There may be times when a community or congregational service team needs up-front seed money for an activity:

• Ways congregational service teams can get up-front seed money for a Care in Congregations® activity



• Ways community service teams can get up-front seed money for a Care Abounds in Communities® activity

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• Use the funds raised locally by the service team to pay for activity expenses.
  
• Seek donations (supplies and dollars) from people and/or organizations.
  
• Make purchases from benefactor's standing account (e.g., the congregation may allow you to charge to its standing account).
  
• Charge supplies on a personal credit card and reimburse the person from the fund-raiser proceeds.
  
• Obtain funds from the congregation or its associated Lutheran institution (a day-care center, grade school, high school, etc.) that is the benefactor of the fund-raiser. (For example, by cohosting an activity with a Lutheran grade school that is the benefactor, the grade school may be willing to provide some of the up-front funds.)
  
• For a fund-raising activity, contact the chapter Congregational Service Team Director to check if the chapter can provide some chapter operating funds. The chapter leadership board can decide if it wants to "gift" the seed money, view it as a loan, or deny the request. (NOTE to chapters: If operating funds are provided and not reimbursed, please report that expenditure online in the Manage Chapter Operating Funds screens on the Chapter Leadership Administration page.)
• For hands-on service activities, the service team may request to receive up-front Care in Congregations® program dollars (up to 50 percent of total supplemental funds requested) to purchase supplies. This up-front request is entered when the activity request is entered.

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Ways community service teams can get up-front seed money for a Care Abounds in Communities® activity:

• For a fund-raising activity, contact the chapter leadership board to check if it can provide some chapter operating funds. The chapter leadership board can decide if it wants to "gift" the seed money, view it as a loan, or deny the request. (NOTE to chapters: If operating funds are provided and not reimbursed, please report that expenditure online in the Manage Chapter Operating Funds screens on the Chapter Leadership Administration page.)
  
• For hands-on service activities, the service team may request to receive up-front Care program dollars (up to 50 percent of total supplemental funds requested) to purchase supplies. This up-front request is entered when the activity request is entered. Note: Chapters may ask the service team to complete a Request for Pre-Funding - Hands-on Service Activity form (Word, 41K) to request prefunding for hands-on service activities. Chapter leaders can print this form (Word or PDF format) from their Order Chapter Supplies page on thrivent.com (under the "Chapter Supplies - printable format" category).
• Use the funds raised locally by the service team to pay for activity expenses.
  
• Seek donations (supplies and dollars) from people and/or organizations.
  
• Make purchases from the benefactor's standing account (e.g., a qualified not-for-profit organization may allow you to charge to its standing account).
  
• Charge supplies on a personal credit card and reimburse the person from the fund-raiser proceeds.
  
• Obtain the up-front money from the qualified not-for-profit organization(s) that is the benefactor of the fund-raiser. (For example, if you are cohosting an activity with a qualified not-for-profit organization that is the benefactor, the organization may be willing to provide some of the up-front funds.)

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For complete details about how to report operating funds expenses, see the Managing and Reporting Chapter Operating Funds quick reference guide (PDF, 302K))