Kristen Hammett Vice President Family Generosity Services Signatry Nonprofit Impact Financial Finish Line Podcast
Finish Line Podcast Episode 174

Kristin Hammett, VP at the Signatry, on Family Alignment Over Agreement in Giving

You want to steward God’s resources faithfully. But questions about generosity, calling, and impact are rarely simple.

In this conversation, you’ll hear from someone who has walked through these kinds of questions and learned along the way. Listen for the next step God may be inviting you to take.


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Meet your guide

Raised on a central Missouri farm, Kristin Hammett grew up in a family that loved Jesus and lived out steady generosity, even amid the financial uncertainties of farming life. Watching her parents faithfully give a tithe planted early seeds, but it was during college that she made a deeper commitment to Christ, a decision that quietly set the trajectory for everything that followed.

After college, she entered a sales role with a Fortune 50 company, surrounded by benefits and success, yet she began to sense that God might be inviting her into something more than selling consumer goods. After a season as a stay-at-home mom, she discovered a growing desire to see how her professional skills might serve Kingdom purposes. That curiosity led her to become the first part time development director at a local pregnancy center, where God reshaped her understanding of fundraising as ministry, connecting donors to the doers and inviting people to join Him where He is already working. That journey eventually opened the door to joining The Signatry, helping donors steward all God has entrusted to them for Kingdom impact.

As Vice President of Family Generosity Services at The Signatry, Kristin has spent her career helping families move from reactive giving to intentional stewardship rooted in faith. Drawing from deep experience on both the nonprofit and givers sides, she now guides families towards alignment, trust, and faithfulness in how they move towards intentional generosity together.

What you’ll gain

  • Generosity as discipline, then joyful invitation
  • Stewarding all assets, not just cash
  • Fundraising as ministry and relationship
  • Connecting donors and doers in God’s work
  • Evaluating impact above overhead in giving
  • Understanding cause dynamics and realistic impact outcomes
  • Trust and partnership between givers and ministries
  • Thinking through non-cash gifts
  • Alignment over agreement in family generosity

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Quotes to Remember

  • “God has all the resources that He needs to fund His work. My role is to connect the resources He’s entrusted to people with the work He’s already doing.”
  • “Impact needs to come before overhead.”
  • “If we’re only asking people to give from cash, we’re really not asking them to steward all that God has entrusted to them.”
  • “Let’s begin to change the conversation, not just about cash, but about all of their assets, and help them understand how those are an opportunity for generosity.”
  • “When you realize you’re connecting the donors and the doers, that’s a pretty incredible place to be.”
  • “You’re not trying to get something from someone. You’re inviting them to join God where He’s already at work.”
  • “In a family, alignment is much more important than agreement.”
  • “If you want everyone to give to exactly what you want to give to, that’s a top-down approach, and it rarely creates enthusiasm.”
  • “If you hold it open-handed and prioritize alignment over agreement, you’ll often find much more joy and engagement.”
  • “Donors are operating in a currency of trust. That trusted partnership is absolutely critical.”
  • “When there’s a trusted partnership between the giver and the organization, God does something formative in both.”
  • “Fundraising is ministry. Anytime you’re engaging someone around their resources, their finances, and their heart, that’s ministry.”
  • “We need to dissolve the barrier between where the ministry happens and where the money comes in, and realize it’s all ministry.”
  • “God doesn’t need our money. He wants our hearts. And that’s really, at the end of the day, the message of generosity.”
  • “Generosity is not just for the ultra high net worth or those making a lot of money, it’s for everyone. God is not interested in the zeros. He’s interested in obedience.”
  • “We’re stewarding our whole life, not just our financial resources, because He wants our heart.”

Links from the Show

Bible References from the Show

Malachi 3:10 | Testing God in Giving

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Matthew 6:21 | Treasure and the Heart

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Psalm 50:10 | God Owns Everything

For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.

Philippians 4:15–19 | Giving as Partnership

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