What type of events has your school been running and are you being as effective as you can be with them? We explore several opportunities that your school could be implementing and evaluating to maximize impact. Often, we do great at the planning pre-event and execute well at the event. What does the post-product look like? Publish the numbers and move on to the next? You might be missing some great opportunities to expand your mission through what you already have on the calendar!

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We all know the importance tuition has on our overall budgets. But when is the last time you truly evaluated your school's tuition rates? Was the conversation geared towards increasing tuition or was there ever a consideration of decreasing the rates? The only way we could ever consider a decrease is if our overall budget is more than satisfied, right? Randy Sadler and Bob Arritt of Padeia Academy share some incredible and transparent insights of their personal discoveries when they stepped back and assessed some of their financial metrics in tuition setting. This is a great conversation to help all schools take a more detailed look at their current rates and the impact it might be having on their bottom line.

IRA's, RMD's, & QCD's!

What do these acronyms mean and how can they provide a kingdom opportunity for both your donors and your school? Brad Blackburn, the founder of Dyadic Financial Management, joins us in this episode and shares some great insights that every school should consider to provide benefits back to their donors. Understanding a little about RMD's & QCD's can provide some great opportunities to further your mission and be a hero to your constituents!

If a person had said to your school board, "We are going to spend a year in our homes and all of your students are going to do virtual school", your board would have probably considered having that person committed. However, we all did it, and no one saw it coming. Very few had a strategy to deal with it, and the role of the board in strategy became very visible and needed. School boards play a crucial role in the strategic operations of Christian education, However, the next 5 years are expected to bring a new set of challenges as educational landscapes continue to evolve. From adapting to career needs to managing political pressure, to adapting to possible changes in school choice, school boards will need to navigate complex issues to ensure students receive the best education possible! This episode shares some great food for thought on current & upcoming issues that every school needs to prepare for.

In this episode, we have a conversation with philanthropist Wade McGuinn of McGuinn Homes. When learning about fundraising / development, we often focus on methods from within fundraising groups. But how often do we cross over the table and listen for the sake of learning from the givers themselves? Wade McGuinn provides some incredible insights of things we should consider when sharing our mission and building fellow missional champions.

Fortify Foundation exists to financially sustain Christian schools. Often, Christian schools struggle to find the right path in marketing who they are and what they are seeking to accomplish which leads to missed opportunities in growing their philanthropic efforts and building their much needed endowment fund.

In this podcast, we invite guest Andy Lynch, founder and CEO of Tassel, to join us to share an in-depth perspective of what it means to create healthy enrollment and how this ultimately impacts the financial growth and overall sustainability of your school.

Links & Resources

• Fortify Insights Article: Assessing the Impact of Enrollment Health on Organizational Life
• Tassel Website:
  https://www.tasselmarketing.com/contact/
• Fortify Foundation:
  www.fortifyfoundation.com

Yes, you read that title right! A truly effective board should be contributing to the fundraising efforts of your organization! If it's not happening, why not? Could this possibly be an area for growth? What would that effectively look like for your school and how can we create a change in the culture if it hasn't been happening? This podcast lays the foundation for all these questions and more!

As we continue our series on effective boards / board governance, Fortify Foundation invites Jeff Pickren of Covenant Christian Academy to share some wonderful insights on some of the past challenges they've faced along with current changes to avoid making some of those same past mistakes. Are your bylaws / policies including what they should be?