(podcast) A Good Steward Receives God’s Gifts Gratefully

This article is featured in our newsletter, Tertium Quid – Vol. 1, Issue 3
“A Good Steward Receives God’s Gifts Gratefully” is the second of our five-part Spanish-language podcast series introducing the concept of Christian Stewardship to the Latino community. The podcast again features a conversational interview with O’Meara Ferguson Executive Consultant Koren Ruiz, and begins [...]

(podcast) Introducing the Concept of Christian Stewardship to the Latino Community

This article is featured in our newsletter, Tertium Quid – Vol. 1, Issue 2
O’Meara Ferguson is announcing its first original Spanish-language podcast, entitled “Introducing the Concept of Christian Stewardship to the Latino Community”. This is the first podcast in a series of five, and features a conversational interview with O’Meara Ferguson Executive Consultant Koren Ruiz. [...]

Catholic Schools Search for Funding Answers

Kansas City Star – February 3, 2010 – By Joe Robertson
Two years ago, the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph began trying to figure out how to keep Catholic schools open and thriving.
In a long-range planning process led by Bishop Robert Finn, hundreds of people have defined Catholic identity and academic excellence and worked on [...]

(podcast) Mission Advancement in a Challenging Economic Environment

This afternoon marked the first day of O’Meara Ferguson’s summer conference, Development, Financing and Catholic Education in a Turbulent Economy. As Catholic professionals experienced in the Church’s temporal affairs, O’Meara Ferguson is presenting this conference to provide bishops, religious superiors, and their leadership teams with the tools to become more effective stewards of the Church’s [...]

(podcast) Hope For Our Catholic Schools (Part II): Operational Models

In the second part of our five-part series on Catholic School Financing, O’Meara Ferguson president and founder Patrick O’Meara discusses the spectrum of operational models used in Catholic education. Following the spectrum illustrated below, O’Meara details the structure, benefits and challenges of four operational models:

The cost-based model
The annual fund model
The philanthropic (donation-driven) model
The stewardship model

O’Meara [...]

(podcast) Hope for our Catholic Schools (Part I): An Overview of Economic Models

Catholic Education is one of the Church’s primary responses to Christ’s mandate to “Go unto all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit – teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” Sadly, across the country, Catholic schools are closing or are on the [...]

(podcast) The Economy, Building Projects, and Capital Campaigns: Hope Amidst Difficult Times

The Church’s witness to hope is needed now more than ever. In a recent podcast, O’Meara Ferguson president and founder Patrick O’Meara argues that as the stock market struggles to rebound and as trust in material things is fading, “the Church has the opportunity to speak with great conviction and with great efficacy.”
For O’Meara, [...]

(podcast) O’Meara Ferguson Responds to the Global Financial Crisis – Exclusive Interviews

In October 2008, as the U.S. and the world began to confront the current financial crisis, O’Meara Ferguson hosted two separate client conference calls with two leading and very different financial institutions – William Blair and Deutsche Bank.
Both financial institutions first read prepared remarks discussing the emerging crisis and their opinions as to the various [...]