Passionate Steward - 10th Anniversary Edition

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Chapter XIV
Special Financial and
Capital Campaigns
Inevitably the time comes when any diocese/presbytery,
parish, or faith-based charity must raise an extraordinary
amount of money in a time-limited manner. When this is done to
establish or perpetuate a given ministry or program, we generally
call such efforts “Special Financial Campaigns”—“special”
because they are administered to raise funds over and above the
regular collection upon which the Church relies, and “financial”
because the traditional goal of such campaigns has been to raise
money—and generally only money.
“Capital Campaigns” differ only in that the financial proceeds
are generally restricted to capital needs, as for example, the
construction of a parish school, church, or hall; or the maintenance
and improvement of existing physical structures. Like Special
Financial Campaigns, Capital Campaigns have usually been
focused solely on money. This is problematic for the Church,
however, since—as has been made clear—money should never be
the Church’s only goal, considering that we can engage in real and