How the UCA goal is determined

Criterion staff report

During a question-and-answer period of the United Catholic Appeal (UCA) advance gathering event at the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center in Indianapolis on Sept. 26, a question was asked about how the UCA goal is set each year. (Read more about the gathering event)

Jolinda Moore, executive director of the archdiocese’s Office of Stewardship and Development and the Catholic Community Foundation, explained that the annual UCA goal amount is based on the finances needed by each archdiocesan ministry to effectively serve the people of central and southern Indiana but which the archdiocese lacks the funds to cover. That deficit amount becomes the goal of that year’s UCA.

Here is a breakdown of how that amount is determined:

Archdiocesan office directors set an annual budget for the funding they feel is needed to effectively carry out their ministry’s mission to serve the people of central and southern Indiana.
The directors present their budget to a committee to explain line items. The committee decides which items to approve, setting that office’s final annual budget.
The deficit amount for each office—budget items deemed necessary for that ministry to serve as the hands and feet of Christ in central and southern Indiana but which the archdiocese lacks funds to cover—is presented to the Office of Stewardship and Development.
The UCA goal is determined based on those deficits.

“That need for the last several years has not extended beyond $6.3 million, which is the goal, again, of this year’s United Catholic Appeal,” said Moore. †

The Criterion

November 1, 2024

How the UCA goal is determined

Criterion staff report

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