[Magdalen] Budgets Question

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Reaching waaaay back into the early’90s when I was a vestry person and we were in a building campaign there was a way we could structure the pledge/donations to the BFund so that they did not count toward our assessment formula. I don’t know if it was a diocesan or national church approved “scheme” as our Anglican UK brotheren and sisterian might say. 

On Jan 23, 2018, at 8:52 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

I have a naughty outreach story:
I knew of a rector once who requested an gift to a pivate school.
Miraculously,
the amount of the gift was nearly identical
to the amount of his son’s tuition at that same school.

That said, I can imagine your discussions are lively.
I’ll be interested in the consensus.
My own thoughts?
Not declaring money you raise to the diocese
feels a little like money-laundering,
but I could probably be persuaded to think in the opposite direction.
-M

What is the practice out there for recording support of Outreach activities?
> 
> Our people are generous donors in all sorts of ways beyond Givings.  Our
> Outreach Committee would like a line in the Operating Budget that
> somehow reflects that our  financial plans extend to meeting needs of
> the less fortunate, locally, in the Diocese, nationally and
> internationally.  Does everyone routinely simply record outreach-type
> revenue as an in-out money-raised = money-paid component of Other Income?
> 
> One hitch is that our revenue figure as shown in the Operating Budget is
> used for our Diocesan assessment.
> 
> Just curious.  We're having a brisk discussion at this end that reflects
> several points of view.
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
>