KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
A lifetime of service promising experiences of total excellence.
| 1 | Serve the Need of the Church Community Offer your time & talent to support the needs of the parish members & meet the pastoral council efforts. |
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| 2 | Be a Beacon of Hope Let your efforts & spiritual works become an example for others to follow as you did in the footsteps of the Lord. |
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| 3 | Grow in Faith & Fellowship Improve your relationship with fellow Catholics & teach other men to fulfill their faithful calling to serve. |
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| 4 | Protect & Enhance your Family Life Encourage a devotion for the domestic church by letting the model of the Holy Family infuse your own life. |
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| 5 | Build Leaders for the Future Lead by Faith, enable the Holy Spirit to guide your ways to foster leadership in yourself and others. |
The Knights of Columbus started in the early US to assist families when their husbands were lost to illness or poor work conditions, pioneered by an Irish priest named Fr. Michael McGivney. Since it's humble birth in Connecticut, the organization has evolved into one of most reliable & reknowned insurance company thoroughout the world. Its success is attributed to fellow knights such as my self & is the principal fund raising arm within any parish.
I became a knight in 2000 and quickly rose to ranks as a 4th Degree Knight so I could form & service multiple committees to benefit various parishes and communities. I employed my corporate & program management skills to implement a Project Central office to help organize council work efforts to establish a collaboration platform while increasing its organizational & project execution effectiveness across parishes.
| 128+ | |
| THOUSAND | |
| MAX FUNDS RAISED | |
| Offering community aid |
| 62K+ | |
| SCHOLARSHIPS | |
| FOR STUDENTS | |
| Benefiting parishes in need |
| 480K+ | |
| CONTRIBUTIONS | |
| MATCHED DONATIONS | |
| Gifts to charitable works |
| 1MM+ | SERVICE HOURS | |
| Time given back to the community | ||
| 9K+ | HEARTS CHANGED | |
| Knights & benefactors transformed | ||
| 20 | years in service |
| 1000+ | hours served |
| 42+ | communities served |
| 26+ | committees serviced |
| 24+ | members sponsored |
| countless | hearts transformed |
| mine | hearts touched |
A Call to Action
Knights of Columbus
Become a Knight and find very purpose in service to others while living a fulfilling life of a Catholic man by giving time & talent to benefit the community through excellence. Discover a group of fellow men who serve the Lord & His children in need by fulfilling the virtues of the Beatitudes.
Knights Columbites
Encourage your spouse to join of the Ladies Auxiliary & support the Knight's activities & the parish is very maternal ways equal to their talents. Deepen your family life offering support to the domestic church as a devoted Columbites.
programs built & completed over the years
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE
| 24+ | 64+ | |||
| PROGRAMS BUILT | PROJECTS COMPLETED | |||
| 84,000+ / 720+ | ||||
| HOURS COMPLETED / RESOURCES USED | ||||
A Program Management Office was built to support various council activities to facilitate collaboration and joint programs. This allowed members accross council to coordinate work, and provide integrated reporting to alleviate redudant work, & offer an end-to-end activity planning. The Project Central services allowed works to be documented & processes to be repeated to execute efficiently. Projects could be spawned rapidly with a replicable roster & collaboration mechanim in place.
HER CHOICE
| 120+ | 272+ | |||
| SPONSORS SECURED | LIVES RECOVERED | |||
| $36K+ / 120+ | ||||
| FUNDS RAISED / RESOURCES USED | ||||
Serving as a sponsor to raise funds to the local women's clinic tending to expecting mothers that offers support during pregnancy through education, testing, clinical care to ensure the health of the life they bring into the world. Parish families provide fostering & adoption for children subjected to social services to ensure well needed care, while securing the well-being of the family. Her Choice remains a staple for mothers in need with the great prospect of saving both mother & child.
KATRINA AID
| 132+ | 468+ | |||
| FAMILIES SERVED | SURVIVORS HELPED | |||
| 18K+ | 48+ | |||
| MEALS & KITS SERVED | FAMILIES REUNITED | |||
| $128K+ / 120+ | ||||
| AID OFFERED / RESOURCES USED | ||||
When FEMA support receeded over time & dispariaged families we subjected to homelessness & financial stress, the Knights stepped up to feed, clothe & ensure that survivors were cared for during their hardship. No child was left abandoned, separated members were reunited & livehoods were restored to a level of normalcy.
CLOTHING DRIVE
| 24K+ | 264+ | |||
| ARTICLES COLLECTED | FAMILIES SERVED | |||
| $36K+ / 720+ | ||||
| CONTRIBUTIONS SENT / RESOURCES USED | ||||
Organized the annual effort to collect articles that includes clothing, furniture & supplies intended to fulfill the needs of families experiencing hardships by alleviating the needs for garage sales. The drive starts every summer & completes by early fall to ensure benefactors have access to well needed supplies in prepartion for the school year by re-purposing clothing & related supplies for good use.
ANGEL TREE PROGRAM
| 42K+ | 6,400+ | |||
| REQUESTS SERVED | FAMILIES SERVED | |||
| $240K+ / 66+ | ||||
| FUNDS DISPERSED / CAMPAIGNS COMPLETED | ||||
A long-time tradition fulfilling the promise of Hope during Christmas, this rewarding program meets the wishes of subscribing families in need bringing great joy in forms of gifts & monetary aid when the cold settles, and families are economically challenged. Parishoners bring items matching Angel Tree requests, where everything is properly wrapped & delivered by a fellow Knight playing Santa, adding to the joy.
FREE CLINIC
| 20+ | 1,200+ | |||
| CLINICS | PATIENTS SERVED | |||
| $40K+ / 96+ | ||||
| FUNDS DISPERSED / CLINICAL HOURS | ||||
Having worked closely with Power of One Health & local outreach programs, clinics were successfully setup very first Sundays of the month to serve the local community members in need of medical attention providing basic examinations & tests. Patients are eventually subscribed to normal medical appointments or professional care when properly engaged into Medicare or applicable social aid programs.