From Treading Water to Building a Legacy:
The Infrastructure That Funds Black Church Community Programs for the Next 20 Years
Your congregation is generous. Your programs are impactful. But every year the funding stays roughly the same, while the need around you keeps growing. This webinar is about what changes when you stop running campaigns and start running a system.
Paul Hosch
Founder & CEO of Nonprofit Fundraising Management (NFM), 30-Year Fundraising Expert, Over $50M Raised
Details
Most Black church and nonprofit leaders running active community programs are leaving $200,000 to $500,000 in accessible funding uncaptured every year. Not because the money is not there. Because the infrastructure to reach it consistently has never been built.
This is not a webinar about running better campaigns. It is a conversation about what a permanently funded community program operation actually looks like — the system behind it, why it works when everything else has not, and what it has produced for a real organization that was doing everything right and still could not break through the ceiling.
This was built specifically for Black church and nonprofit leaders who are actively running community programs and whose funding has not kept up with the size of their vision.
What You'll Learn
- Why the nonprofit down the street keeps winning grants you qualify for
- The difference between a money problem and a system vacancy
- What a fully functioning development infrastructure consists of
- Why infrastructure produces results that campaigns, consultants, and grant writers never can
- What happened when one Black church built this from scratch
- What the first step looks like and how the math compares to building this function in-house
Wednesday, June 3 · 12 PM – 1 PM EST
Reserve My Spot — It's Free
Online · Limited Spots
Why This Cannot Wait
The funding landscape is shifting right now. Here is what that means for your organization.
The Trump administration has proposed and in many cases executed cuts to the programs directly funding Black church community work.
Community Development Block Grants — cuts in motion Title XX Social Services Block Grants — funding reduced AmeriCorps — programs eliminated HUD Community Development Programs — restructured and reduced DEI Executive Orders — federal grant recipients directed to eliminate DEI programming as a condition of continued funding Philanthropic pullback — major foundations and corporate giving programs reducing racial equity-focused funding in response to political pressure
The organizations weathering this moment built diversified development infrastructure before it arrived. The ones that did not are scrambling.
This is not a political statement. It is our reality.
Every month without a diversified development infrastructure is a month of increased vulnerability. The organizations that move in the next 90 days will be in a fundamentally different position by this time next year. The ones that wait will still be running the same campaigns into a funding environment that is becoming less forgiving every month.
Real Results from Our Partners
How Churches Like Yours Are Getting Funded
NFM provided strategic guidance to ITC’s administration and governing board to support this pivotal shift in the 60-year old strategic direction. At the height of the pandemic NFM helped ITC begin to course correct on inherited challenges and build institutional capacity for significant fundraising
NFM assisted us in a space that churches often misuse—statistics. NFM showed us that measuring was a tool of evaluation for growth, not to be punitive. We looked at people, money, gifts, timing and more. All these were measures used now to see where we came up short in order to build up
NFM introduced us to an innovative funding model that’s set to revolutionize our financial sustainability and future growth."
Thanks to NFM, I’ve become a more effective fundraiser, significantly enhancing our ability to expand programs on a global scale."
Learning from NFM, amid a pandemic, congregational fundraising increased three consecutive years!"
Founder & CEO of nonprofit fundraising management (NFM)
Paul Hosch
Almost 30 years ago, I started helping churches raise money—not just for buildings, but for the work that really matters: feeding families, supporting youth, creating jobs, showing up for the community.
Most churches were stuck in the same cycle: pass the plate, pray it’s enough, repeat. I knew there was a better way. So I built one.
Since then, I’ve helped churches raise over $50 million, create repeatable donor pipelines, and fully fund the programs they were called to lead. Now I teach that exact method to leaders like you.