About Us
The National Collections Committee is responsible for promoting the stewardship dimension of the collections, and in coordinating, supporting, and increasing the revenues of the national collections. These efforts support the Church’s works of social justice, evangelization, education, and national and local institutional development—both domestically and around the world. The committee works collaboratively with other mission-related committees on issues of mutual concern.
Committee on National Collections Members:
Archbishop John Vlazny, Chairman;
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Cardinal Justin Rigali, Bishop Jacob Angadiath, Bishop Thomas Costello, Bishop Ronald Herzog, Bishop Roger Morin, Bishop John Ricard, S.S.J., Bishop Jaime Soto, Bishop Michael Warfel
Subcommittees to the National Collections Committee are:
The National Collections Committee’s key mission responsibilities include:
- Developing national awareness of the needs of those served by the collections;
- Coordinating and administering the grant process for select national collections;
- Supporting year-round promotion and outreach activities through established diocesan networks to realize an annual increase in collection revenues;
- Ensuring accountability in solicitation, collection, and use of funds;
- Exploring and supporting the development of other non-collection sources of revenue for all the national collections;
- Researching best practices in the area of fund raising and promotional outreach;
- Working with the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis for a comprehensive approach to stewardship.
The National Collections staff supports the work of the Committee and is responsible for the Collection promotions and grants allocation for:
- Church in Africa;
- Church in Central and Eastern Europe;
- Catholic Home Missions;
- Church in Latin America.
Staff is also responsible the for promotion and fund raising efforts of the:
- Catholic Campaign for Human Development;
- Catholic Communications Campaign
- Catholic Relief Services Collection;
- Economic Concerns of Holy See (Peter’s Pence).
USCCB Office of National Collections Staff