Funding Workshops for Religious
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This 5-day workshop introduces participants to major ways of finding support for their members and their works among the poor. It combines theory and the fruit of experience with hands-on practice. Participants learn how to develop systems for permanent support, and are given basic resource materials. By the end of the workshop they produce the basic materials needed to apply for support from funding agencies. The workshop is intended for those who direct educational or medical programs, orphanages, etc., and also for those in leadership: bursars, council members, and others who are concerned with community finance.
Participants
at Rome workshop were from Canada, Hungary, Zambia, Slovakia,
Australia, Germany, Holland, Ireland, the United States of America,
India, and the Philippines.
Topics covered include:
- Ways to achieve financial stability;
- How sisters have supported themselves throughout history;
- Special events; friend-raising; gifts-in-kind; publicity; local support;
- Collaboration with local, national and international organizations;
- Finding computer technology; how the Internet can help;
- Finding funding sources for special projects;
- Preparing applications for funding agencies;
- Budgets, financial reports and fiscal responsibility;
- Evaluating the effectiveness of a project.
Presenter
Sister Mary Ewens, 0.P., has studied sisters' ways of supporting
themselves for 30 years. As Director of the Conrad N. Hilton
Fund for Sisters, she handled over 1,000 projects of sisters
working among the poor all over the world. In this workshop,
she shares what she has learned in her many years of experience
with, and research on, sisters' finances.
Previous Workshop Sponsors
- The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome, Italy
- CONFREGUA (Conference of Religious of Guatemala), Guatemala City, Guatemala
- La Comision de Institutos Colombianos (Organization of sisters' communities founded in Colombia), Bogotá, Colombia
- FERDOC (Federation of Dominican Sisters of Colombia), Bogotá, Colombia
- CRC (Conferencia de Religiosos de Colombia), Bogotá, Colombia
- CODAL (Conference of Dominicans of Latin America), Rosario Argentina
Further
Information
For further information, or to arrange for a workshop, contact:
Sister Mary Ewens, OP
ewensop@yahoo.ie
Sister Mary has a full-time ministry, and cannot respond to
requests for grant research.
Comments
from past participants
"You gave us a volcano of ideas."
"Providence sent you to us."
"If only we'd learned this 20 years ago. We saw other projects
moving ahead, while ours
stagnated. Now we know why."
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ministry of the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters
585 County Road Z
Sinsinawa, WI, 53824-9701, USA.