National City Christian Church Foundation

Feasibility study, annual giving + design

National City Christian Church Foundation was established in 1926 “to hold in trust, preserve, and maintain for all Disciples the physical facilities of National City Christian Church.”

Those physical facilities — specifically National City Christian Church’s neoclassical building in Washington, DC — require significant work. Their donor base is both local and national, as the building is actually owned by the denomination and yet inhabited by a local congregation. Alongside leadership of the Foundation, we worked on their year-end fundraising and in conducting a feasibility study to understand their fundraising potential and possible roadblocks. Our work included:

• coaching on creation of team and structure for feasibility study

• creation of project budget

• board facilitation

• writing and design for end-of-year fundraising letter

• writing and design for feasibility case statement

• creation of feasibility infrastructure

• receipt of surveys and conducting interviews

• data analysis

• creation of comprehensive report for next steps