Strategic Initiatives
Catholic Extension Strategic Initiatives
In addition to the funding opportunities described above, Catholic Extension works with partner organizations to proactively create additional opportunities to support Catholic communities in "mission dioceses." Partners are typically Catholic organizations offering services and resources to dioceses that the dioceses would otherwise be unable to attain due to the barriers of cost and/or geographic distance.
Catholic Extension Strategic Initiatives provide support to dioceses in a variety of ways, but are especially represented in Catholic Extension's "Building Leaders" initiative. Examples of partnerships include universities that heavily reduce tuition for degree programs for lay and ordained Catholic leaders.
Seminarian Endowment Challenge
Hispanic Lay Leadership Initiative