How to Donate
The Missouri Family Policy Council (FPC) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that relies entirely on God’s provision through private donors for its success. While the Missouri FPC has a close association with Focus on the Family, it receives no funding support from that organization. The effectiveness of the organization’s educational, ministry, and outreach efforts depends completely on the generosity of Missouri families.
The Missouri Family Policy Council is governed by a Board of Directors who have demonstrated Christian integrity in their personal and professional life. The Board has adopted a Statement of Financial Integrity to assure honesty and accountability in the organization’s fundraising practices and allocation of expenditures.
We will never encourage donors to support the Missouri Family Policy Council before or in place of their Biblical responsibility to support the local church. We believe that the Church is where family support and family responsibility should and must begin. We will make our needs known to those who embrace the mission of our organization, but will never resort to dishonorable or manipulative methods in seeking funds for our work.
The operations of the Missouri Family Policy Council are supported by individual donors who can contribute smaller sums on a regular basis and major donors who can make substantial contributions on an annual or semi-annual basis. We ask for your financial support at whatever level and at whatever frequency God leads you to give.
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Statement of Financial Integrity for the Missouri Family Policy Council
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1. The Missouri
Family Policy Council is dedicated to the glorification of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and shall conduct its affairs in accordance with the
leading of the Holy Spirit.
2. Resources
available to the Missouri Family Policy Council belong to God, not to
man.
3. The Great
Commission of advancing the gospel and building up believers and
families in Biblical truth is both a responsibility and a blessing. Our
relationship as an organization and as individual staff members to
others in the body of Christ is one of ministry and service to them.
4. The will of God
regarding the success and outreach of the Missouri Family Policy Council
can be discerned through the financial support He sends through His
People. Therefore, we will make our needs known to those who embrace
the mission of the organization, but we will never resort to what we
consider to be dishonorable and manipulative methods in seeking funds
for our work.
5. We will not
operate the Missouri Family Policy Council at a deficit.
6. We will not
attempt to solicit more money than is needed for the successful
operation of the organization. We will ask for and accept only
appropriate gifts, being careful not to take advantage of any giver.
7. We will never
encourage donors to support the Missouri Family Policy Council before or
in place of their Biblical responsibility to support their local
church. We believe that the church is where family support and family
responsibility should and must begin.
8. All donations to
the Missouri Family Policy Council will be expended only in furtherance
of the mission of the organization and for no other purpose. We will
ensure that any designated funds are expended only as intended by the
donor. We will issue acknowledgements and receipts of contributions in
a timely fashion in accordance with IRS guidelines.
9. We consider
contributions received by the Missouri Family Policy Council to be gifts
sent from loving people of God who have sacrificed to make their
donations possible. We will do all within our knowledge and power to
see that such funds are spent judiciously and wisely to accomplish the
purposes of the organization. We will be in prayer for our financial
partners.
10. When the
Missouri Family Policy Council makes a purchase, we will pay the invoice
when due.
11. The Missouri
Family Policy Council will never sell, rent, or share our list of
financial donors with any other organization or individual. We will
maintain the tightest security with regard to our donor lists.
12. We will seek to
honor God and our donors through the highest standards of Christian
ethics in financial accounting and reporting.
