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California abbey's consulting firm takes 'desperately needed' approach to fundraising – Catholic World Report


A view from in St. Michael's Abbey in Orange County, California. / Credit: St. Michael's Abbey

CNA Staff, Jan 9, 2024 / 10:30 am (CNA).
An abbey in California launched a consulting and fundraising firm that its leaders say is helping “serve and nourish the Church during a very unique moment in her history.”
The Abbey Group was launched at St. Michael’s Abbey in Orange County, California, in 2020 after the priests saw major success with a capital campaign to build a new monastery there. 
The abbey, of the Norbertine order, launched the campaign in 2006 but it stalled after “a decade of fits and starts,” Gregory Clark, the strategic planning director of the Abbey Group, told CNA. The abbey’s leadership consequently assembled “a small, internal team of confreres to rethink the project,” hiring R. Shane Giblin in the process. 
Within short order the abbey had secured over $150 million in com ....

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