In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, churches are discovering powerful new ways to fund their missions. Engiven’s platform for accepting stock and cryptocurrency donations represents a significant opportunity for your ministry, and we’re excited to announce this partnership and integration that will expand your donation offerings. Here’s why your church should consider embracing these alternative giving methods through Engiven and ACST giving solutions.
Benefits of Accepting Stock & Crypto Donations
Unlock Greater Generosity
The average stock donation through Engiven is $15,000. Think about what that could do for your ministry! Stock donations are typically major gifts that are up to 150 times larger than cash donations.
Reach New Donor Demographics
Stock and cryptocurrency donations open doors to new supporter groups, such as:
- Younger donors who are more likely to hold digital assets
- Tech professionals with significant cryptocurrency holdings
- Investors who maintain diversified portfolios including appreciated stocks
- High-capacity givers who may prefer to donate assets rather than cash
By accepting these alternative assets through Engiven, your ministry can connect with donors who might not otherwise contribute to your mission.
Diversify Your Funding Sources
Churches that rely solely on cash or check donations limit their financial resilience. By accepting multiple asset types through Engiven, your church can create more stable funding streams and reduce dependency on traditional giving methods. As church leaders already know, preparing for the future is a must, and that should include preparing for future financial trends, which will continue to include stock and cryptocurrency. Offering stock and crypto donations allows you to receive larger individual contributions than your traditional giving methods.
Demonstrating Financial Stewardship
Modern financial tools reflect sound stewardship principles. Your donors want to know you’re using their tithes and offerings in the best way possible to reach more people with God’s love. By accepting stock and crypto donations, you’re showing wise resource management and the ability for your church to adapt to changing technological and financial landscapes. These new offerings also demonstrate your commitment to maximizing every gift’s impact. And if your church is looking to grow now and in the future, showing younger generations that your leadership can adapt and embrace forward-thinking options while providing them more ways to donate is a win-win.
Our Integration with Engiven
While others may integrate to accept gifts with Engiven, we took it further to provide an integration that includes donation management with Realm and MP eGiving. This will allow you to receive and manage these donations without using another system. Add stock and cryptocurrency as giving options on any of your giving forms. Once a donor gives one of these gifts, you’ll see that gift in your giving and contributions solution and be able to track its progress. Once confirmed/paid, you can post that donation batch. Once that donation batch is posted, you will see it in reports and dashboards.
Your donors will be able to see the donation in their giving history and on their giving statements.
Getting Started
Once you have a Realm or MP eGiving account and a merchant account with Vanco, you can enable Engiven* in Realm or MinistryPlatform:
- Go to Settings and Additional Features
- Click Learn More in the Engiven section
- Click the Next Step Button
- The system will automatically fill in the information provided on the pop-up form. You will need to enter your ministry’s EIN and any other information not completed.
- Read and acknowledge Engiven’s terms and conditions.
- Click Enable.
- Go to Giving Settings and turn on your Stocks and Cryptocurrency giving methods.
- Start adding these options to your giving forms!
*Only available in the US
Leigh Ann Ortega
Leigh Ann joined the ACST team in 2019 as a Product Marketing Manager. She oversees the launch and overall communication of key solutions to support the church’s needs. Prior to joining ACST, she spent several years in communications and graphic design roles, most notably as a Communications Director for a large church in Florence, SC, where she leveraged Realm to help solve key ministry challenges.
