What strikes me is the lack of agility in the organization. Things were great in and they were directed to do a spend down. Come 2020 with the pandemic, the fund raising fell off significantly yet they kept spending well beyond what they had for the next 3 years and the investment income fell. Surely that didn't go unnoticed. Who was mak…
What strikes me is the lack of agility in the organization. Things were great in and they were directed to do a spend down. Come 2020 with the pandemic, the fund raising fell off significantly yet they kept spending well beyond what they had for the next 3 years and the investment income fell. Surely that didn't go unnoticed. Who was making the decision to continue over spending? Was it a committee of bishops or department leadership. Either way, management didn't react to chasing conditions fast enough. Where else in the USCCB does the inability to make decisions and react quickly to changing conditions exist? The world as a whole has changed and lumbering organizations will struggle. This seems to me to be a warning sign to revamp how decisions are made and the organization is managed on the whole before it risks collapse on itself.
As a grant giving organization, it would seem like the time to give would be in times like the pandemic when organizations desperately needed money. And despite overspending, there were nevertheless reserve funds that could be dipped into.
What strikes me is the lack of agility in the organization. Things were great in and they were directed to do a spend down. Come 2020 with the pandemic, the fund raising fell off significantly yet they kept spending well beyond what they had for the next 3 years and the investment income fell. Surely that didn't go unnoticed. Who was making the decision to continue over spending? Was it a committee of bishops or department leadership. Either way, management didn't react to chasing conditions fast enough. Where else in the USCCB does the inability to make decisions and react quickly to changing conditions exist? The world as a whole has changed and lumbering organizations will struggle. This seems to me to be a warning sign to revamp how decisions are made and the organization is managed on the whole before it risks collapse on itself.
I suspect Bp. Paprocki and others with their hatchets out here will choose tomorrow not to preach about Reading 2
2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15…
As a grant giving organization, it would seem like the time to give would be in times like the pandemic when organizations desperately needed money. And despite overspending, there were nevertheless reserve funds that could be dipped into.
The reserve funds are almost gone now and we're no longer in pandemic times. They need to live within their budget like everyone else.