THE CHALLENGE
Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Woodland, California, faced two mounting challenges: It had outgrown its church building, and that building needed extensive maintenance. These two challenges pointed the way for parish leadership – it was time to construct a new church building to serve as the faith family’s home for the years and decades to come. To do so, the parish needed to raise significant funds – and needed to hire a fundraising firm to lead the community through a comprehensive capital campaign.
THE VISION
The Grateful for the Past, Committed to the Future campaign had one major goal – constructing a new church home for the community while incurring as little debt as possible.
THE SOLUTION
Holy Rosary partnered with the Steier Group and began its campaign with a $3.75 million building fund. The parish had a commitment from the Diocese of Sacramento to offer a loan if the community could raise an additional $3.42 million. Through a customized capital campaign plan, strong communications and the guidance of the Steier Group, the campaign emphasized exceeding this goal to avoid additional debt. With enthusiastic support and dedicated leadership, the community raised over $5.5 million, surpassing expectations and securing the necessary funding to begin construction. This exceptional effort, demonstrating best practices in fundraising, has put Holy Rosary on track to celebrate Mass in their new church by 2025.
“I am convinced that Holy Rosary Parish accomplished this historic result because of the outstanding collaboration and work with the Steier Group, and in particular, the work of our consultant and project manager. Because of their work and in conjunction with parish leadership, our architects, and construction advisors, we will soon have a spectacular church building to worship our Lord and honor His Holy Mother.”
Rev. Jonathan Molina, Pastor
Campaign Stats
The Steier Group’s unique, hands-on campaign management model, combined with our expert grant writers, award-winning designers and creative fundraising strategies, allowed us to exceed goal.
Goal
3250000
Raised
5500000
Percentage of Goal
169
A Customized Approach
We founded our firm on the belief that the best capital campaign is one that is customized and executed by one team, under one roof. When you hire the Steier Group, you eliminate the need to contract with additional vendors for services like copywriting, graphic design, grant writing, video production, website development or wealth screening. We reject the one-size-fits-all approach to fundraising and embrace every opportunity to design a capital campaign plan that will maximize our client’s fundraising potential.
Contact Steier Group today
You have a vision for the growth and success of your church, school or organization. Now it’s time to gather the generous, wholehearted support you need to make it happen. Contact Steier Group today to discuss the benefits of a customized capital campaign.
