Not Every School Is Ready. Here's How to Know If Yours Is.
A practical guide for Christian school leaders who are serious about their next major funding initiative and want to move with confidence, not just momentum.
A capital campaign can be one of the most unifying seasons a school ever walks through. It can rally your board, your families, and your broader community around a shared vision in ways that nothing else quite replicates.
It can also expose every crack in your foundation.
The schools that struggle in campaigns rarely struggle because the vision was wrong. They struggle because they moved before the conditions were right: before leadership was truly aligned, before the board was genuinely engaged, or before the community had been cultivated enough to say yes at the level the campaign required.
This guide is not meant to talk you out of a campaign. It's meant to help you go in with clear eyes.
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WHAT'S INSIDE
Five indicators school leaders should examine honestly before taking the next step:
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Whether your leadership is aligned, not just interested
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Whether your vision is specific enough to actually fund
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Whether your governance structure can handle what a campaign requires
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Whether you have enough advancement foundation to build from
- Whether your ambition is proportional to your community's real capacity