Several years ago, a speaker at a national generosity conference made a presentation urging the audience to be strategic in their giving. The idea was that if you gave $1,000 to a ministry that will use it to reach 100 people for Christ, then that is a better use of funds than giving $1,000 to a ministry that is only going to reach 10 people for Christ.

In the audience was Joy Boerop ... read full post  |  4 comments

I once asked a dear friend of mine, Hugh Maclellan, what it’s like to be in the grant-making business. The Maclellan Foundation annually grants millions of dollars to ministries all over the world. Hugh was very quick to reply, “I am not in the grant-making business. I am in the grant-refusing business.” He went on to explain that during that year they received almost 4,000 grant requests but had