Stewardship
Plan for 2008
| Development
of resources for communities |
|
$6000
|
| Annual
contribution to sustaining the Marianist Social Justice Collaborative
(MSJC) |
|
$6000
|
| Annual
contribution to sustaining the International Organization of MLC |
|
$6000
|
| Costs
associated with participation in the Marianist Family Council of North
America and other offical Marianist Famly meetings |
|
$3000
|
| Annual
leadership development and networking of area representatives and representatives
to MSJC Board |
|
$4000
|
|
Seed money for
Continental Assembly and local area projects
|
|
$2000
|
| Annual
meeting of MLNNA Leadership Team |
|
$3000
|
| E-news,
web site, mailings, office support and secretarial services |
|
$3000
|
|
TOTAL
|
|
$33,000
|
Letter
from last Annual Appeal (Oct - Dec, 2007)
Dear Marianist
Lay Communities, lay Marianists, and Friends,
As
members of the global Marianist Family, Marianist Lay Communities (MLCs)
and lay Marianists in the United States and Canada are looked to for leadership and participation
in that Family. When you or your MLC, choose to donate to the MLNNA, you
show explicit support for sustaining lay Marianists and
MLCs worldwide and for furthering their work for social justice and
for lay formation. Please consider making a generous donation to the Marianist
Lay Network of North America (MLNNA), either as an individual or as a community,
so that all of us together can continue to build the Marianist Family globally
as well as locally.
We
ask that you and your community prayerfully reflect on helping to sustain
a continental network of MLCs and individuals that are involved, each in their own
way, with building the world and the Church into the best possible likeness
of God’s reign. If you or your community chooses to make a donation, please
know that by doing so, you support your own representative Marianist Lay
Network in making the following monetary commitments:
- Development of resources for use by local communities
- Annual contribution to sustaining the Marianist
Social Justice Collaborative (MSJC)
- Annual contribution to sustaining the International
Organization of Marianist Lay Communities
- Annual costs associated with participation in the
Marianist Family Council of North America and other official Family meetings
- Annual development and networking meetings of area
representatives and representatives to the MSJC board
- Seed money for the Continental Assembly and local
area projects
- Annual meeting of MLNNA Leadership Team
- Communication through mailings, E-news, and office support and secretarial services.
As
you can see, these budget items are basic, clear expenditures that enable
lay Marianists to contribute to the larger Marianist Family as
well as carry out their own missions. Your MLC’s
donation of 1(one) hours wage per person in the community will assist us
in providing an ongoing presence in the Marianist Family. Please consider pledging to be a sustaining
member or a sustaining community for the Marianist Lay Network by providing
a contribution each year.
Our
goal is to raise $25,000 each year. If
each person contributed, on average, $35 per year, or each community contributed,
on average, $300 per year, we would meet this goal and be able to continue
our work on your behalf at the present level. Without your help, we will
not be able to continue to promote the growth of the Marianist Family at
even this modest level. For the last 17 years, MLNNA has not pressed for
your support. We have continued with donations from individual lay and religious
as well as the Society of Mary and Daughters of Mary. We are very grateful
for their help and will continue to rely on it. But we cannot become a mature lay organization
without more general and sustained support. Your help is needed now to carry
out our mission together.
In the spirit of Mary's
mission,
Marge Cavanaugh
President, MLNNA
