“Give and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6:38
In my prior life, I worked with churches across the country on fundraising. As you know, in the pews, there are all types of givers, each with unique situations and varied ways to give.
Not everyone can give a $1 million gift in their life insurance or several thousand acres of land. Some people work to give what they can, and often they need to be creative in how they give.
That’s why I helped create this list, with lots of very unique ways to give – everything from a hog to a pie sale.
Enjoy, and if you are interested in exploring any of these further, please let me know.
A: Antiques, automobiles, acres, annuities, auction unused items, attic treasures, artwork, action figures
B: Bonds, bequests, boats, bargain sales, books, bake sale, bonus check, birthday money, basement treasures
C: Cash, condos, cows, collections, crops, coins, Craigslist (sell unused “stuff”), clip coupons and give savings, corporate gifts, charitable gift annuity, charitable remainder trust, charitable lead trust, country club dues, crafts, comic book collection, church construction assistance, car wash
D: Diamonds, delay buying that new car and give your payment, dividends, deferred gift annuity, donate goods and services towards construction, dividend assignment, dinners
E: Estate, endowment, eBay (auction used “stuff’), electronic equipment, excavating, estate sale
F: Farming, furniture, fund-raisers, frequent flyer tickets, fine china, fasting proceeds, fishing equipment
G: Gift cards, gems, gold (bullion, certificates), gun collection, garage sale, grants, garage treasures, golf clubs
H: House, hogs, hunting equipment, horse, health club membership, hoagie sale
I: Invention (royalties), intangibles, interest, inventory, insurance proceeds, IRA, inheritance
J: Jewelry, jacket (furs), junk bond sale, junk to treasure, just for kids art sale
K: Krugerrand (gold coins), kitchen appliances, keyboard (computer equipment), knife collection
L: Labor, land, life insurance, life income trust, loose change, luxuries
M: Money, precious metals, motorcycle, matching gifts, monthly payments (payoff an item, continue to give monthly payment), make something and sell it
N: Notes (treasury), necklaces, nuggets (gold/silver), naming opportunities \Oil (rights, royalties), options (stock, etc.), organ (the instrument, not a body part), overtime pay, odds and ends
P: Percentage of estate, piano, property, paintings, pawn sale, planned gifts, pledges, prayer, pie sale
Q: Qualified charitable distribution (QCD), quarry, quilt, quarterly income, quail (livestock), quick sale, quill (pen collection)
R: Required minimum donation (RMD), rings (jewelry), real estate, refunds, royalties, retirement accounts, RV, raffle
S: Stock, silver, scholarship fund, sculpture, savings bond, sacrifice: give up something and give funds, i.e., premium cable and coffees, stamp collection, second income, stuff, suppers, sub sale
T: Testamentary trust, trusts, timber, tax refund, truck, TV, toy sale, tools, toy party, Tupperware party
U: Used car, use an item longer and give the cost of a new item, utility payments
V: Vacation home, violin/viola (antique), vacation/timeshare sale, vacation (shorten plans)
W:: Wardrobe (deceased person), watch (heirloom), wills, Walk-a- Thon, write letters to family and friends
X: Xerox machine (office equipment), xylem (plants/landscaping), xeric (moisture/air conditioning)
Y: Yacht, yard sale proceeds, yard equipment, yen (foreign exchange/leftover foreign monies)
Z: Zero-coupon bonds, zucchini (food stuff), zills (cymbals and drums), zebra (Just kidding, unless you happen to have one.)
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