All posts by Susie Boone

Session 24 | 1:00 pm | Becoming a More Vibrant Parish through Strategic Planning

ICSC Mon PM 19

Session 24
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Sheraton Ballroom III
Becoming a More Vibrant Parish through Strategic Planning

Speaker: Dan Ebener, Ph.D. Professor of Leadership
St. Ambrose University
Davenport, Iowa

Moderator: Deacon Bob Beehner
Permanent Deacon
Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin

This session will showcase an eight-step pastoral planning process that the presenter has used to conduct strategic planning for hundreds of organizations, including Catholic parishes, schools, dioceses, religious communities and for ICSC. The process is an engaging, interactive style that becomes fertile ground for growing new leaders and surfacing new ideas.

Dan Ebener, Ph.D.

Dr. Dan Ebener is an author, teacher and speaker and has been developing leaders for churches, businesses and community organizations since 1976. He teaches strategic planning, team-building and leadership skills for the Master of Organizational Leadership program at St. Ambrose University. He is the author of four books, two on servant leadership, one on strategic planning and his latest is a textbook on leadership for Catholic seminaries. Besides teaching full-time at St. Ambrose University, he is director of parish planning for the Diocese of Davenport.

Dr. Ebener has provided consultation to more than 100 organizations. Drawing from experience in the classroom and his consulting practice, he has spoken to audiences in 43 states and 20 countries. In his writing and speaking, he draws regularly from his international travels to 69 countries. Dr. Ebener lives in Davenport, Iowa and has been married since 1977 to DeAnn. They have two sons.

Session 34 | 3:00 pm | Strengthening Parish Engagement through Nonprofit Leadership Practices

ICSC Mon PM 19

Session 34
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Sheraton Ballroom III
Strengthening Parish Engagement through Nonprofit Leadership Practices

Speaker: Ana-Cristina Gonzalez
Chief Operations Officer
Saint William Catholic Church
Round Rock, Texas

Moderator: Linda Maccarone
Director of Parish Mission
St. Mary Catholic Church
Royal Oak, Michigan

The Church today operates very differently than the times of one pastor and one administrator. Saint William in Round Rock employs more than 50 people on 30 acres of property with over 7,000 families. To manage all aspects of parish life, they adopted nonprofit leadership practices and structure that transformed the life of the parish and its staff. Come and learn from the COO on how this all came to be: the good, the great, and the heartache.

Ms. Ana-Cristina González

Ana-Cristina Gonzalez is chief operations officer for Saint William Catholic Church in Round Rock, Texas. With over 7,000 registered families, 30 acres of property, 50 plus staff, she oversees the day-to-day operations of the largest parish in the Diocese of Austin.

In 2015, with a new building under construction, Saint William underwent a major structural change. The pastor decided to move towards a chief operations officer model that would oversee the daily operations of the parish. Because of the size of the parish, the traditional parish model was not sufficient for the level of work taking place. Ms. Gonzalez was the first woman, and first Hispanic, chief operations officer in the Diocese of Austin.

Ms. Gonzalez holds a bachelor’s degree in human development and family sciences from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a master’s degree in communication and leadership studies from Gonzaga University.

Session 23 | 1:00 pm | Millennials in the Apostolic Age

ICSC Mon PM 19

Session 23
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Chicago Ballroom VIII
Millennials in the Apostolic Age

Speaker: Heidi D. Radabaugh
Young Adult Director
St. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic Church
Zionsville, Indiana

Moderator: Jennifer Clark
Director of Parish Life & Faith Formation
St. Hedwig Catholic Church
Los Alamitos, California

By age 23, nearly 80% of cradle Catholics have fallen away from the faith. The pagan shrines during Christ’s time have been replaced with self-help mindfulness, organic lifestyles, and relativism. Why do millennial and Gen Z generations behave this way? How can your parish and you personally disciple generations who seem unreachable and uninterested? What gives us hope in times of despair? This session will help you begin the dialogue and will offer practical application for your parish.

Ms. Heidi D. Radabaugh

Heidi Radabaugh originally comes from St. Louis, Missouri. A cradle Catholic and the youngest of five, she attended Franciscan University of Steubenville where she earned a bachelor’s degree in theology and psychology. She earned a master’s degree in theology from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. Throughout the past 11 years, she has discipled in high school classrooms, parish youth and young adult ministries, bars, coffee shops, and, most importantly, her home. Ms. Radabaugh lives with her 17-month-old son and husband, Marc, in Indianapolis, Indiana and attempts daily to bring Christ and his Church to their millennial neighborhood.

Session 22 | 1:00 pm | Stewardship of Treasure: It’s About The Mission

ICSC Mon PM 19

Session 22
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Chicago Ballroom IX
Stewardship of Treasure: It’s About The Mission

Speaker: Mila Glodava
Parish Stewardship Coordinator
Denver, Colorado

Moderator: Rock Beharry
ICSC Conference Team
New York, New York

Drawing from the presenter’s nearly 30 years of experience in two different parishes, this session offers practical insights into the stewardship of treasure. Based on a fundamental principle that “it is about the mission,” you will see how methods that can be used for large parishes can also be adapted to small parishes in order to invite parishioners to prayerfully reflect on their own response to the Lord through their commitment of treasure.

 

Ms. Mila Glodava

Mila Glodava has just retired from active parish ministry to continue her stewardship missionary work in the Philippines as well as her charitable foundation work. This year, she coordinated the first Asian Pacific stewardship conference conducted in the Philippines co-sponsored by ICSC and Socio-Pastoral Institute.

Former director of stewardship and administration at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Denver, Colorado, Ms. Glodava had been its director of communications and stewardship since 2014. She held the latter position for more than 25 years at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Centennial, Colorado. Under her leadership, along with the pastor, Father Andrew Kemberling, St. Thomas More received numerous ICSC stewardship awards including the 2007 Archbishop Thomas Murphy Award.

Since 2002, Ms. Glodava, who is a native of the Philippines, had been working with Father Kemberling and Socio-Pastoral Institute, an agency of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, to introduce stewardship. In 2009, she and Father Kemberling co-authored a book entitled, Making Stewardship a Way of Life: A Complete Guide for Catholic Parishes, published by Our Sunday Visitor.

Ms. Glodava earned a bachelor’s degree in education from St. Paul University Manila in 1969, and in 2015, at 70 years of age, she earned a master’s degree in theology from Augustine Institute in Denver. Before coming to the United States in 1972, Ms. Glodava taught English in a Catholic high school in Quezon, Philippines. She and her husband, Mark, a former Peace Corps volunteer, have two children and four grandchildren.

Session 21 | 1:00 pm | Missionary Families: How Stewardship Helps Busy Families Evangelize

ICSC Mon PM 19

Session 21
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Chicago Ballroom X
Missionary Families: How Stewardship Helps Busy Families Evangelize

Speaker: Kathleen Niebrugge
Speech/Language Pathologist, Home Educator
St. Louis, Missouri

Speaker: Brian Niebrugge
Executive Director, Stewardship and the Annual Catholic Appeal
Archdiocese of St. Louis, Missouri

Moderator: Dan Conway
Senior Vice President, Pastoral Leadership
GP Catholic Services
Louisville, Kentucky

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world” declared St. John Paul II. No human relationship so closely resembles the love of the Trinity as the family. The world needs to witness the warmth of this love, and our Catholic families can provide that witness if they know they have been called. Stewardship is a way of life, and it presents families with a roadmap to well-formed children who can witness to the love of God as they take their place in the world. Come to hear more about how the stewardship of everyday life helps families to evangelize the world.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Brian Niebrugge

Kathleen and Brian Niebrugge will have been married for 21 years the day after this year’s ICSC conference ends. They and their six children belong to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Parish in St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. Niebrugge is a licensed speech/language pathologist who has given the most recent years of her career to educating the couple’s children at home. She runs a monthly girls club where girls learn various skills and receive formation in human and religious virtues. Kathleen holds a master’s degree in speech and language pathology from Fontbonne University.

Mr. Niebrugge has worked for the Archdiocese of St. Louis since 2001, serving as executive director of stewardship and the Annual Catholic Appeal since 2010. He serves as a basketball coach, a baseball coach, and leads a men’s study group. He speaks to groups of all kinds on matters of family, fatherhood, and holiness in ordinary life. He also serves as chair of the board of directors of the International Catholic Stewardship Council.

Session 18 | 10:30 am | Protecting Your Foundation and its Assets

ICSC Mon AM 19

Session 18
10:30 am – 11:30 am

Huron
Protecting Your Foundation and its Assets

Speaker: Phillip Kunkel, Attorney
Principal
Gray Plant Mooty Law Firm
St. Cloud, Minnesota

Moderator: Mark Henry, J.D.
Secretary for Stewardship & Development
President, East Texas Catholic Foundation
Tyler, Texas

As the number of Catholic foundations continues to grow, so is the need for constant vigilance over its autonomy and asset protection. Foundation officers recognize that donors often prefer to give to separate foundations, administered independent of the Church and, conceivably, protected from any church-related litigation. This presentation, by an attorney with extensive experience with Catholic organizations, will offer recommendations and best practices for foundation executives who are vigilant to potential challenges to a foundation’s autonomy, its interaction with a diocese, conflicts of interest and the vulnerability of unrestricted foundation assets.

Mr. Phillip L. Kunkel

Phillip Kunkel is a Minnesota attorney who concentrates his practice in bankruptcy, receiverships, commercial financing and agricultural and agribusiness financing. He is a frequent lecturer on, among many subject areas, bankruptcy, commercial financing, and receiverships. He has served as a receiver in several receivership cases in Minnesota and has been asked to serve as a Chapter 11 trustee in several unique bankruptcy cases. Mr. Kunkel advises a number of Catholic organizations and other nonprofit clients in his practice area as well as the areas of corporate governance, independence and potential avoidable transfer matters.

Mr. Kunkel is licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court and is listed as a “Minnesota Super Lawyer” by Thomson/Reuters. He is also listed with distinction in the publications, “Minnesota’s Best Lawyers,” by Minnesota Monthly and The Best Lawyers in America by Best Lawyers.

Mr. Kunkel graduated with honors from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota and earned his law degree with honors from the University of Minnesota Law School. He coauthored Business Workouts Manual, West Publishing, 2019; and he is the coeditor of Debtor-Creditor Handbook, Minnesota CLE, 2003-2019.

The expanse of Mr. Kunkel’s notable legal work includes having represented senior lenders in 25 renewable energy projects totaling more than $1.75 billion in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois.

Session 17 | 10:30 am | Keeping Donors Front and Center During Crises

ICSC Mon AM 19

Session 17
10:30 am – 11:30 am

Erie
Keeping Donors Front and Center During Crises

Speaker: Ivan Arocho
Executive Director of Development
Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey

Speaker: Koren Ruiz
Associate
GP Catholic Services
Portland, Oregon

Speaker: Elizabeth Zeigler
President and CEO
GP Catholic Services, a division of Graham-Pelton Consulting
Washington, DC

Moderator: Kimberly Bruining
Manager of Development and Stewardship
Diocese of Joliet, Illinois

Donor engagement is more crucial than ever, yet might be neglected during crisis events. Due to shifting priorities and diminishing resources, development offices may not be responding adequately to donor concerns and motivations. Learn how one archdiocese determined the appropriate resources and infrastructure required to meet donor needs and stewardship goals, reestablished their commitment to their supporters and articulated their efforts to the wider community.

Mr. Ivan Arocho

Iván Arocho Esteves was born in Puerto Rico and moved to New Jersey in 1980. He worked as a Catholic missionary in various cities in the United States and abroad. He graduated from Seton Hall University with a bachelor’s degree in education in 2001, followed by a master’s degree in systematic theology in 2006. He joined the faculty of Seton Hall Prep in 2005.

Mr. Arocho became director of The Griffin Bridges Program in 2008 – a comprehensive scholarship program that provides academically talented, financially limited inner-city students with the opportunity to attend Seton Hall Prep. Under his leadership, students not only achieved great success in academics and college placement, but the program also saw substantial growth in its endowment.

In 2014, Mr. Arocho became the New Jersey development director for Saint Paul’s Outreach (SPO), a ministry serving campuses across the United States. In this capacity, he worked to establish relationships and generate funds to support the growth and expansion of SPO in New Jersey. In 2017, Mr. Arocho joined the development team at the Archdiocese of Newark, first as director of major gifts, then in 2019, as executive director of development. He resides with his wife and five daughters in West Orange, New Jersey.

Mr. Koren Ruiz

Koren Ruiz, an associate with GP Catholic Services, has been involved in ministry for more than 20 years, mostly with youth, music, and stewardship. For the last decade, Koren has focused on English and Spanish-language communities in the Catholic Church. He has served parishes in his own Archdiocese of Portland Oregon, the Archdiocese of Seattle, and the Dioceses of Orange and Yakima, among others.

Mr. Ruiz is a choir director at Ascension Catholic Church in Portland, as well as a published composer, artist, and workshop presenter with Oregon Catholic Press. He holds bachelor’s degrees in both business administration and organizational psychology from Western Oregon University, and earned an MBA from the University of Portland.

Ms. Elizabeth Zeigler

Elizabeth Zeigler is president and chief executive officer of Graham-Pelton Consulting, of which GP Catholic Services is a division, and the first woman to lead a global fundraising consulting firm. She joined the firm in a part-time role in 2001 and quickly rose through the ranks. She was named chief executive officer in 2017, succeeding company founder Craig Leach. Ms. Zeigler has provided executive management and counsel to Catholic institutions including: Archdiocese of Newark, Caldwell University, Cardinal Hayes High School, Diocese of Greensburg, Diocese of Paterson, Marist College, Marymount School of New York, Marymount University, St. Benedict’s Preparatory School, Saint Peter’s University, St. Francis College and St. Rose High School. She previously served as director of individual giving at Fordham University for four undergraduate colleges and five graduate schools during a $150 million fundraising campaign. She led a team that nearly doubled Fordham’s alumni participation rate while securing major gifts for the campaign. She also served on the development team at Muhlenberg College early in her career. An English and business graduate of Muhlenberg College, Ms. Zeigler also holds a master’s degree in adult education and human resource development from Fordham University and completed the Leading Professional Service Firms Executive Education program at Harvard Business School.

Session 16 | 10:30 am | Stewardship and Development in “Mission” Dioceses

ICSC Mon AM 19

Session 16
10:30 am – 11:30 am

Superior
Stewardship and Development in “Mission” Dioceses

Facilitator: Robert Anderson
Assistant Vice President of Mission
Catholic Extension
Chicago, Illinois

Speaker: Kathryn Eardley
Digital Communications Coordinator
Catholic Extension
Chicago, Illinois

Speaker: Andy Kucich
Development Coordinator
Catholic Extension
Chicago, Illinois

Speaker: Madeleine Marchaterre
Senior Manager of Development
Catholic Extension
Chicago, Illinois

Catholic Extension, based here in Chicago, has worked with America’s mission dioceses for over 110 years. This year, hear from Catholic Extension staff about lessons, tips, and recommendations for how to be successful in your stewardship and development efforts, tailored to a mission diocese environment.

Mr. Robert Anderson

Rob Anderson is the senior director of mission at Catholic Extension, a national nonprofit organization focused on supporting the growth of the Catholic Church in mission dioceses in the United States. Mr. Anderson works with Catholic Extension’s 85-plus mission dioceses to coordinate over $20 million in financial assistance provided annually to areas of each diocese’s greatest needs. He also manages the Seminarian Endowment Challenge, which has created over $9 million in long-term seminarian education endowments over the last four years, as well as leading initiatives for Catholic school leadership, prospect research, and Catholic Extension’s annual Lumen Christi Award. Mr. Anderson previously worked in development at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles (LMU) for 11 years. While at LMU, he raised over $4 million in total funding for LMU athletics, receiving three CASE VII awards for excellence in educational fundraising, and managed the university’s leadership donor programs’ annual giving team. He holds both a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from LMU.

Ms. Kathryn Eardley

Kathryn Eardley is the digital communications coordinator for Catholic Extension, where she has enjoyed creating content for social media, the website, and email communications since 2015. For the last three years, she has been sharing the story of Catholic Extension with new digital audiences through video, infographics, photos and written blog posts. Her work has also been published in Extension Magazine.

After graduating from Indiana University in 2009 with a degree in education, Ms. Eardley began her career as an art teacher in the Archdiocese of Chicago and Chicago public schools. In 2013 she left the classroom to study communications. She earned her graduate degree in journalism from DePaul University in Chicago in 2015. After spending a decade in the Windy City, she now lives and works remotely in Grand Rapids, Michigan with her husband, Dan, two-year-old son and six-month-old daughter.

Andy Kucich

Andy was born and raised in the city of Chicago. He pursued his passions at Indiana University, majoring in Healthcare Management and Policy. Following his collegiate career, he took a job as a salesperson for a medical device company. After a year and a half, he decided to change careers and joined Catholic Extension in 2017.

Starting as a development associate on the annual giving team, Andy became well versed in all aspects of fundraising at the annual giving level. Working with the direct mail, events, and digital marketing team helped him rebuild the mid-level giving program that he manages.

After a year working on the annual giving team, the mid-level group was transitioned to the major giving team. This move allowed Andy to begin interacting with donors in person and start developing meaningful relationships. With three years of experience in fundraising, he continues to develop mid-level giving at Catholic Extension focusing on identifying the next group of sustaining donors.

Ms. Madeleine Marchaterre

Madeleine Marchaterre has worked in higher education and nonprofi t development since 1999. She is senior manager of development at Catholic Extension where she supports the major gift team in the areas of research, data integrity, and prospect management. She previously worked at North Park University as research manager and at the University of Illinois Foundation as assistant director of prospect management. At Catholic Extension, she also leads the Prospect Research Initiative which trains participants in research skills and best practices surrounding wealth screenings to increase donor engagement.

Session 33 | 3:00 pm | Move on Down the Road – How to Move your Parish from Maintenance to Mission

ICSC Mon PM 19

Session 33
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Chicago Ballroom VIII
Move on Down the Road – How to Move your Parish from Maintenance to Mission

Speaker: Barbara Vite
Director of Parish Stewardship
Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Moderator: Schuyler Kleinpeter
Stewardship and Advancement Director
St. Pius X Catholic Church
Lafayette, Louisiana

Facing declining Mass attendance, fewer and fewer volunteers and dwindling offertory collections, many parishes get excited about simply maintaining the status quo. Focusing only on keeping our heads above water today is a recipe for sure decline tomorrow. This session will offer a roadmap of practical steps grounded in intentional discipleship and informed by stewardship best practices designed to reinvigorate your parish community.

Ms. Barbara Vite

As parish stewardship director for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee since 2007, Barbara Vite assists parish leadership groups in 197 parishes in their efforts to educate and inspire their communities about the concept of true stewardship. She works with pastoral councils, finance councils and stewardship commissions to develop plans and create resources to build spiritually vibrant, therefore financially secure, parishes.

Ms. Vite entered church ministry after a long career in public relations and marketing. Several of her feature articles were published in domestic and international trade journals and she has scripted award winning public service announcements.

In 2001, she joined the staff of St. Mary Parish in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin as director of parish stewardship and school development. In 2006, she spearheaded the parish Faith First stewardship initiative, which resulted in double-digit increases in volunteer participation and financial support. St. Mary Parish was recognized at the 2007 ICSC conference for this effort

Session 32 | 3:00 pm | Engaging the Community Beyond Sunday

ICSC Mon PM 19

Session 32
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Chicago Ballroom IX
Engaging the Community Beyond Sunday

Speaker: Paul Goldsworthy
Sales Engineer
ACS Technologies/Parish Data System
Peoria, Arizona

Moderator: Rock Beharry
ICSC Conference Team
New York, New York

An engaged community is a strong community. This session will focus on ways to reach your parishioners outside of the 60 minutes they spend at Mass on Sunday. Learn how to enable a stronger community, what challenges you might face, and how to overcome them.

Mr. Paul Goldsworthy

Paul Goldsworthy has been working professionally with churches since 1988. He began consulting in Florida and was helping churches integrate technology with their ministries. In 1994 he joined the team at Parish Data System (PDS) in Phoenix, Arizona. Over the years he has engaged in technical support, training, documentation, programming, project management, and product management. In 2004 ACS Technologies purchased PDS. He is currently a sales engineer for Realm. He lives in Peoria, Arizona with his wife, Cheryl.