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Special: 2008 Midwest Flooding National Chapter Response
Your chapter members can form service teams to raise funds that will go to those affected by the Midwest Flooding.
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Details about 2008 Midwest Flooding National Chapter Response
Through this response effort, your chapter members can form service teams to raise funds that will go to help those in need. For every $2 received by chapters nationally, Thrivent Financial will provide an additional $1, up to a total of $250,000. This effort has the potential to raise at least $750,000 to support recovery efforts.
All funds received will be distributed among these two disaster relief organizations to meet needs specifically related to the 2008 Midwest Flooding Response:
- Lutheran Disaster Response, a collaborative ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) to meet needs related to major domestic disasters.
- WELS Committe on Relief, a ministry of the Wisconsin Evengelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) to provide domestic and international disaster aid.
Thrivent Financial will accept contributions for this effort through Oct. 1, 2008.
A simple process
The process for planning, conducting and reporting National Chapter Response activities is simple.
Activity guidelines
- An eligible activity may be a collection/appeal or a fund-raising event.
- As with any Thrivent chapter activity, members from six or more different member households must be involved. (For example, the members from your chapter leadership board may be a service team.)
- No pre-approval is required for a National Chapter Response activity.
- TIP: Ask service teams to keep track of volunteer hours, expenses (save all receipts) and attendance in addition to funds raised. You will need this for reporting purposes (see below).
- All checks from donors must be made payable to your Thrivent chapter.
Handling the funds and reporting
- A chapter leader deposits all funds received into the chapter's checking account.
- Reminder: As with any fund-raising activity, your chapter should issue an acknowledgement of donation received for contributions received. (See guidelines)
- Complete the 2008 Midwest Flooding Response activity results form:
(Word, 81K) | (PDF, 29K)
The forms are also located on the following pages:
- Important: Do NOT report the results online. This will be done by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans when they receive the forms.
- From your chapter checking account, write out one check for the total amount of your net funds received to: Appleton Operations Center Chapter of Thrivent Financial. On the memo line, write "2008 Midwest Flood Response."
- Send the completed activity results form, any expense receipts, and your check to:
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Attention: 2008 Midwest Flooding National Chapter Response
4321 N. Ballard Rd
Appleton, Wisconsin 54919-0001
You may complete and submit a form and the funds raised after each activity, or you can compile results and funds raised from multiple activities, then send submit the form and all funds at one time.
TIP: For a general appeal/collection, we recommend you hold the funds in your checking account until your deadline (no later than Oct. 1) before sending the form, receipts and the check to Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
Use Bulletin Insert templates to announce activities
The following bulletin insert templates are available to help you get the word out to your chapter members. We encourage chapter leaders and congregational coordinators to work closely with each other so consistent communications are provided to members.
Simply fill in your information and print. Remember to get approval from congregations before creating these inserts.
The bulletin inserts are available on the Forms, For Chapter Leaders and For Congregational Coordinators pages on www.thrivent.com.
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