Support Raising
Books
Friend Raising: Building a Missionary Support Team that Lasts - by Betty Barnett. (YWAM Publishing)
People Raising: A Practical Guide To Raising Support - by William P. Dillon
Funding Your Ministry - by Scott Morton
Downloadable Books/Articles.
Missionary Care - has developed a series of brochures, a database, and eight e-books: four on re-entry, one titled "What Missionaries Ought to Know" (freshly revised and combining the series of brochures of the same name), one on TCKs, one on adolescence, and one on marriage issues.
Missionary Care E-books - Find out more info on E-books here.
Personal Support Raising And Resource Tools
Funding Your Ministry - a website providing YWAM/IHOP missionaries with lots of practical tools like sample newsletters / brochures, etc
Faith & Finances - a website by YWAM Madison with lots of "goodies", links and resources for personal support raising.
Software
TntMPD Ministry Partner Development - TntMPD is a free program for managing your relationships with your ministry partners. Although anyone might find it useful, it is designed specifically for missionaries who raise their own support. The hope in sharing TntMPD with you is that you, a fellow missionary, will have more time to do what God has called you to do. TntMPD is yours for free! This means that you can download it and run it for free. Feel free to share it with your friends. We hope you find this software useful to you and your ministry. TntMPD is available in: English, French, German, Russian Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Thai.
Peter Noonan’s Friend Files - is a program for managing information for people who raise support. This is not for home offices, but for the people out in the field (or individuals in home offices). The program is completely free.
Donor Manager - The Donor Manager is a free, Windows based program designed to help missionaries keep track of information about their ministry partners. It is designed specially for use in organizations where staff members raise their own financial support and want to build strong relationships with their donors / partners.
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