Who plans and conducts the feasibility study?
This is the area of a capital campaign which benefits most from an outside consultant. This is a critical opportunity for your church to get a truly objective look at itself and the project it has planned. It is very difficult for an objective feasibility study to be accomplished using only internal personnel, who by definition are too close to your church. Internally, an ad hoc committee of five to eight persons should oversee the work of the consultant. The feasibility study committee will probably need to meet about four times during the study, and its work will be completed when the study is completed. The feasibility study committee has several tasks: –Review the case for support –Develop the list of people to be interviewed –Review the questions to be asked during the interviews –Help draft a letter to interview prospects prior to scheduling interviews –Meet with the consultant at midpoint during the interview process to assess progress –Review a draft of the report –Make
