PRESELLING!!!

Based on 30+ years of expertise and experience, author Bryan Taylors Worthy of the Gift journey will equip your team with the skills needed to assess your organization’s financial infrastructure and methodology, build relational skills and stewardship expertise, improve organizational structure and processes, enhance donor stewardship, inspire transformational gifts, and align your organization’s vision with your donors’ vision for funding Kingdom impact.  Cornerstone offers two versions of their journey. The Executive Journey provides an overview of the Worthy of the Gift methodology, allowing leaders to evaluate their organization’s and team’s current positioning on the “worthiness continuum,” and assists them in focusing their efforts to create a more donor-centric approach to securing transformational gifts. The Donor Development Journey dives deeper into the “how-to” of building organizational and personal worthiness. This journey provides organizational leaders, development team members, and fund-raising professionals with an assessment tool to evaluate where they and their organization fall on the “worthiness continuum” and guides them through the steps necessary to help improve their own personal worthiness and that of the organization they serve.

About the Author:

Mr. Bryan Taylor is a Cornerstone Principal and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of the firm. He has over 25 years of experience in portfolio management and design. Mr. Taylor oversees all operations and is Chairman of the Cornerstone Investment Committee.

Mr. Taylor joined Cornerstone in 1997 as a Financial Analyst. He later assumed the role of Portfolio Manager and Principal. Mr. Taylor began his career with a national brokerage firm where he passed his General Securities Registered Representative exam and gained portfolio management and design experience. Mr. Taylor is a frequent writer and speaker on the global economy and US markets. He has been a conference speaker at Christian Leadership Alliance, Association of Business Administrators Christian Colleges (ABACC), Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), Missio Nexus and other Christian nonprofit seminars across the country. In 2023, Mr. Taylor was appointed to the Board of Directors of the American Council on Gift Annuities (ACGA) and will serve a three-year term.

Review:

“Every ministry and nonprofit strives to share its vision and raise funds. This book does an incredible job of taking these complicated tasks and using storytelling to help us understand the concepts, followed by practical step-by-step guidance on how to implement them in our own organizations. Bryan’s decades of partnering with organizations make him uniquely qualified to take us on this beautiful journey. This book should become required reading for all current and future ministry leaders!”

—Mark A. Robison, CPCU, Chairman and President, Brotherhood Mutual