An act of God shakes up fundraising at Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

“With everything that had been going on in the world and the country, we had seen revenues plummet; we had seen responses plummet in cultivation and acquisitions; acquisitions was very poor, so it really did impact migration through the donor files, and it impacted giving,” Carpenter says. “Retention rates were poor, and giving was just down.