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Seminary Advancement & Alumni Engagement

Extend the Classroom.
Fund the Future.

The disconnect between the seminary and the local church is real. Your alumni lose access to rigorous theological resourcing the moment they graduate, and your fundraising relies too heavily on a shrinking pool of major donors.

Multiply closes both gaps — giving your alumni the discipleship infrastructure their congregations need at a seminary-negotiated rate that saves them $2,400/year, while routing a monthly dividend back to your advancement office for every active church in the network.

20 hrsReclaimed per pastor / week
40% offSeminary-negotiated alumni rate
3 PlaysCompound revenue streams
7-DaySermon-to-curriculum turnaround
5 Slots2025–26 pilot cohort
What Multiply Is

The discipleship layer your alumni churches are missing.

Your alumni leave seminary theologically equipped — then spend their ministry years building discipleship from scratch, week after week, with no infrastructure. The gap between what they were trained to do and what they have the capacity to do is where most congregational drift happens.

Multiply closes the gap between Sunday and the rest of the week. Every sermon becomes the foundation of a full week of discipleship content — built automatically, branded to the church, and delivered in the pastor's voice.

The teaching they gave on Sunday continues reaching their congregation on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday — without a single additional hour of their time.

This is not a content subscription or a devotional app. It is infrastructure — built once, running continuously, specific to each church's pastor and congregation. Every alumni church that adopts it gets a discipleship engine that compounds over time.
Pastor-voiced, automatically
Built from the actual sermon. Sounds like the pastor who preached it — congregation members engage with their pastor's voice all week.
Zero additional weekly effort
The pastor preaches. Multiply builds the rest. No extra staff, no production cycle. Reflection prompts, touchpoints, next steps — all automated.
Church-branded and congregation-specific
Every experience is built for the congregation receiving it — their pastor's language, their church's stories, their community's context. Nothing generic.
Progressive and measurable
Content unlocks based on engagement. Leaders see who is growing, where people drop off, and what's working — in a single dashboard.
What changes in alumni churches

Six areas of congregational life
that shift when Multiply runs.

Your alumni are theologically equipped. What they lack is infrastructure — the systems to extend their voice beyond Sunday without adding to their workload. These are the six areas where that gap closes first.

New Member Journey
A designed path from first Sunday to real belonging — sermon-connected, in the pastor's voice, progressive week over week. Newcomers stop slipping away after the first visit.
First-Time Viewer Experience
Structured identification and follow-up for online viewers — tied to that week's message, beginning the moment the service ends. Online congregation becomes an active audience, not a passive one.
Volunteer & Leader Pipeline
SHAPE-based assessment that surfaces how each member is wired, then auto-matches them to real open roles with scenario-based training. Onboarding that used to take weeks compresses to days.
Giving & Generosity
Discipleship-connected giving — people give consistently to something they're actively growing in, not a separate campaign. Generosity becomes part of the formation journey, not a parallel ask.
Community Discovery
A prayer-shaped briefing connecting congregation DNA, neighborhood data, and three concrete 90-day plays for leadership discernment. Pastors stop guessing about their community and start acting.
Testimony Library
A searchable, sermon-ready library of member testimonies — pastors pull from it on Sunday, members share it with someone who needs to hear it. The congregation's story becomes a ministry asset.
Early signals
+42%
new member follow-through
2.3×
online viewer next-step rate
−60%
volunteer onboarding time
Directional data from our first Partner Circle cohort.
These numbers come from churches of 80–300 members in their first six months of deployment — a small cohort, which means we hold them with appropriate humility. They point in a clear direction. The 2025–26 seminary pilot is designed specifically to deepen this evidence base with larger congregations, longer timeframes, and documented case studies your advancement office can take to the board.
The pilot produces the proof. The proof unlocks the network.
What this means for your seminary: Every alumni church that makes progress in these six areas becomes a stronger advocate, a more committed partner, and a more productive node in the network your advancement office depends on. Healthier alumni churches are the precondition for this model — not a byproduct.
Academic & Formation Alignment

Extend your theological voice
into every alumni pulpit.

Multiply extends each pastor's voice — which means it can also carry your seminary's particular theological tradition into the congregations your alumni lead. That connection is the academic integration most institutions have never been able to build at scale.

01
Faculty-authored formation tracks
Your faculty develop 4–6 week continuing formation modules — once — distributed exclusively to your alumni network through Multiply. Alumni pastors receive your institution's theological voice as a regular presence in their ministry, not a distant memory from graduation.
02
Documented pastoral formation
Multiply's engagement data and testimony library surface real stories of pastoral growth and congregational transformation. Your faculty gains a living record of field formation — useful for research, accreditation narratives, and demonstrating measurable graduate impact.
03
Tradition-specific discipleship
Whether your institution is Wesleyan, Reformed, Pentecostal, Anabaptist, or another tradition — the discipleship content alumni churches receive can reflect your seminary's particular convictions, not a lowest-common-denominator framework.
Faculty Formation Model
Faculty contribute once.
The track pays them monthly.
Faculty-authored tracks generate subscription revenue from alumni pastors paying for rigorous ongoing study. 20–25% of that revenue routes back to the contributing faculty member as a formation royalty — a meaningful incentive with no draw from operating budget. The seminary keeps the remainder as Play 3 revenue. This is a royalty model, not work-for-hire.
$50
Per subscriber / monthAlumni pastor rate for premium formation tracks
25%
Faculty formation royaltyRoutes monthly to the contributing faculty member
75%
Seminary advancement shareFlows to your institution as Play 3 recurring revenue
Seminary Circle Pricing

Your alumni churches pay.
Your seminary earns.

Alumni churches access Multiply at a seminary-negotiated rate that saves them $2,400/year compared to going direct — paying at the local church level, not drawing from your institutional budget. The seminary earns a monthly dividend from every active church in the network.

Growth Plan
Public rate — direct to Multiply
$497 /month
  • Weekly sermon-connected experiences
  • All seven ministry areas
  • Engagement dashboard
  • Ministry Fit / volunteer pipeline
  • Testimony Library
  • Community Discovery
  • Seminary-negotiated rate
  • Alumni dividend to seminary
  • Faculty formation track access
Seminary Circle Rate
Seminary Circle Plan
For alumni churches in your network
$297 /month
Saves your alumni $2,400/year
  • Weekly sermon-connected experiences
  • All seven ministry areas
  • Engagement dashboard
  • Ministry Fit / volunteer pipeline
  • Testimony Library
  • Community Discovery
  • Seminary-negotiated network rate
  • Monthly dividend routed to seminary
  • Faculty formation track access
How the dividend works
Alumni churches pay Multiply directly at the Seminary Circle rate. Multiply remits a $40–50/month dividend per active church to your advancement office monthly — no campaigns, no asks, no events required. At 25 pilot churches that's $12,000–15,000/year in passive advancement revenue before Play 2 or Play 3 contribute a dollar. All payment processing, receipting, and dividend reporting is handled through your seminary's existing advancement infrastructure — no new systems needed.
The Revenue Playbook

Shift from Expense to Engine.

Through Multiply, your institution becomes a Circle Founder — turning alumni network adoption into three compounding revenue streams that fund scholarships and endowments.

PLAY01

The Alumni Dividend (Passive Revenue)

For every active alumni church in your network, Multiply routes a $40–50/month dividend directly to your advancement office — no asks, no campaigns, no friction. It runs every month the church is active.

1. InvitationSeminary invites alumni pastors to join the Circle at the negotiated network rate — saving them $2,400/year compared to going direct.
2. ActivationAlumni churches adopt Multiply for local discipleship. They pay at the church level. The seminary earns from every active church monthly.
3. DividendMultiply remits $40–50/month per active church to your advancement office. Clean, monthly, auditable.
PLAY02

The Scholarship Micro-Pledge

Alumni pastors champion a frictionless campaign where congregation members pledge $10/week to fund seminary scholarships — receiving a weekly theological reflection in return. Your seminary collects and receipts. Multiply handles content delivery.

1. The AskAlumni pastor champions the scholarship fund from the pulpit. Their congregation knows them — the trust transfers directly to the ask.
2. The ValueDonors receive a weekly theological reflection from your seminary — keeping the institution present in their lives year-round, not just at giving season.
3. ProcessingYour seminary collects pledges and issues receipts through existing advancement infrastructure. No new systems, no new vendors.
On donor cannibalization: Micro-pledge campaigns are positioned as scholarship-specific giving — a distinct category from existing church missions budgets or annual fund campaigns. Alumni pastors introduce it as a way their congregation can invest in the next generation of pastors, not a competing institutional ask.
PLAY03

Premium Continuing Formation

Faculty develop 4–6 week formation tracks distributed exclusively to the Seminary Circle at $50/month per subscriber. Faculty earn a 25% monthly royalty. Your institution keeps 75% as recurring advancement revenue. The track is built once and earns indefinitely.

1. CreationA faculty member develops one formation track — theologically rigorous, practically grounded, specific to your tradition. Built once.
2. DistributionPublished exclusively to Seminary Circle alumni pastors who subscribe to the premium formation tier.
3. Revenue split25% routes to the faculty member monthly as a formation royalty. 75% flows to your advancement office as recurring revenue.
On faculty incentives: This is a royalty model, not work-for-hire. Faculty contribute intellectual capital they already have; the platform gives it a distribution channel and a return. No draw from operating budget required.
The Pilot Program

12 months. 10–25 alumni churches.
Three documented outcomes.

The pilot cohort for the 2025–2026 academic year is open and limited to 5 seminary partnerships. It is designed to produce three things your advancement office can take to the board at month 12: a live dividend, a completed micro-pledge campaign, and a documented case study from every participating church.

Pilot size
10–25
Alumni churches per seminary — large enough for meaningful outcomes, small enough for quality at every church
Timeline
12 months
First dividend flows within 60 days of launch. First micro-pledge campaign runs in months 3–6. Case studies delivered at month 12.
Seminary commitment
1 person
One internal point person in Alumni or Church Relations. Multiply handles all delivery, support, and reporting.
01
Alumni Dividend live and documented
A monthly dividend statement showing active church count and total advancement revenue — ready for board presentation at month 12
02
At least one Micro-Pledge campaign completed
A scholarship fund campaign run through at least 5 pilot churches, with documented pledge volume and donor count
03
Ministry Effectiveness Case Study per church
A documented case study for every participating alumni church — what changed, what the pastor observed, what the congregation experienced
04
Clean off-ramp if it doesn't deliver
The strategy session is free. If the model doesn't produce at month 12, the seminary exits cleanly — no penalties, no strained alumni relationships
Who drives this internally
Designed for Advancement, Alumni Relations, and Church Relations leaders.
This model works when three roles are aligned inside your institution. Advancement leadership owns the financial case and board reporting. Alumni or Church Relations owns the pastor relationships and pilot recruitment. The President or Provost provides the mission alignment signal that makes alumni pastors take the invitation seriously. Multiply provides everything else.
VP / Director of Advancement
Primary buyer — owns financial model and board reporting
Alumni or Church Relations
Internal point person — manages pastor recruitment and relationships
President or Provost
Mission alignment signal — makes alumni take the invitation seriously
Faculty (optional, Play 3)
Formation track authors — contribute once, earn monthly royalty
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Partnership Models

Two ways to work together.

Whether your advancement team needs a toolset or a true strategic partner, both include the full Multiply platform and Circle Founder status.

Pace 1: The Platform

We equip your advancement team with the full toolset. You own the execution and retain the full dividend upside.

  • Full access to the Multiply Platform
  • Circle Founder setup & onboarding
  • Pilot church strategy mapping session
  • Your team manages daily network execution
Standard
Annual licensing
Most Chosen

Pace 2: Embedded Strategist

Leslie James joins your institutional advancement team — architecting, writing, and managing the entire engine alongside you.

  • Everything in Pace 1
  • Writing & scheduling all network content campaigns
  • Full rollout management to alumni pastors
  • Direct oversight of Premium Education distribution
  • Weekly strategy calls with Advancement Leadership
Retainer
+ Annual licensing

Pilot cohort for the 2025-2026 academic year is now open. Limited to 5 seminary partnerships.

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