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Connecting businesspeople and professionals
to Christ
Review 2017 and Outlook 2018
Moving forwards
Wouter Droppers
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For we decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
Although the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, to us it is the power of God.
Our speech and our message are not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit
and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
(Free to 1 Corinthians 1: 18 – 2:5)
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Inhoud
0.0 Preface ......................................................................................................................................... 4
1.0 Review 2017 ................................................................................................................................ 5
2.0 SWOT analysis ............................................................................................................................. 8
3.0 Europartners priorities 2018 ....................................................................................................... 9
4.0 Long Term Strategy and Priorities (2016) – 2020 ...................................................................... 15
5.0 Budget and Finances 2018 ........................................................................................................ 16
Annex 1, Timeline, action plan Europartners ........................................................................................ 17
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0.0 Preface
Moving forward is the title of this outlook. By writing this I realize that we are very blessed to be able
to say so. Because this title means that we are on track and that all our plans, longings and desires
fall into their places. We would like to move forward in the direction we set, and make everything
more fruitful and more blossoming, so God will be glorified in the marketplace in Europe, more and
more. We are grateful for everything God did and would like to give all praise and honour to our
God, for that of what we were able to do.
What is this fruit and blessing?
Our objective is:
That all business leaders, -owners and (young)professionals accept Jesus as their Saviour and Lord,
and that they reflect Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God in the way they behave, speak and conduct
their business, so that all people honour and glorify God for who He is.
Just to give 2 examples on a ministry level of what God is doing:
• Starting a small CBMC team in Azerbaijan, for us out of the bleu, with businesspeople who
would like it to grow and bring it to other Muslim nations as well.
• Speaking with our German friends, who are eager to translate our ‘God at Work course’ in
the German language and roll it out in Germany among their groups.
On a personal level we receive regular and often these kinds of messages by mail:
• On my personal behalf, I would like to thank you for such a great time, wisdom and teaching
shared on the conference.
• Just wanted to say a big thank you for all that you and Europartners have done for us and
many others! God bless you abundantly!!
In activities (briefly):
• Twelve mission trips, and two of them in a Muslim nation. In one of these Muslim nations we
could even share the gospel with government officials.
• The annual conference in Budapest in February; we had more than a 100 participants and
were able to attract many young leaders, who laid the foundation for the start of our Young
Professionals Academy.
• The Young Professionals Academy was one of the new promises and we made a promising
start. In May Frans van Santen became coordinator for this program and part of the
Europartners staff. We were able to organize 3 weekends already in 2017.
• We were able to launch our Marketplace Ambassadors basic training in Albania in November
and have run 2 Coach trainings in person and 2 Follow-up trainings at the internet in an 8
weeks webinar training.
The quality:
The quality of our programs and resources can be measured by some unexpected spin-off outside
Europe. CBMC Latin Amerika has reviewed our Young Professionals Academy and decided to launch
it in Latin America as well. In South Korea they are going to translate our booklets for small groups
regarding Business God’s way, and in Africa we had been invited to give the training ‘Starting and
running a Christian Business’.
We are grateful to God to be blessed like this and that He allows us to serve in Europe and his
Kingdom.
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1.0 Review 2017
We already informed you about the fruit in general in the preface. In this chapter we will compare the goals set with the result and pay attention to some other topics too.
1.1 Get informed
We also would like to inform you about our monthly update and prayer letters. In these letters you receive a detailed update at a monthly base. These letters enable you to pray for us as well, and stay close throughout the year. If you don’t receive them yet, and you would like to be part of the Europartners family and prayer warriors please subscribe and support our mission with your prayers. You can subscribe easily by writing an e-mail to: [email protected]
1.2 2017 regarding to our goals as set
1.2.1 Mission trips.
We are glad that we were able to make 12 mission trips and outreaches in various nations. Special nations were: Uzbekistan and Uganda, next to the various European nations like Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, Belgium, Slovakia, UK, France, Hungary and Albania. Uzbekistan was on a special request from the government to one of our friends in Europe, who has a business in this nation. They asked us to teach about business at a conference for entrepreneurs with small and medium size businesses, to stimulate business and economic growth. We have also build special relationships and could share the good news with individuals. Uganda was a trip to support Africa. As Europartners we would like to share from our wealth, knowledge and resources with others as well. Out of this perspective the board granted Wouter to make 1 trip every year to support (CBMC) Africa. At this conference we spoke about starting, maintaining and running a Christian business. In Africa is everyone more or less a Christian, but the application of faith to their daily business life is still a topic to develop, as in Europe.
1.2.2 Conference Budapest.
As mentioned in the preface, it was a success with many young professionals and also the celebration of 25-years of KEVE (our Hungarian partner). Topics we have covered were:
• Generosity, with Adam Walach,
• Unashamed ethical, with Patrick Kuwana,
• Living in a VUCA world, with Paul Donders,
• City Vision, with Tony Hodges.
We had also various testimonies and workshops. A highlight was the Young Professionals program and the start of our young professional network with Frans leading it.
1.2.3 Young Professionals.
We launched our Young Professional Academy (YPA) in February 2017. This is an intensive three-year training program for young professionals. Since the launch, we organized weekends in Romania, Ukraine and Spain. The trainings have been very well received. Participants appreciate the following in particular:
• Open atmosphere which stimulates learning;
• Relevant teachings which are both Biblical and practical in the business life;
• The subjects we teach which are at the heart of many young professionals’ lives;
• The availability and vulnerability of the teachers;
• The mentoring program.
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A fancy summary of their experience can be found in this short but great video! https://vimeo.com/225089109
Mentoring
The young professionals who attended one of our weekends are now part of our mentoring program. This means that they have a mentor who is available every six to eight weeks for discussion, learning, accountability and prayer. The mentor is an experienced business person from the Europartners network. We are glad that many people from our network have signed up to become a mentor. They experience it as joy to invest in the lives of these upcoming leaders.
1.2.4 BridgeMeetings.
With the BridgeMeetings we didn’t achieve the goals as planned. We did two international trainings to engage people, but till this point not many people started using the tool and the model. There was a lot of interest and engagement, but none had started this year. In a survey we discovered that people feel not capable to run them, and that we should work on the format (more informal and less strict) and the way of presenting it (not a training and program, but the facilitation of meeting each other around life and business). The BridgeMeetings and their improvement will be one of our focus points for 2018.
1.2.5 Coach training.
This training is well received, the quality is high, and people liked it. We did two in-person trainings and two sessions of 8-weeks by webinar. We experienced that people catch the content and idea of coaching and start changing their natural behavior into questioning and listening, instead of telling and judging. For sharing the gospel this is a great tool in today’s culture where people would like to discover and explore on their own, instead of being told what to do. The spin-off to family life and business is also tremendous. Business culture and marriages are changing. We will maintain working on introducing this as a life style. The course is also translated in the Spanish and Portuguese languages.
1.2.6 Establishing and helping (CBMC) business ministries.
We did many skype calls and visits to the presidents and chairpersons of the various ministries. In this we contributed to the quality and dynamic of the various CBMC missions. For example:
• A brainstorm session of one afternoon with the CBMC board in Latvia
• We could establish new and younger leadership in Belgium
• CBMC/ASPEC Portugal is on the move again and active
New ministries established in 2017 are:
• A CBMC ministry in Azerbaijan,
• Two new CBMC ministries in Ukraine, one in Kiev and one for the other parts of Ukraine.
Grateful We don’t want to take the credits for everything that is happening on a local level. It is because of the local business people and initiators that things fall into place. They way they listen to God, understand his voice and execute the plans make the difference. We can only help and come alongside. We watch, we are elated and see God working.
Connecting ministries in numbers: • In total we count 46 European nations • We have connecting ministries in 28 nations • In 18 nations we have developed and connected business ministries • In 10 nations we have small connected business ministries • In 18 nations we are not connected at all
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1.2.7 Developing new resources
• New and available for small groups are our Leadership studies about Moses, David and Paul.
• New is the study and test for spiritual gifts, for mentoring and the young professionals
• New is also the CBMC guide for healthy and vital CBMC Ministries
These are all available at our website and free to download.
• In Portuguese and in Spanish are also available now: Operation Timothy, Finances for small
group studies, the Coaching manual, and Finding your calling and destination
1.2.8 Prayer
• Monthly prayer letter grew from 71 to 118
• Our closed Facebook Prayer Group grew from 46 to 61
1.2.9 Communication and PR
• Unique Visitors websites (annual) from 29.394 to 17.008
Due to a software error for Google grants and AdWords after February and no Conference
page and promotion for 2018.
People visit most the homepage, then the Conference pages and after this the Young
Professionals pages.
• Newsflash readers from 1.982 to 2.081
• Facebook EP-group (Likes) from 1.561 to 1.660
- Wouter’s connections from 2.340 to 2.558
- Europartners group from 90 to 116
• Xing Germany (Wouter’s connections) from 141 to 146
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2.0 SWOT analysis
Strong
• Vision and spiritual attitude
• Leadership
• Years of experience
• Network in the nations, with various ministries and people
• Strong financial partner for the basic operation
• Resource centre, trainings and tools
• Cooperation with CBMC, Alpha, Compass, and X-pand
• Website and image
• Focus on business (ministry) leaders, young professionals and non-Christians
• Strong programs for reaching these target groups and training our people
• Having good mentors
Weak
• Variety of ministry focusses by our national partners
• Some national partners have no board or leadership teams
• Many small and individual ministries in the various nations
• Volunteers/partners who are not able to pay for their own expenses
• The average age of the members of the founding ministries of Europartners
• Inward and national focus of the strong ministries
Opportunities
• To get involved in business and economy as Christians is a hot topic these days
• Vision for young professionals in nations and ministries
• The longing for purpose economy and the search for meaning
• The awareness that we should change to create a better future
• Better technology and opportunities
• Easier to make a difference, due to the public selfish and narcistic leadership styles nowadays
Threats
• Welfare thinking within the Christian culture.
• Narrowing Christianity to ethics on life and gender issues
• Feel good Christianity, focus on own life and feeling
• Compartmentalizing life in business, personal and spiritual
• Seeing evangelism and discipleship as an added job, instead of a lifestyle
• Thinking in terms of projects, numbers and money
• Seeing own status and glory as the primary driver for being active in the Christian field.
Saying: ‘I would like to make the difference’.
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3.0 Europartners priorities 2018
3.1 Introduction and starting points
Helping national business ministries to equip, and (young) professionals, entrepreneurs and
business leaders to be a Marketplace Ambassador for Christ is our prime focus and goal.
We focus on evangelism and discipleship in a new era (the 21th century) and in a business culture.
Evangelism
We believe in building relationships and coming alongside by our friends, peers and colleges with
respect and love. The coaching skills and attitude of respect (people make their own journey),
listening, and asking open questions, we see as essential in helping our friends to find Christ. We will
try to make the coaching attitude to a characteristic of all Europartners’ friends and a default
attitude of all our Christian business leaders and professionals.
At the same base we offer the BridgeMeetings as a place where (Christian and non-Christian) can
meet and explore life, business and themselves. Next to this we offer Operation Timothy as a one-to
one tool, and the Alpha Business course as a tool for small groups.
We have training and trainers available to support the nations, the ministries and our friends in
developing their skills to become a marketplace ambassador for Christ.
As Christian businesspeople and professionals we are marketplace ambassadors of Christ. God is
making His appeal through us; to beg the world on behalf of Christ, to be reconciled to God.
(Reference to: 2 Corinthians 5:20)
The kingdom of God
Today many ministries and Christians focus on the Kingdom of God, but there is no Kingdom or
building of the Kingdom without Christ and a submission to his Lordship. All people need to be born
again first, before they can enter the Kingdom. As Jesus is saying:
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. …………and Jesus
answered ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the
kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
(John 3:3-5)
Jesus speaks in the same line about the Kingdom in Mark 1:15 about repentance, as a condition. He
points to Himself as the King and the realisation of the Kingdom.
In Luke 17:21 Jesus says, the Kingdom is not visible and tangible (so it is not in institutions or
companies). In John 18:36, Jesus is saying, that the Kingdom is not of this earth. (it is not how we
would view or build it). The Kingdom is Jesus and his Authority. The Holy Spirit executes His power in
and throughout us. For our era the Kingdom is not outside, it is within. The only building and
expansion of the Kingdom is by people who repent, accept Christ as Saviour and Lord, and turn away
from their natural behaviour by being their own lord. Therefore we focus on people and their
relationship to Christ first and above all.
The eminence of Christ and our relationship to Him is the key of everything, also of the Kingdom.
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Discipleship and leadership
Discipleship is being a student. We listen, practise and learn. We dedicate our whole life to God,
including our finances, business and leadership. Like Paul is saying:
I implore you by God’s mercy, to offer your very selves to Him: a living sacrifice, dedicated and fit for
his acceptance, the worship offered by mind and heart. (Romans 12:1-2)
Being a student, is practising and executing what we have heard and developing our talents, gifts and
skills we have received. It is also being a king and a leader, because if we serve other people we help
them discover Christ and to flourish and grow to the image and likeness of Christ. This is true
leadership; serving others with perspective and vision.
Business and finances are a part of discipleship. The way we view our calling towards God, men and
society make all the difference in the way we behave and conduct our business.
The key to all this is the heart and mind of men.
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. (Proverbs 4:23)
And
Conform no longer to the pattern of this present world, but be transformed by the renewal of your
minds. (Romans 12:2)
Who reigns the heart and minds of men, is the King of the earth. The Holy Spirit is the game-changer
in all this. To receive Him we need Christ before. Evangelism is the start, and discipleship the follow-
up.
Transformation
We as humans and Christians are not the gamechangers of this world, only Christ is. We as a Church
(the body of Christ) are not the hope of the world, only Christ Himself is. It is Christ who will set this
world free from sin. We as humans cannot do this. We can only witness of Christ and share the good
news of who He is and what He did and will do.
• Jesus already set us free from the penalty of sin, that is the past.
• Jesus set us free from the power of sin, by his dead, resurrection, his Holy Spirit and grace,
and by allowing us to be part of his Glory. That is now. It happened and is happing.
• Jesus will set us free from the presence of sin, that is the future. When He takes away all evil
and Satan out of this world.
Sin is the killer of human life, therefore that is our biggest enemy. Sin takes the good life as meant by
God, the joy and pleasure of a Godly life that is full of righteousness, love and goodness. Therefore it
is in the best interest of people to accept Christ as their Saviour and Lord.
Today many Christians focus on improving life, business, economies and cities to some kind of
heavenly standard. It is done by giving inspiration, a new and better perspective, the Christian values
or virtues and individual growth. But our problem is not that we lack dreams, ambitions or
perspectives. Our problem is sin, everything that is not from God, out of God or ruled by God.
Sin is inside us and not outside us. It is not in the structures, institutions, or our companies, it is us. Us
looking for our own ways, us being our own gods and lords. At the end we are our own problem.
Transformation goes by the way of dying to ourselves and not by improving ourselves.
All our focus on transforming nations, cities, culture, economy and society is in vain, if we not deal
with the human part of it, which is contaminated with sin. A nation, city or society is a gathering of
men. A culture is only a reflection of the heart of men in general. Economy is the household of a
society, and the reflection of economical choices men make. All these things are only reflections of
who we are. Therefore Europartners will always focus on individual people, on their hearts and
minds in their relationship with Christ.
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3.2 Activities and specific topics 2018
3.2.1 Mission trips
For the nations and dates see also Annex 1.
The goal of these trips is outreach, encouragement and helping the national ministries in reaching
their objectives or starting new (CBMC) business ministries.
Apart from the Young Professionals Academy and trainings we plan to visit 6-8 nations for this
purpose.
3.2.2 CBMC World Convention in Belfast June 21-23
This is by far the most important event to promote Europartners and CBMC and connect to new
relationships and nations.
Our goals are:
• Bringing in as many delegates as possible.
• Raising scholarships for the YP and people from eastern Europe.
• Taking care of pre-conference training: Coaching and BridgeMeetings
• Taking responsibility in the YP program
• Taking care for Master of Ceremony
• Fill the 90 min. European meeting
• Take care of buying in of the delegates to the local ministries of CBMC
3.2.3 Trainings, conference and retreats
Retreat for the ministry leaders, February 8-11. The goal of this retreat is to listen to God
individually and as a group. We would like to understand what God has in mind for our nations in
Europe, and our national business ministry especially.
Preparing and organising the conference of 2019. This conference we would like to dedicate to the publication of the book, that Wouter intends to write. Speakers of name can comment on it and the total package can give us more name and exposure. Trainings Two trainings are already in use:
• Being a Marketplace Ambassador of Christ. A two-day training for outreach to others,
about being a witness. We train the concept of being, we train coaching skills and we
offer the BridgeMeetings and the Alpha Business course as a tool.
• Building a CBMC ministry. A two-day training about the vision of CBMC, small groups,
building spiritual reproducers, and coaching as a skill.
Business God’s way, will be our third one. A two-day training about Business God’s way with Christian principles and Christian view on society, economy and business. Based on the content of our new book.
We would be delighted if we could facilitate these trainings in various nations and that they will be
used afterwards as their own national resource to equip and train their members and
businesspeople.
Promotion will be done during the Global CBMC convention in Belfast, during our European time.
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3.2.4 Young Professionals Academy
Our goal is to train a minimum of 15 European nations in the next few years. 2018 will be the year in
which we want to:
1. Train up to 10 nations;
2. Connect 50 to 100 young professionals to a mentor;
3. Finish our booklet and training for year 2 of the Academy and develop year 3.
Train the nations
We have planned already:
• YPA 1, Portugal, Armenia, Estonia, France, Northern Ireland, Romania (Bucharest),
• YPA 2 Romania (Cluy), Ukraine, Spain
Our promotion of the YP Academy has resulted in many countries being interested. Next to our
planning, we are expecting to be in Slovakia in 2018, and are hoping for Poland, and UK, as well.
Finland and Belarus may join the movement in 2019.
We are connected to CRU and IFES and both organizations are interested in working together in
nations that they are better connected to than we are. It is premature to envision where this may
lead us, but it is possible that we will be visiting nations that have not yet been mentioned.
Pick my brain- sessions
It is also possible for the local young professional movements to request Europartners for speakers.
This means that we will fly in a Christian entrepreneur who is very able to teach about subjects that
matter to the young professionals and are in line with Europartners’ goals. We call this a “Pick-your-
brain-session”. Ukraine is the first nation that has requested this, and we expect more nations to
follow.
Mentoring
Young professionals who are working in the marketplace can become part of our mentoring
program. The mentors are mostly from Western Europe. In 2018 we will be needing 20 to 40
mentors. The networks of Wouter, Frans and Abraham will be used to reach this number. Potential
mentors are always interviewed by Frans before they receive a possible “go”.
Development of our curriculum
Our curriculum is the following:
Year 1. Growing in self-leadership; this includes discovering God’s calling, and developing potential,
skills, talents, gifts and personality and character traits.
Year 2. Living as a Christian in the Marketplace; this includes teachings on a Biblical understanding of
work, business, economy and finances.
Year 3. Sharing the Gospel and becoming a spiritual reproducer; this includes teachings on
evangelism and discipleship, a personal application of the Gospel, and coaching.
In October 2017, Peter Briscoe started working on a booklet to be used in our trainings for year 2 and
we will finish this in March.
In august 2018 we will start working with Abraham on year 3.
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3.2.5 BridgeMeetings.
To make this program successful is our big challenge for 2018. Therefore we will work on:
• New pilots like, The Netherlands -Arnhem, UK -Oxford and/or Leeds, and we will run a pilot
in Africa-Zambia. We are still looking for a pilot place in Germany, south and east of Europe.
• Promote it at the CBMC Global Convention in Belfast.
• Train people in an international training, previous to the CBMC world convention.
• Make it a part of our Marketplace Ambassador training together with Alpha Business.
We will be content if the pilots fly-off well and new nations/cities apply for the tool or training.
3.2.6 Coach training.
We started 2018 already with a webinar of coaching at the internet in January.
We will also give a one-day in-person training prior to the CBMC Global Convention in Belfast.
This training will be followed-up with an 8-week webinar.
We also plan to offer this training in their own language in Spain and Portugal with our national
partners.
In 2018 we also would like to have the manual translated in the Ukrainian and Russian language.
In 2019 we would like to have the videos in place in these languages too.
There is also a planning for a roll-out in Romania in their language. In this we depend on our local
partner.
3.2.7 Developing new resources.
Resource Centre
We would like to expand our resource centre at the website with two topics
• Economy, a Christian perspective with resources from various people and organisations
• A (CBMC) business ministry, where we will publish our experience and insight to run a
healthy and vital (CBMC) business ministry
Next to this we will launch three new studies, introduction talks for small groups.
Book
In this book with the title ‘The tale of two cities’, Wouter will express his thoughts about society,
economy and business. We think that this specific approach is not there already. We also believe
that the book will help to promote Europartners as a movement and give it more profile.
We expect publication at a Europartners conference in 2019. It can also help to give the Europartners
conference more exposure and name.
A spin-off is the training, Business God’s way and workbooks for small groups, we can launch in 2019
and 2020.
3.2.8 Prayer.
We maintain focusing on this and try to raise the awareness and participation
• Expand the participants at the prayer group at Facebook 61 -> 75
• Expand the subscribers to the monthly update and prayer letter 118-> 150
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3.2.9 Communication and PR.
Awareness
Our goal is to grow in awareness and our main event to achieve this goal, is the CBMC World
Convention.
Our tools to communicate with our stakeholders are and remain:
• Personal visits and Skype/Gotomeeting
• Newsflash
• Monthly update and prayer report
• Website
Website
In 2018 we would like to promote our Resource Centre more and bring it in the spotlights
We will use the Newsflash, LinkedIn and Facebook to publish questions and make small publications
to draw people to our Resource Centre.
Social Media
Due to the policy of Facebook and its decreasing numbers and popularity, we will move to LinkedIn
more. The Europartners group will re-promote now LinkedIn, would like to put more attention to
groups and we will send more notifications and announcements by this medium.
BridgeMeetings
Because of the lacking results of the BridgeMeetings, we will reposition and pay more attention to it.
We will re-write the promotion, instruction and idea and make the website and information more
publicly and increase the promotion.
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4.0 Long Term Strategy and Priorities (2016) – 2020
Besides our regular work like coaching, training, mission trips/outreach, resources development and
our annual conference, we like to emphasise some parts of our work and the start of some new
initiatives:
2019
• Targeting high-end executives with their own meeting places. Like the BridgeMeetings
• Having a Coordinator Eastern Europe (non-EU) and a strategy for Eastern Europe (non-EU)
2020
Consultation, perfection and broader rollout:
• Developing more sustainable ministries with boards, bylaws, teams and a
director/coordinator
• Making a decision about what to do with the Muslim nations and Middle East.
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5.0 Budget and Finances 2018
We need an additional €50.000 to compensate the expansion of activities and our ambition.
The way we want to realize this is to use a mix of scenarios
• Donors for € 5.000 – 10.000 a year and a 3 to 4 year commitment, this needs personal
relationships and personal requests.
• Small donors with a monthly contribution and commitment of € 50 – € 200.
We will launch a campaign for this, and approach a select group of stakeholders of
Europartners.
• Crowdfunding. A new tool to fund projects like the Young Professionals Academy, the book
and scholarships.
The ultimate goal on the long term is to have a broader base of small donors and supporters of
Europartners, so we will be less dependable on our bigger donations.
Our comprehensive annual financial report 2017 and budget 2018 is available at our website:
https://www.europartners.org/donations-anbi (at the end of the page).
Budget for 2018
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Annex 1, Timeline, action plan Europartners
First half 2018
January
Coaching webinars
Mission trip, Paris
YPA-1, Portugal
February
National Leaders Retreat
Board meeting
March
YPA-1, Armenia
YP, meeting Kiev
Jim Firnstahl in Europe
April
Mission trip and visit, Belfast
Mission trip, Finland
YPA-1, Bucharest
May
Alpha and London
Hungary
June
Coach training, pre-convention, Belfast
BridgeMeeting training, pre-convention, Belfast
CBMC world Convention, Belfast
Board meeting, Belfast
Global Leadership team meeting, Belfast
YPA-2, Romania (Cluy)
Second Half 2018
July
Mission trip, Azerbaijan
Working on new resources
August
Holiday
Brainstorm and preparing year 3, curriculum YPA
Working on new resources
September
YPA-1, Estonia
Finishing new resources
October
Planning and budgeting 2019
YPA-2, Ukraine (Kiev)
November
YPA-2, Spain
YPA-1, Northern Ireland (Belfast)
Mission trip, Belarus
Board meeting
December
Mission trip – CBMC meeting/training, Africa,
Uganda