THE CHALLENGE
When a donor generously gifted a 12-acre plot of land to St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Elkhorn, Nebraska, leadership knew this presented a tremendous opportunity for a growing parish. The church family tripled in size over the course of two decades. With limited options to expand the current church building, the new land presented a home for a new parish campus. Bolstered by early major gifts, St. Patrick’s first conducted the campaign without counsel. But waning energy for the fundraising effort left a significant gap between the cost of building and
the funds raised. St. Patrick’s needed a new strategy to complete the project.
THE VISION
A clear vision for a completely new parish campus was the main objective. Details for the project included:
• Building a new church.
• Building a secondary parish hall, connected to the main building.
• Constructing an office complex on the second floor of the parish hall building.
• Completing outdoor spaces including parking for 500, a courtyard, garden and plazas.
THE SOLUTION
Church leadership chose to partner with the Steier Group to reinvigorate the fundraising efforts. The Steier Group’s graphic design team brought a fresh energy and creative spin on communications for the Growing in Faith Together Capital Campaign. The community responded with renewed enthusiasm. The Steier Group campaign manager leaned heavily into a strategy that used the parish’s charismatic pastor to relay messaging to the community. With the Steier Group’s help, this campaign raised an additional $19.9 million, exceeding the total project goal of $30 million.
“The Steier Group helped us with all aspects of our campaign. They assisted with parish communications and outreach and provided guidance on how to effectively target each of our donor segments. Throughout the entire campaign they helped coordinate campaign volunteer trainings, plan donor events, and prepare our campaign appeals. Their data-based practices were reassuring and helped us feel confident that we were doing the necessary things to have a successful campaign.”
Fr. Tom Fangman, Pastor, and Eric Crawford, Advancement Director
Campaign Stats
The Steier Group’s unique, hands-on campaign management model, combined with our expert grant writers, award-winning designers and creative fundraising strategies, allowed us to exceed goal.
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A Customized Approach
We founded our firm on the belief that the best capital campaign is one that is customized and executed by one team, under one roof. When you hire the Steier Group, you eliminate the need to contract with additional vendors for services like copywriting, graphic design, grant writing, video production, website development or wealth screening. We reject the one-size-fits-all approach to fundraising and embrace every opportunity to design a capital campaign plan that will maximize our client’s fundraising potential.
Contact Steier Group today
You have a vision for the growth and success of your church, school or organization. Now it’s time to gather the generous, wholehearted support you need to make it happen. Contact Steier Group today to discuss the benefits of a customized capital campaign.
