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The Power of a Well-Crafted Prospectus
Your prospectus is more than just a document—it’s the backbone of your fundraising strategy. A robust prospectus convinces potential funders of your church’s necessity, meaning, and worthiness of support. It assures investors that your church will be fiscally responsible, transparent, and capable of achieving outlined goals.
Our template simplifies this critical task. Think of it as a professional resume for your church, introducing your mission to potential investors and inviting their involvement. It won’t guarantee success, but it can undoubtedly ease your journey toward your goal.
The template consists of the following key sections:
- Cover: Eye catching cover design that quickly captures the readers attention.
- Intro: The history of church planting and why the tradition is continued today.
- Contents page: Help the reader navigate easily through the document.
- Welcome Letter: Our goal is to provide you with all the information you need to support us.
- The Area: What makes the church location an excellent fit for your church.
- The People: An overview of the demographics of the residents of your church location.
- Target Groups: Our strategic location allows us to serve various communities.
- The Need: The three key areas that need to be addressed to serve the church location.
- Our Church: Describes the mission and vision of your church.
- Our Values: The values the church embodies and upholds.
- Our Pastor: Introduce the face of your church.
- Our Timeline: Discusses the various milestones on the path to achieving your goals.
- Budget: You can duplicate the table as many times as you need to list all related expenses.
- Partner With Us: Invite supporters to make a one-time or recurring gift to support your work.
- Our Partners: A current list of partner churches, networks, and organizations.
- Support Us: Explain the different ways people can support your church planting mission.
- Thank You: Thank partners for supporting your church planting mission.
- Back Cover: Eye catching back cover design with contact details
Our LIGHT church planting prospectus template serves three primary purposes. Firstly, it persuades potential donors of the worthiness of your cause. Secondly, it demonstrates your organization’s fiscal responsibility, transparency, and capability to meet the proposed objectives. Lastly, it saves you precious time, energy, and resources, allowing you to focus on what you do best—serving your community. We’ve done the heavy lifting for you; all you need to do is tailor the template to your specific needs and goals.
This fully editable template encourages you to inject your unique brand and identity into every aspect of the proposal. From color schemes to text, and even the choice of images, each element can be tailored to reflect your organization’s persona. We’ve included free-to-use Google Fonts and stock images to further enrich your proposal’s aesthetics.
To expedite the funding application process further, we’ve streamlined the writing aspect. All you need to do is replace our example text with your specific fundraising targets, or simply use our examples as a guide Take the first step towards standing out in the world of fundraising with our Canva Church Planting Prospectus Template. Here, ease meets excellence, paving the way for your church’s success.
Example writing prompts
We estimate that it will take three years for [Insert Church Name] to become self-supporting. To do this, we need to raise [insert amount] our first year and [insert amount] over our first three years. This will go to compensate [insert number] full-time pastors, rent gathering space, purchase start-up equipment, resource missional initiatives such as our college ministry and add salaries for other key staff roles. We are seeking [insert number] financial partners to support us over the next three years.
As our initial target area, we have chosen a radius of [insert number] miles within [insert location]. We believe this strategic location will enable us to reach the cultural center of [insert location], hundreds of college and university students, and the rapidly growing urban core, which is vibrant, diverse, and eclectic.
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Open the template using the link found in the instruction guide. If you don’t already have a Canva account, sign up here (it’s completely free!).
Step Three
Edit everything as if you designed it yourself, including the layout, fonts, and images. It is also possible to duplicate pages to fit more content!
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