Long Range » LRCP Collaborative Plan
HOLY TRINITY PARISH
ST. EDMOND CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Long-Range Collaborative Plan (LRCP) PLANNING AREA A: Catholic Identity and Mission Challenges:
A-1 How do we make the practice of our faith our #1 priority?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Honor Catholic principals “magisterium”
2. School/church foster foundation of faith.
3. Parents practice faith
A. List of expectations
B. Convenient with participants (confirmation students, parents, 1st communion, married, EME, Catholic Schools)
4. Preach more on sin and guilt, old fashion
5. Print in bulletin rules “if living in sin, do not receive communion”
6. Support priests if they enforce Catholic rules.
7. Get back, stress importance of principals.
8. Invite people to understand religious freedom.
9. Make a loving community the priority.
10. Passive members (some never register)
11. Current events and how it relates to our faith discussion group. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #1)
1. Enable all to be able to hear the “message” of what is being said
2. Encourage strong leadership by promoting traditional worship services
3. Bring children to Mass at an early age
4. Develop self through Bible Study courses, retreats and etc.
5. Encourage new membership in existing groups
6. Become models of people practicing their faith
7. Welcome everyone
8. Attend variety of services offered
9. Reiterate practice of faith is Job #1
10. Create opportunities to keep learning open
11. Make faith priority #1 in our lives
12. Place bulletin boards at churches to highlight parts of Mass and faith
13. Help neighbors with transportation
14. Continue to invite and to use new tools and settings
15. Promote Catholic traditions in today’s world
16. Involve the children
17. Preserve variety of traditional services
18. Expand adoration to blessed sacraments to 24/7 A-2 How can we make our Catholic faith more vibrant and hopeful to attract others?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Need to have regular greeters, and etc. to make all more welcomed.
2. Unlock our churches – people are chased out so they can be locked and
ushers can go. (Put in panic bars).
3. Build a “green church” – New Church
4. Quality worship and quality activities…beautiful, prayerful,
welcoming, etc.
5. Mentoring families for new members, baptized families etc. follow-up
to sacraments, RCIA follow up. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #2)
1. Engage within our community as well as Catholic Community
2. Support all worship site activities
3. Include variety of music, especially traditional music
4. Encourage kids to serve
5. Be distinguishable and identifiable
6. More welcoming – pride in faith
7. Welcome wagon for Catholic and socially offer Mass
8. Design to congregation at church
9. Replace statues and improve environment
10. Small group – have cantors at Mass involved and welcome all at Mass, newcomers, say hello. A-3 How do we become more welcoming, more accepting, and more open to ALL?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Make gathering space more accessible to all.
2. Rotating ushers bring in new and more ushers to involve, members of our community.
3. Utilize concept, “Parish Clusters” a need to make smaller faith commitment.
Convocation Solutions: (Priority #3)
1. Set up Ambassador’s Club for new members, family to family, etc. bring people into school and church.
2. Provide brochures, names from/to realtors, welcome basket, Holy cards in church
3. Create incentives (i.e. $50 off tuition to new students)
4. Welcome and greet done by all
5. Create volleyball leagues, social events, catholic leagues
6. Welcome and include Spanish speaking populations
7. Organize breakfast
8. Expand social justice involvement
9. Continue communication of activities
10. Invite parent involvement
A-4 How do we communicate the treasure we have in both school and parish?
Strategic Solutions:
1. E-mail bulletins, mail or post on website.
2. Expand materials and use of website.
3. Covenant/contract of commitment of activities relates to the
sacramental activity.
4. Use of photo, media. (Post new parishioners in emails)
5. Process of introduction of new parishioners at Mass “stand-up”
6. Parish/school communications (ex. Printed items) combine their news
activities more. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #4)
1. Continue good publicity in Messenger and Community – thank you note for previous coverage
2. Place ad in Saturday Religious Page of Messenger
3. Use marquee to promote and communicate upcoming events
4. Utilize organizations (to contact and organize events)
5. Utilize computer and website
6. Create a publicity position A-5 How do we get people to take ownership in our parish and not come and just be a guest?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Get people involved.
2. Invitations to join
3. More fellowship
4. Culture of “welcome” to join groups.
5. Publish group meetings/times “choir meets at…”
6. Rotate greeters/ushers/gift bearers
7. Identify greeters with pins, ribbons, etc.
8. EME wear a cross
9. After leaders get new stewardship lists (from annual sign-up) get
groups to meet, personally invite, challenge group to be welcoming.
10. Age related activities (pot lucks for seniors) (not limited to summer
spirit – adults) (Mardi Gras) Convocation Solutions: (Priority #5)
1. Create more involvement by personal invitations
2. Model Christian behavior
3. become an inviting community
4. Create a comfort zone to get more participation
5. Use services as a gift to church and recognize these gifts
6. Be there when it makes a difference
7. Expand hospital ministry
8. Encourage prayer lines A-6 How do we nurture the seed of faith planted in our youth?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Hire Parish youth leader/or school campus ministry person or
combined position.
2. Better facilities for youth meetings (bean bags, couches, rugs, and etc.)
3. Develop a youth Mass or youth involvement in parish worship.
4. Project Marion and Andrew be implemented. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #6)
1. Expert teachers to model faith
2. Plan student Mass during weekend
3. Offer Mass for Sunday evening geared to what youth want – survey them
4. Encourage and nurture positive features and values
5. Have more youth do ministries
6. Let service come – not a requirement A-7 How do we “activate” Catholic adults – ages 20 – 40?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Continue to support and enhance divorce support group, single parent
group.
2. Schedule and develop social events for the 20-40 year olds such as
volleyball, sledding, or retreats.
3. Use survey of parent/ St. Edmond’s and public as “How can our parish
be more relevant to them”
4. Revitalization and better advertisement of parish groups. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #7)
1. Invite and involve 20-40 year olds to participate
2. Initiate young people into groups with like interests
3. Communicate what parish organizations are available and what they are about.
4. Get feedback as to needs and ways they want to be involved and to make certain there is a response
5. Ask families to encourage service, especially by modeling
PLANNING AREA B: Administration & Finance Challenges:
B-1 How do we maintain the economic and financial viability of the school and parish?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Explore consolidation of worship sites, buildings, and personnel.
2. Develop/promote activities and programs (script) at parish/school levels.
3. Investigate other alternatives for parish giving’s/envelopes.
4. Research different tuition models.
5. Establish a reserve for repairs, buildings, and capital progress. Convocation Solutions:
1. Consolidate financial and administrative service between school and parish
2. Develop GAAP based financial statement for the parish as to coordinate an audit with the school
3. Promote electronic transfers of payment/gifts to school and parish
4. Provide financial statements quarterly from parish
5. Remind parishioners of revenue sources B-2 How do we develop and allocate resources (financial, personnel, and buildings).
Strategic Solutions:
1. Research joint governing committees for all areas. Convocation Solutions:
1. Shared technology, personal and purchasing
2. Combined business office between school and parish
3. Coordinate foundation and development for long term giving (gifts and estates) B-3 How do we attract and welcome new students and parishioners?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Develop a shared process to introduce new families to parish and school.
2. Create a formal Welcoming process for new parishioners.
3. Develop an interactive website for potential students to calculate affordability. Convocation Solutions:
1. Retention of quality teachers by maintaining competitiveness of experienced and advanced teacher through increases salaries
2. Marketing of financial aid availability, affordability
3. utilize website to market school for new students, parishioners by modeling college/city websites
4. Outreach to area schools to promote our school system. We need other students to visit our school
5. Develop outreach for those who fall away, Catholics and non-Catholics by non-traditional Masses (i.e. Spanish Mass, rock Mass)
B-4 How do we collaboratively work to maximize investment returns?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Discuss/hold at least annual meetings between school/parish boards.
2. RFP for master investment plan.
3. Identify tasks/activities that Stewardship and Development can
collaborate.
4. Create a formal process to cultivate Major Gifts.
5. Develop a policy to identify and track donor-restricted funds past and
future.
6. Develop clear and consistent policies for donor restricted and
unrestricted funds.
Convocation Solutions:
1. Analyze physical assets of school and parish without loosing sensitivity to faith and spirituality.
2. Consolidate foundation management to increase income B-5 How do we leverage technology?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Create a joint department that will result in purchasing, personnel
efficiencies.
2. How can we develop an interactive website?
3. Expand the use of students to develop and maintain technology
resources. Convocation Solutions:
1. Utilize co-marketing to promote unified identity between school and parish.
2. Leverage resources of other schools, colleges, and diocese to enhance the technology and communication
3. Research and development of Instructional Information with teacher, students and parish.
4. Leverage/ling with other schools, diocese and entities
B-6 How do we establish a comprehensive communication process that fully
illustrates the benefits of collaboration?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Secure commitment from leadership – Clergy, Principals, faculty, staff, boards and committees.
2. Establish a comprehensive communication process that fully illustrates the benefits of collaboration.
3. Illustrate and consistently celebrate success.
4. Relieve the clergy of administrative duties and get them
more involved with the parishioners and students.
Convocation Solutions:
1. Develop a website
2. Develop marketing concepts such as a DVD
3. Review church bulletin format or layout. Consider basic information for weekly purposes and comprehensive information on a biweekly or monthly basis
4. Combined brochure for school, parish and chamber of commerce PLANNING AREA C: Marketing & Communication Challenges:
C-1 How can we become a unified Catholic community?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Hire a web master to create a joint parish/school website.
2. Identify volunteers with expertise to establish and administer a
website.
3. Eliminate the school vs. parish rivalry.
4. Establish a single site for unified parish and school administrative
location.
5. Combine parish/school finance, development and marketing personnel.
6. How can we better communicate that SE is affordable? Convocation Solutions: (Priority #1)
1. Creation of one governance board over parish and school – with one mission statement
2. First communion – establish a rotating sacramental site for first communion and other sacraments and rotate sites
3. establish more opportunities for fellowship amongst the parishioners – young and old
4. Establish a website to serve parish and school C-2 How can we increase the visibility of the religious in our school?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Encourage the religious to schedule informal interaction with students.
2. Establish a program where the religious (priest and nuns) teach religion
in the school.
3. Create deacon positions to free-up duties and time of priests allowing
them to have greater involvement at schools (more presence). Convocation Solutions: (Priority #2)
1. Establish a program students invite priests (religious) to participate in the classroom
2. Schedule informal meeting, interaction, between parents, teachers and priest
3. Have Spiritual Life, QWT to work with religious for more exposure in school
4. Establish a religious wall of recognition (website) in school and every worship site C-3 How do we better communicate the achievements of our parishioners?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Establish a single marketing director for SE and Holy Trinity.
2. Publish stories and pictures in bulletin and website.
3. Identify successes, establish methods to identify successes or
achievements of parishioners and students.
4. Publish pictures and stories in local newspaper.
5. Invite news media to school/parish events.
6. Create a collaborative recognition program for successes. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #5)
1. Establish a program where by parishioners can notify and identify achievements of students and parishioners for placement in bulletin and website
2. Create a joint marketing team with parish and school
3. Establish a program to notify priests of successes of parishioners and students for announcements at Mass C-4 How can we reach out to Alumni and parishioners for enhanced involvement?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Establish a program to encourage involvement of the entire catholic
community.
2. Creation of informational joint pamphlet out lining school and parish
volunteer opportunity and needs. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #4)
1. Establish a five year annual scheduled class reunions the night before the ball
2. Identify alumni and parishioners with expertise that can be donated to parish and school
3. Establish a honorary program to recognize distinguished parishioners/teachers
4. Recognize SE and parish achievers at the St. Ed’s Ball C-5 How can we better collaborate with other school systems and faith based institutions?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Establish a periodic multi-faith-based festival or services.
2. Establish a program where students and parishioners participate in
other church services and events.
3. Establish a program where students participate in other schools events
and activities. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #6)
1. Establish social, community activities within the community
2. Establish or organize community projects for all faith based institutions and school systems
3. Hold annual faith based service and dinner
4. Go on fact finding trips for other schools and churches to share ideas and invite them to ours
5. Exchange church bulletins with other parishes
6. Inform and distribute new calendar of events to other Fort Dodge Catholic communities and churches C-6 How can we better involve our students in our parish?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Implement a program of student lead or organized Masses.
2. Establish a way to involve student groups in parish functions and
events.
3. Establish student committee to organize and implement increased
involvement in activities of church. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #3)
1. Hire a person to establish a program for student involvement in the parish
2. Invite a person to speak to school or classes of parish opportunities
3. Create a program to have students plan and lead parish Masses on weekends, older students with younger students
4. Encourage family involvement in stewardship PLANNING AREA D: Facilities Challenges:
D-1 How can we provide our Catholic community with efficient useful and safe modern buildings that can meet the current and future needs of our community?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Renovations of existing facilities.
2. Build new facilities.
3. Dispose of unnecessary facilities to facilitate necessary facilities.
4. Purchase of new property.
5. Addition to existing buildings Convocation Solutions: (Priority #1)
1. Create a single site parish by either building new or “adding on” to an existing site
2. Multiple sites but less than current number of eight
3. Sell, lease or rent empty or unneeded buildings
4. Demo buildings, rather then sell
5. Improve handicapped accessibility – elevators
6. Close all facilities and build new
7. Keep all open and renovate
8. Finish previous studies and reports
9. Establish long and short term goals to determine what to retain, dispose of or to construct.
D-2 How to provide facilities that build community and a welcoming environment?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Create a gathering space outside of church it self.
2. Enhance handicap accessibility and bathrooms.
3. Eliminate worship sites to create community/welcoming
4. Incorporate components (stained glass) from existing sites into new
facilities.
Convocation Solutions: (Priority #2)
1. Provide more things to do at the sites
a. Increase gathering space
b. Child care
c. Faith festivals
d. Meeting rooms
2. Unlock doors at worship sites, add “panic bar” instead of dead bolts
3. Single site parish
4. Budget additional resources to improve the maintained, cleaning of worship sites and school, modernize restrooms and public spaces
5. A single building with a large fellowship hall, to include meeting rooms or multi-function rooms
6. Maintain existing center
7. Build church at St. Edmonds
8. Incorporate design elements from existing churches into new church D-3 How do we acquire and dispose of properties?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Obtain Diocese guidelines and/or permission.
2. Advertise for sale.
3. Seek alternative uses.
4. Demographics
5. Purchase neighboring properties.
6. Land swaps Convocation Solutions: (Priority #5)
1. Seek buyers with similar vision, values or mission
2. Budget for purchase of new land or buildings
3. Demolish buildings
4. Gifts of land and parish/school
5. Land swaps
6. Develop property for alternative use
7. Explore rental opportunities of existing buildings
8. Work with local/regional governments to facilitate development of parish buildings. D-4 How do we leverage the strengths of the school with the strengths of the parish with existing new facilities?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Combine administration offices.
2. Collaborate
3. One Catholic campus
4. Collaborative infrastructure Phone system, parking, maintenance, grounds keeping
5. Ministry (combine)
Convocation Solutions: (Priority #6)
1. Collaboration between school and parish on usage of facilities
2. School and church on same site
3. Create one administrative building
4. Existing facilities provide easy access to local citizens
5. New facility will share personnel
6. New provides more interaction with priests and nuns.
7. Build a worship site at the St. Edmond campus D-5 How we enhance the learning environment of the school system?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Up-grade facility (infrastructure - heat, electricity, technology)
2. Asbestos abatement Convocation Solutions: (Priority #3)
1. Upgrade/update school infrastructure – HVAC, windows, electrical system, furniture, and desks
2. Listen to the teachers needs
3. Improve auditorium and bathrooms
4. Improve technology
5. Additional elementary classrooms
D-6 How do we build/create a Master Plan to evaluate the future use of existing and future facilities?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Review existing parish Master Plan.
2. Review existing Parish and Long Range plan school.
3. Create a new Long Range plan jointly.
Convocation Solutions: (Priority #4)
1. One site or catholic campus
2. Explore possible designs to look at different options
3. Cost analysis of renovations and building new or adding on to worship sites
4. Understand / look at demographics of population and number of priests
5. Review Parish and School LRP
6. Implement LRCP
PLANNING AREA E: Spiritual Life Challenges:
E-1 How can we utilize our strengths within/across the church/school system?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Coordinate calendars for church, SE and Senior high – too many things
happening on the same night.
2. Create more opportunities for parish participation.
3. Structure activities at SE system so youth outside the system feel
comfortable and invited. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #1 tie)
1. Offer parish-wide adult/youth service project opportunities locally and globally.
2. Develop and cultivate personal invitations
3. Create a youth ministry position for the parish
4. Create a paid Director of Religious Education position for the school
5. Invite retired priests to come to school to interact with the students
6. Encourage those with prior knowledge/experience to become involved with the parish and school activities.
7. Promote St. Ed’s and educate about the opportunity for financial assistance for those who think they can’t afford it. E-2 How can we engage children and teens in spirituality and faith?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Improve music ministry/liturgy by inviting participation.
2. Create opportunities for more children’s liturgy.
3. Direction of religious education for church and school.
4. Create a youth minister position. Convocation Solutions: (Priority 6)
1. Reinstate the religious education (CCD) program
2. Create a Director of Religious Education
3. Create a paid youth ministry position to the parish
4. Utilize older students to mentor/educate younger students and share their faith.
5. Provide interactive activities for youth.
6. Reach out to the Hispanic Community to incorporate them more into the church community. E-3 How do we teach the true traditions and beliefs in our ever changing world?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Conduct small workshops or through homilies and/or bulletin for our
traditions or beliefs.
2. Define ourselves in a positive and inviting manner.
3. Implement true stewardship tithing at Parish and individual levels. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #5)
1. Provide periodic church teaching series (“Catholic Update”) through homilies or small groups.
2. Host liturgical workshops
3. Encourage priests to teach church traditions/beliefs from the pulpit
4. Utilize lay people to educate others about church traditions E-4 How can we increase people’s personal growth/relationship with God and our community?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Provide religious material for homes.
2. Offer more retreats/missions or information on other retreats/mission.
3. Create more social opportunities between worship sites.
4. Encourage participation in all the parish has to offer. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #1 tie)
1. Increase small group faith sharing and prayer (liturgical study group)
2. Create more social opportunities between worship sites
3. Promote weekly Mass attendance
4. Paid Director of Religious Education, youth minister to provide ore consistency
5. Create other retreat/fellowship opportunities
6. Share testimonials/share power of prayer in their life E-5 How do we get our local Catholic community involved/engaged in their faith?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Offer faith sharing opportunities for any age.
2. Create a parish website and other informational tools.
3. Make religious leaders more available or visible. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #3)
1. Provide Youth Mass – youth will plan and participate in the liturgy
2. Provide more opportunity for priest involvement with our youth.
3. Hire Director of Religious Education and youth ministry position
4. Personally invite people to activities
5. Get kids more involved in Mass by singing
6. Provide verbal announcements of up coming activities E-6 How do we make our Catholic faith a priority?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Create a God orientation
2. Service excellence – need to engage individuals spiritually, enhance
liturgy. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #4)
1. Utilize our time, talent and treasures
2. Call each other back to our faith so we are held accountable for our actions or lack of participation.
3. Make a personal commitment to prayer.
4. Encourage everyone to pray
5. Create and implement a prayer to be said at the beginning of all Masses about making our faith a priority.
6. Educate and encourage religious vocations on a more regular basis
7. Pray for vocation
PLANNING AREA F: Personnel Challenges:
F-1 How can we increase the spirit of trust and understanding between the personnel and boards of the parish and school?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Work on small projects together to build relationships.
2. Organized an annual in-service/meeting/retreat for
parish/school/personnel and boards.
3. Encourage job shadowing between parish and school.
4. Encourage frequent communications.
5. Collaborate on annual planning, projects and events.
6. Celebrate success. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #2)
1. Mediations – independent to resolve conflicts objectively between boards of church and schools
2. Methods of choosing process for board members changed or analyzed, to elect by vote for boards or to select by expertise but must be willing to serve as main motivation
3. Term limits by voting on continuation by vote after first 3 years for second and third term
4. Shadowing program at both the parish and St. Edmonds publish ministries in the bulletins and web links in summary from both board meetings
5. In-service between two boards (school and parish) team building
6. Shared space for working together school and parishes
7. Additional members that cross-over from boards to board to increase common goals
8. One board at some point in time to eliminate duplication F-2 How can we utilize personnel to provide expertise and efficiency that benefits both the parish and school?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Assess duplications of needs.
2. Assess of untapped talents with current personnel.
3. Encourage the sharing of expertise in all areas.
Convocation Solutions: (Priority #3)
1. Job descriptions/mentoring program
2. Service and vocations with parish members
3. Term efforts and same goals in same locations
F-3 How do we attract and retain quality personnel?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Work with key community groups to attract personnel. (I.e. young
professional)
2. Offer a competitive compensation package.
3. Survey – All personnel why have you stayed?
4. Exit survey for personnel.
5. Establish a formal process for ongoing professional development.
6. Celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and special occasions.
Convocation Solutions: (Priority #1)
1. What do we do to offer family friendly atmosphere and environment
2. Advertise positions
3. Second income families are best opportunities because easier to retain. May need to consider incentive packages to families with kids.
4. Evaluations as exit interviews and QIT feedback to boards and administration
5. Teacher mentoring for new hires like to on elementary throughout the entire system
6. Recruiters and job fairs at UNI, IA, catholic colleges and locally at BV
7. Pay and salary for new teachers and existing
a. Rent and housing options
b. Sign on bonus
c. Rewards for years of service
d. Loan forgiveness in IA
e. Incentive packages to come to IA
8. Administration and principal salaries
a. Student/family incentive by children in the system
b. Young or non-traditional teachers incentive packages F-4 How can we bring together the two volunteer bases, add to them to fill the voids and grow / or move forward?
Strategic Solutions:
1. Share list of volunteers/recognition of them.
2. Research feasibility study of a volunteer coordinator of all volunteers or
stewardship person.
3. Ask the people what they are passionate about.
4. Identify the volunteer activities.
5. Utilize Strength Finder tool to identify parishioner talents/strengths to
appropriately match talent with parish/school needs – “Gifts and
Talents” Survey. Convocation Solutions: (Priority #4)
1. How to openly invite to help and communicate for job and roles that need service
2. Need to be sure they are contacted with a phone call or letter if they volunteer to acknowledge the jobs.
3. Middle/high school volunteers to assist at teaching
4. Communication and open invitations
PLANNING AREA G: Stewardship &Development Challenges:
G-1 How do we create an ongoing process to meaningfully invite and involve people? Convocation Solutions: (Priority #1)
1. Invite people to participate and continually follow-up
2. Hospitality functions
3. Buy in from top to bottom
4. Centralize efforts towards one goal
5. Parishioners give stewardship witnesses at church
6. Adopt a theme G-2 How can we increase Stewardship? Convocation Solutions: (Priority #2)
1. Develop a large range plan toward development and stewardship – time, talent, and treasure with strategic plan each year.
2. Establish one development office
3. Encourage younger children to give and become active in parish
4. Online – internet capabilities of being involved in stewardship
5. Tithing needs to be part of parish G-3 How do we effectively establish an enrollment management system? Convocation Solutions: (Priority # )
1. Implement marketing program through the church and school and parent network – emphasize the value of a Catholic education and tuition assistance.
2. Offer transportation to students in outlying areas G-4 How do we consistently improve the annual appeal? Convocation Solutions: (Priority #)
1. Inform people where the money is being used and what the future needs are.
2. Sitting down face to face and to talk about stewardship and encourage feedback.
G-5 How do we get unification of Stewardship and Development? Convocation Solutions: (Priority #3)
1. Communicate between parish and school to have a collaborative plan.
2. Establish and designate one appeal where the money will go. G-6 How can we continue Planned Giving? Convocation Solutions: (Priority #4)
1. Educational seminars on planned giving
a. Seminar
b. Newsletters
c. Bulletins
2. Combined with personal visits from church and school G-7 How do we find a way to empower the Alumni involvement? Convocation Solutions: (Priority #)
1. Class reunions incorporate development pitch
2. Special donation list sent to alumni
3. Reach alumni over internet G-8 How do we create an honest and responsive acknowledgement and recognition process? Convocation Solutions: (Priority #)
1. Continue to thank people over and over Strategic Solutions:
1. Welcoming into church and school and increasing involvement opportunities.
2. A firm plan of unification of church and school.
3. A collaboration of representatives of parish and school.
4. Coordinate a Marketing plan for parish and school.
5. Develop a long range plan for integrated Development and Stewardship.
• Time, talent, and treasure
6. Get the religious involved in Stewardship and Development.
7. Recognize those who give their time, talent and treasure
8. Establish one Development office with one Development Director.
9. Creation of a Catholic campus (school, church, retirement home)
10. To invite people to meaningful participate.
11. Marketing and education regarding Planned Giving.
12. Establish a Stewardship and Development Steering Committee
13. Communication and coordination between school and parish in recruitment of new potential students and families. (Joint effort to meet new families)
14. Student group (activities participating in various Masses (I.e. theme Mass with a volleyball team, or a musical cast doing readings or serving communion)
15. Organized effort to engage students at the transition stage of 4th to 5th grade.
16. Create an upgraded stat of the art website, keep it updated, and allow for video streaming for sports and extracurricular activities. (Both school and development office)
17. Better use of “online” donations/stewardship (via web page).
18. Start a preschool program at the age of 3, to get future students at an earlier age.
19. Actively solicit and recruit members from out lying areas.
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