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by Dirk Rinker | Jul 22, 2024 | MEMBERSHIP
The results of the American Belief Study from ACS Technologies revealed that first-time visitors to a church or parish said a warm and friendly environment was highly important to them. While this is a great insight, the authors didn’t design the study to discover...
by Dirk Rinker | Nov 17, 2020 | EDUCATION, FUNDRAISING, MEMBERSHIP, METHODS, U.S. POLITICS
Can we even trust surveys? The last few elections could make people wonder if anybody can trust polls anymore. Time after time, election results were far different from polls, even for congressional seats and statehouses. When polling firms seem to get it wrong...
by Dirk Rinker | Apr 28, 2020 | FUNDRAISING, MEMBERSHIP
Nearly two thirds of US churches (64%) saw their income decline during the first month of the worldwide COVID19 pandemic, according to the State of the Plate poll conducted in April 2020 among 1,091 US pastors and church staff members. Nearly one in five respondents...
