Showing posts with label fundraising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fundraising. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Fundraising books

On August 9, 2012, we mentioned studying fundraising strategies and techniques. 

Below is a recommended reading list we compiled for those who are interested:

1. Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits: Real-World Strategies That Work

2. The Everything Grant Writing Book: Create the perfect proposal to raise the funds you need

3. Relationship Fundraising: A Donor Based Approach to the Business of Raising Money

4. Fundraising on the Internet: The ePhilanthropyFoundation.org's Guide to Success Online

5. People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities

6. The Mercifully Brief, Real World Guide to Raising Thousands(If Not Tens of Thousands) of Dollars With Email

7. Fundraising When Money Is Tight: A Strategic and Practical Guide to Surviving Tough Times and Thriving in the Future

8. Nonprofit Internet Strategies: Best Practices for Marketing, Communications, and Fundraising Success

"We may take it then that an army...without provisions it is lost; without bases of supply it is lost." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War


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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Evolutionary gut feelings vs. a well funded Question Evolution! Campaign equals a lot of queasy evolutionists


On Friday, September 28, 2012, a 5 page document was sent to a Christian in New Zealand who successfully obtained an $8,000 Christian grant in the past with about 15-20 hours of grant writing work. He is a big fan of the work of Creation Ministries International and his friend is too. His friend, who also lives in New Zealand, is an active supporter of Christian evangelism and he may get involved in the grant writing too. Today, he is going to approach his friend concerning this matter. 

The document was about putting together a grant writing team for internet evangelism and the Question Evolution! Campaign its 15 questions for evolutionists. See: Internet evangelism is powerful especially when combined with creation evangelism

Will Christians in New Zealand help spark a revolution in the funding of anti-evolutionary efforts in the world? 

Evolutionary gut feelings vs. a well funded Question evolution! campaign

In January of 2012, the Journal of Research in Science Teaching published a study indicating that evolutionary belief is significantly based on gut feelings. A January 20, 2012 article entitled Belief in Evolution Boils Down to a Gut Feeling published by the website Live Science wrote of the research: "They found that intuition had a significant impact on what the students accepted, no matter how much they knew and regardless of their religious beliefs." See: Evolutionary gut feelings, "Belief in Evolution Boils Down to a Gut Feeling"

We believe that a well funded Question Evolution! Campaign which disseminates the 15 questions for evolutionists will have a significant effect on "evolutionary gut feelings". There is going to be a lot of evolutionists with stomach aches!

In the past, Christians have raised millions to promote biblical creation and an enormous amount on Christian evangelism. At any given time, there are 200-300 Christian grants for evangelism in the United States. We strongly believe that developing a Christian grant writing team and a team which engages in other types of fundraising as well is going to pay significant dividends. See: Winning the creation vs. evolution war through more firepower and A creation vs. evolution fundraising arms race has begun

One of the members of our group is interested in obtaining a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) certification.The biblical creation cause is an excellent cause and it deserves to be very well funded in order to carry out its work. 

The soft underbelly of Darwinism and the importance of sustained and aggressive efforts

Due to the rapid rise of biblical Christianity and creationism in the world and a recent Gallup poll indicating the creationism has grown in the last year or so in the United States, we firmly believe that the the evolutionary community has a soft underbelly and we are going to relentlessly pummel the soft underbelly of Darwinism.

A boxing fan recently wrote:
Despite all of the highlight reel type knockout’s you get with headshots in boxing, I’ve always been a much bigger fan of body shots—I truly believe that they are the most effective punch in boxing. Unless you are a huge, concussive puncher, not too many head punches have a devastating effect; a correctly delivered body punch may not knock your opponent out, but if you can leave him winded and breathless, it leaves you in a much better position to land more head shots, as your opponents hands suddenly come down to protect their ribs, fearful of another crunching shot to the body.
Body shots may not always deliver a knockout blow, but over time they do wear an opponent out and can cause him to collapse due to sheer debility and exhaustion.  Astute observers can already see that evolutionism has shaky legs and that it will inevitably hit the mat. Around the 1970s, prominent evolutionists lost hundreds of debates at colleges, universities and other public places.  As a result, they are now like timid little bunnies who are afraid to publicly debate.

We thought about delivering head shots to evolutionism/atheism, but unthinking evolutionists have no plan to stop the global decline of atheism/agnosticism and the rise of biblical Christianity/creationism which is expected to effect the West.  See: Evolutionists, atheists and agnostics: Where is your master plan to reverse your decline?

The queasy Mr. Darwin and his evolutionary gut feelings

For the last 45 years of Charles Darwin's life, he had an illness which often made him queasy. The 1992 New Encyclopedia Britannica declared that Charles Darwin's illness was psychogenic in origin (A psychogenic illness is one that originates in the mind or in mental condition).

Creation Ministries International has a few articles on this matter:

Charles Darwin’s mystery illness

Did you know? Darwin’s mystery illness

A 1997 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association declared concerning Darwin's illness that the "variable intensity of symptoms and chronic, prolonged course without physical deterioration also indicate that his illness was psychiatric." In addition, a journal article in the American Journal of Medicine indicated that Darwin suffered from "psychoneurosis provoked and exaggerated by his evolutionary ideas". The American Journal of Medicine article also indicated that Darwin's wife, Emma, greatly disapproved of his evolutionist ideas and "This, facsimile of public reaction, must have kept lively his anxiety and torment".

Charles Darwin who suffered from neurosis due to his evolutionary gut feelings and doubts often suffered from these medical symptoms: palpitations, shortness of breathe ("air fatigues" ), light headedness ("head swimming" ), trembling, crying, dying sensations, abdominal distress, and depersonalization ("treading on air and vision"), nausea, severe vomiting, flatulence, alimentary canal pain, various forms of eruption of the skin, and nervous exhaustion.

 Richard Milner wrote about Darwin's illness in the 2002 issue of Scientific American in an article entitled, "Putting Darwin in his Place" which indicated that Darwin clipped, catalogued and indexed hundreds of offprints, about 350 reviews and 1,600 articles, as well as satires, parodies and Punch caricatures, with which he filled hefty scrapbooks". After Charles Lyell published a very weak endorsement of Darwin's Antiquity of Man, Milner wrote that "Darwin's disappointment brought on 10 days of vomiting, faintness and stomach distress."

In a letter to the editor in the April 23/30 1997 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Colp wrote: "I believe that Darwin's illness consisted of panic disorder (without agoraphobia), psychosomatic skin disorder, and possibly Chagras disease of the stomach." Dr. Colp also mentioned that Darwin had facial eczema that often was caused by controversies over his evolutionist ideas.

Evolutionists and an ulcer epidemic

We are putting out a medical advisory to evolutionists. Due to an upcoming epidemic of ulcers among the evolutionists community who believe in evolution due to evolutionary gut feelings and have their evolutionary notions increasingly challenged, the promoters of the Question Evolution! Campaign and its 15 questions for evolutionists are going to be referred to by medical doctors as "carriers" of ulcers among evolutionists.

We highly suggest you abandon your rebellion to biblical authority and your evolutionary gut feelings and become believers in biblical creation now before its too late.

We know why dogmatic evolutionists promote evolutionary pseudoscience:  Why is evolution pushed by dogmatic evolutionists?

Related post

Will New Zealand Christians help spark a revolution in anti-evolution and internet evangelism fund raising?

Question Evolution! Campaign resources and other resources:

Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15

Evidence for Christianity

Refuting evolution


15 Questions Evolutionists STILL can't answer!



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Sunday, September 16, 2012

We are off to the races as far as developing our creation vs. evolution fundraising abilities

We are off to the races as far as enhancing our Question Evolution! Campaign group'a fundraising skills.


Questions:

1. What are the potential benefits of supercharging creation vs. evolution fundraising?

2. What are the best fundraising strategies for non-profits? 

3. What fundraising skills would our Question Evolution! Campaign group need to learn to optimize fundraising effrorts?  

We know that evolutionism cannot withstand cross-examination.  The biochemist Dr. Duane Gish, who endorsed the Question Evolution! Campaign, consistently won his 300+ public debates with evolutionists. And with the aid of increased fundraising the critical examination of Darwinism is going to occur on a much wider scale.

Creation of a fundraising team is off to an excellent start

An articulate gentleman with a divinity degree who is very zealous for the biblical creation cause and for evangelism has expressed a strong interest in engaging in fundraising for one of our Question Evolution! Campaign group's major initiatives (see: Our group's plan, strategy and tactics for advancing the Question Evolution! Campaign). In fact, he wants to have a discussion this upcoming weekend related to putting together a fundraising team. He has a proven track record of being able to raise funds for a ministry.

Eugenie Scott's BIG mistake

In January of 2012, the atheist and evolutionist Eugenie Scott made a comment that creationist groups were not well funded and had poor access to the media. That was a big mistake! It stirred up a fire in our group to up the ante and engage in fundraising in a big way. It also fired up a passion within our group to develop expertise in reaching the public through new media, mass media, news media and other channels.

Apparently, Eugenie Scott believes we still live in the days before conservative media outlets, the internet and powerful Christian public relations firms. Those days are over! The widespread dissemination of the secular left unfriendly movies Obama's America', The Passion of Christ and Expelled: No Intelligence Involved prove those days are over.

Past creationist and anti-evolution fundraising efforts

Recently, Answers In Genesis erected a 27 million dollar creation museum. In 2007, the intelligent design organization the Discovery Institute reported having an operating budget of 4.7 million dollars. The movie Expelled: No Intelligence Involved had a total production and marketing budget of $12 million.

Well executed and diligent Christian fundraising

Despite the current economic climate, I believe that there is a lot of funds available for Christian/creation groups who engage in worthy projects - especially when it comes to evangelism.

It does require the diligent and judicious use of manpower though in order to consistently meet fundraising objectives. This week we are seeking the advice/assistance of an experienced Christian fundraising professional with a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) certification.

Paying the price and doing what it takes

We will do what it takes to raise enough funds to make a big difference in the creation vs. evolution war. Contact major donors who have given funds to Christian causes in the past? We'll contact them! Write Christian grants? We'll do it! At any given time there are about 200-300 grants available for Christian evangelism. Internet fundraising? We'll do it. Contact friends, family and churches? We'll contact them! I know I will. I am not shy! If necessary, I will get a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) certification.

We want to create a fundraising juggernaut! Why? To sit in some corner office with plush carpeting? No, to put an end to the creation vs. evolution conflict by ending it in our favor. Our grassroots Question Evolution! Campaign isn't going to stop until evolutionary belief totally collapses in the world.

Excellent books on fundraising

On August 9, 2012, we mentioned studying fundraising strategies and techniques. 

Below is a recommended reading list we compiled for those who are interested:

1. Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits: Real-World Strategies That Work

2. The Everything Grant Writing Book: Create the perfect proposal to raise the funds you need

3. Relationship Fundraising: A Donor Based Approach to the Business of Raising Money

4. Fundraising on the Internet: The ePhilanthropyFoundation.org's Guide to Success Online

5. People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities

6. The Mercifully Brief, Real World Guide to Raising Thousands(If Not Tens of Thousands) of Dollars With Email

7. Fundraising When Money Is Tight: A Strategic and Practical Guide to Surviving Tough Times and Thriving in the Future

8. Nonprofit Internet Strategies: Best Practices for Marketing, Communications, and Fundraising Success

"We may take it then that an army...without provisions it is lost; without bases of supply it is lost." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War


Other resources:

Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15

Refuting evolution

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Description
English: Enchoen in Yurihama, Tottori prefecture, Japan
Date 27 September 2008
Source 663highland
Author 663highland
License:  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.





Source of picture: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enchoen27n3200.jpg