign. All slides are capable of standing alone without explanation, and have different themes, including microfinance, youth scholarships, agriculture projects and school uniforms, plus a generic slide.
ONLINE VIDEOS & HOW TO DOWNLOAD THEM Several videos on the Methodist Mission in Cambodias YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/mmcambodia) relate directly to items available for purchase in the Alternative Giving Catalog, including (click on the title to view the video on YouTube):
Faith Engine Ministry: Highlights the efforts of the Methodist-run mechanic school in Phnom Penh, which helps rural youth learn a trade that will give them a leg-up in a job market where 15 percent of their peers will be unable to find employment. Alternative Giving Catalog items: FEM01 & FEM02. Run-time: 6:26 Community Health & Agricultural Development: Focuses on projects sponsored by CHAD, which relate to all catalog items with prefixes of CDA and CDH, many of which can be found on the Agriculture & Microfinance page of the catalog. Run-time: 13:49 Cambodia Methodist Women: Shows the successful outcomes of three Womens Livelihood Projects a basket-weaving business, a gardening project, and a water-plant harvesting business. Alternative Giving Catalog Items: WLP11 & WLP12. Run-time: 7:28 Childrens Ministries: Shows the need for and development of Sunday School resources for young Cambodian children. Alternative Giving Catalog Items: RES01 & RES02. Run-time: 7:36
If you need to download any of these videos to present during a church service or other gathering, one option available to you is to download the free software, Tooble, which bills itself as a DVR for the Internet. To download the application, visit www.tooble.tv and click download. You will then be prompted to select the version appropriate for your operating system. Once the download is complete, you can obtain any of the Methodist Mission in Cambodias videos by opening the application, clicking Enter a URL, and copying and pasting the address of the video you wish to download.
Handling Donations
The Short-form Order Form is intended to be distributed with the Alternative Giving Catalog. As it appears in this handbook, the order form will print two per 81/2 x 11 page, and we encourage you to print it double-sided, with the Online Giving Instructions (also included in this handbook) on the back, so members can donate online by credit card if they prefer. The short order form is designed to be simple, streamlined and understandable to your donors, and therefore, like the catalog itself, does not include the corresponding Advance Numbers for the catalog items, which are long and often very similar to one-another, possibly leading to confusion. This makes the process easier for donors who are simply turning in a short-form order form, but does add one more step for campaign coordinators and church administrators who are handling the donations for an entire church, or for individual donors who are participating in Alternative Giving independent of an organized campaign. To submit the orders, you must first determine which Advance number the catalog items of your choice correspond to. This can be accomplished easily enough using this key, which is also included on the Short-form Order Form:
As you see from this key, each three-letter catalog prefix corresponds to a single Advance Number. For example, CDA51 (Buy a Cow) and CDA21 (Fund a Small Business Start-up Loan) both have the same prefix (CDA), and both go to Advance #14916A, Community Health and Agricultural Development, as shown on this Number Key. You will need to know a catalog items Advance Number in order to donate online or to fill out the long-form church summary order sheet and donate by mail, both of which options are discussed in greater depth below. You should also note that, as the asterisk next to the RES prefix indicates, donations made to catalog items with this prefix, which corresponds to the
Cambodia Mission Initiative Advance Number, must be denoted as designated for Christian Education, which does not have an Advance Number of its own. These funds will go into the Country Directors general operating budget, and, when correctly demarked for Christian Education by you, will be set aside for the development of Childrens Resource Materials and Sunday School Teacher Training, as the catalog items indicate. SUBMIT DONATIONS VIA MAIL Perhaps the easiest way for campaign coordinators or church administrators tasked with handling donations for an entire church to turn in said donations is to fill out the long-form church summary order sheet that includes all the orders from the entire church. Then you can mail it, along with a check reflecting its total, to your conference treasurer or directly to the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church at: Advance GCFA P.O. Box 9068, GPO New York, NY 10087-9068 DONATING ONLINE Individuals and entire churches can also donate online. Thorough step-by-step instructions for donating online through the Advance website, www.advancinghope.com, are included here in this handbook.
Supplemental Materials
CONTENTS Sample print-estimate request .................... 14 Short-form catalog order form ..................... 15 Online donation instructions ....................... 16 Long-form church summary order sheet ..... 17
REQUESTING A PRICE ESTIMATE FOR CATALOG PRINTING Use the sample email below as a guide for obtaining a price request from a local print shop. When sending in an email, make sure to attach PDF of the version of the catalog you wish to have printed.
Dear Manager: I would like to obtain a price estimate for my church for printing the catalog in the attached PDF file in (select one: full color / grayscale) on (select one: glossy / plain) double-sided, (select the size that corresponds to the PDF youve attached: A3 / tabloid) paper, with a full bleed. We are looking at a run of (insert number of copies you want printed here). What should this cost us? Thank you, (Your name here)
Alternative Giving
GIVE A GIFT CHRISTMAS
OF
GIFT NO. 1
3-LETTER GIFT PREFIX 2-DIGIT GIFT #
LOVE THIS
UNIT PRICE
QUANTITY
In honor of
In memory of:
Fill out the form at right and submit it to the church office or place it in the Sunday offering plate along with cash or a check corresponding to the gift total. For those wishing to make a donation online, see the reverse for instructions.
Church administrators and online donors: Use the following key to determine the correct Advance number for individual catalog items. CATALOG PREFIX TO ADVANCE NUMBER KEY
CDA..............14916A CDH..............3020542 CHL..............14921A FEM..............14923A MBS..............14917A RES...............00230A* SCH..............3020791 WLP..............3020788 WTN.............3020789
* MUST SPECIFY CHRISTIAN ED
UNIT PRICE
QUANTITY
In honor of
In memory of:
UNIT PRICE
QUANTITY
$ $
In honor of
In memory of:
The Methodist Mission in Cambodia, in partnership with The Advance of the United Methodist Church
CASH
A CHECK
Alternative Giving
GIVE A GIFT CHRISTMAS
OF
GIFT NO. 1
3-LETTER GIFT PREFIX 2-DIGIT GIFT #
LOVE THIS
UNIT PRICE
QUANTITY
In honor of
In memory of:
Fill out the form at right and submit it to the church office or place it in the Sunday offering plate along with cash or a check corresponding to the gift total. For those wishing to make a donation online, see the reverse for instructions.
Church administrators and online donors: Use the following key to determine the correct Advance number for individual catalog items. CATALOG PREFIX TO ADVANCE NUMBER KEY
CDA..............14916A CDH..............3020542 CHL..............14921A FEM..............14923A MBS..............14917A RES...............00230A* SCH..............3020791 WLP..............3020788 WTN.............3020789
* MUST SPECIFY CHRISTIAN ED
UNIT PRICE
QUANTITY
In honor of
In memory of:
UNIT PRICE
QUANTITY
$ $
In honor of
In memory of:
The Methodist Mission in Cambodia, in partnership with The Advance of the United Methodist Church
CASH
A CHECK
6. Scroll past the project description. Under Ready to give? Enter the amount of your gift and click Donate.
7. Click Proceed to Checkout or, if desired, select Make another gift, and repeat steps 3-6. 8. If you have an account with the Advance Online, sign in. Otherwise, you can donate without creating an account by clicking the red No Account button. 9. Fill out your contact information.
NOTE: IF YOU WANT YOUR DONATION TO BE COUNTED TOWARD YOUR CHURCHS CAMPAIgN, BE SURE TO CHECK YES, ID LIKE THIS DONATION TO BE CREDITED TO MY CHURCH AT THIS POINT. (YOU WILL BE ASKED FOR INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR CHURCH ON THE NExT PAgE.)
FOR ExAMPLE, CATALOg ITEM CDA51 (PURCHASE A COW), HAS THE PREFIx CDA, WHICH CORRESPONDS TO ADvANCE #14916A.
4. Enter the Advance number into the Find Projects search bar and hit Search
10. Fill out your credit card payment information. Your payment will be processed when you click submit.
6. Scroll past the project description. Under Ready to give? Enter the amount of your gift and click Donate.
7. Click Proceed to Checkout or, if desired, select Make another gift, and repeat steps 3-6. 8. If you have an account with the Advance Online, sign in. Otherwise, you can donate without creating an account by clicking the red No Account button. 9. Fill out your contact information.
NOTE: IF YOU WANT YOUR DONATION TO BE COUNTED TOWARD YOUR CHURCHS CAMPAIgN, BE SURE TO CHECK YES, ID LIKE THIS DONATION TO BE CREDITED TO MY CHURCH AT THIS POINT. (YOU WILL BE ASKED FOR INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR CHURCH ON THE NExT PAgE.)
FOR ExAMPLE, CATALOg ITEM CDA51 (PURCHASE A COW), HAS THE PREFIx CDA, WHICH CORRESPONDS TO ADvANCE #14916A.
4. Enter the Advance number into the Find Projects search bar and hit Search
10. Fill out your credit card payment information. Your payment will be processed when you click submit.
Send this form along with a check for the total donations to your Conference Treasurer or to Advance GCFA, P.O. Box 9068, GPO, New York, NY 10087-9068.
Catalog # CDA-11 CDA-12 CDA-21 CDA-22 CDA-31 CDA-32 CDA-41 CDA-42 CDA-51 CDA-52 CDA-61 CDA-62 CDA-71 CDA-72 CDH-11 CDH-21 CDH-22 CDH-31 CDH-32 CHL-11 CHL-21 CHL-22 FEM-01 FEM-02 MBS-01 RES-01 RES-02 SCH-01 SCH-02 WLP-11 WLP-12 WTN-21 WTN-22 The Advance 14916a 14916a 14916a 14916a 14916a 14916a 14916a 14916a 14916a 14916a 14916a 14916a 14916a 14916a 3020542 3020542 3020542 3020542 3020542 14921a 14921a 14921a 14923a 14923a 14917a 00230a 00230a 3020791 3020791 3020788 3020788 3020789 3020789 Gifts to support Cambodia Mission Initiative Dig a well ($500) Hygiene workshop ($50) Small business start-up fund ($200) Financial skills training ($50) Water pump ($500) Fuel supply for irrigation project ($50) Rice bank 1 ton of rice ($250) Rice bank 100kg of rice ($25) Cow ($300) Share of cow ($30) Vegetable garden plot & seeds ($200) Share of vegetable garden ($20) House & feed for chickens ($50) Baby chick or duckling ($1) Sub-total for 14916a Pre-natal vitamins ($5) Lice Comb ($10) Shampoo ($2) Round-trip hospital transport ($10) Meal supplement during hospital stay ($1) Sub-total for 3020542 Elementary child school uniform ($10) Christmas gift & meal for one child ($5) Props for Christmas Pageant ($20) Sub-total for 14921a Mechanic training for rural youth ($350) Wrench set ($15) Sub-total for 14923a Bible School Tuition for pastors ($500) Sub-total for 14917a Sunday School resources for 1 child ($5) Sunday School teacher training ($40) Sub-total for 00230a memo: Christian Ed Full-year university tuition ($400) Textbooks ($40) Sub-total for 3020791 Ream of Silk Thread ($200) Basket Supplies ($10) Sub-total for 3020788 Conflict resolution fellowship meal ($30) Conflict resolution study guide ($2) Sub-total for 3020789 Total # units purchased Total Donation