TOGETHER Boldly Moving Our Mission Into the Future
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SIDE BY SIDE TOGETHER Boldly moving our mission into the future. 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear Friends, Can you name this familiar tune? Don’t know what’s comin’ tomorrow Maybe it’s trouble and sorrow But we’ll travel the road sharin’ our load, side by side Congratulations if you correctly identified it as Side by Side. Musician and composer Harry Woods wrote Side by Side in 1927. When you consider that just two years later our country would be plunged into the Great Depression, the words take on an even more profound meaning. They remind us to treasure our relationships. Woods was able to capture the essence of human relationships in lyrics like Just As women of bold so long as we’re together, it doesn’t matter at all. The simplicity of these words faith, we will be is at the heart of all of our partnerships. We are stronger together in the best of times and in the challenging times. And together we have accomplished amazing there, side by side works…for the honor and glory of God. in prayer and good This has been an exciting year for the Ursuline Sisters as we broke ground for works with others our future home and inaugurated the next chapter of our Ursuline story. This who promote faith, admittedly bold plan for the future of our property will relieve us of structures that no longer serve the congregation, so that we might better meet sisters’ dignity, peace and needs and the ever-evolving needs of those around us. The times in which we justice in a world find ourselves demand a freedom to risk with bold faith. And we do so, clinging anguished by war, together with bonds of charity, as our foundress Angela Merici encouraged us. There will be sacrifices, but together in faith and love, all is possible. poverty and natural Clearly we are living in challenging times and our world is sorely in need of a disasters. healing and hopeful presence. As women of bold faith, we will be there, side by side in prayer and good works with others who promote faith, dignity, peace and justice in a world anguished by war, poverty and natural disasters. The Ursuline Sisters thank you not only for your generous financial support over the past year, but even more for your belief in us and for your partnership in our Mission. All is gift. May God continue to bless you as abundantly as you have blessed us. And may God’s Spirit ever guide us, as together we forge a hope- filled and fruitful future, traveling and working…side by side. Gratefully, Sister Susan Durkin, OSU President, Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland 2 | Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland PARTNERS IN MISSION 2016–2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from the President ....... 2 Transforming society through Partners in Mission ..................... 3 contemplation, justice and compassion Financial Overview ..................... 4 LEADERSHIP TEAM Sister Susan Durkin Sr. Joanne Gross Side by Side Together ................. 5 Sister Susan Durkin, Maggie Gibson Sr. Beverly Anne LoGrasso President Darlene Haschak Audie Mulhern Bold Faith | Building a Future ...... 6 Sister Susan Bremer Pat Hilfer Sr. Joan Peine Sister Kathleen Flanagan Julie Janowitz Jamie Turk Capital Campaign Donors .......... 8 Sister Joanne Gross Cindy Johnson Sister Laura Bregar Sister Mercia Madigan PROPERTY & FACILITIES Ursuline Institute of Learning ... 10 Mary Moran COMMITTEE TREASURER Nancy Nather Patricia Oliver, Chairperson Construction Project ................ 12 Sister Joan Peine Mary Lou Raney Tom Chema, Project Mgr. Sister Barbara Jean Sever Bob Bazzarelli Regina Health Center ............... 14 DIRECTOR OF FINANCE Colleen Slattery Tom Brick Robert Bazzarelli Lifetime Benefactors ................ 16 Sister Ritamary Welsh Peter Carfagna Sr. Susan Durkin DIRECTOR OF Sr. Joanne Gross Endowment Fund Gifts ............ 17 DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD Stanley Kaczmar Cindy Johnson COMMITTEES John Reali Honor Roll of Donors/Supporters ................... 17 ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Sr. Joan Marie Russ DEVELOPMENT OF DEVELOPMENT Al Sanchez COMMITTEE Volunteer Supporters ............... 31 Colleen Slattery Bradley Van Auken Bob Valerian, Chairperson DIRECTOR OF Sr. Laura Bregar MARKETING/ Derby Day Sponsors ................. 32 MARKETING AND Joseph M. Cicero, Jr. COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNICATIONS Kim Fleischman COMMITTEE Mary Moran Bill Head Mary Callahan Abood, Cindy Johnson Chairperson CAPITAL CAMPAIGN Lisa Mencini Sr. Susan Bremer DIRECTOR Diane Ruppelt Cindy Johnson Sister Ritamary Welsh Colleen Slattery Peter Miller Christina Walker Mary Moran CAPITAL CAMPAIGN Sr. Ritamary Welsh Mary Patton COORDINATOR Colleen Slattery Hyatt Bolden FINANCE COMMITTEE Terence Uhl Rich Bongorno, Chairperson Joe Zion COMMUNICATIONS Bob Bazzarelli ASSISTANT, OFFICE Sr. Susan Bremer HEALTHCARE COORDINATOR, EDITOR Maria Coyne COMMITTEE Sister Elaine Berkopec Sr. Susan Durkin Joan Mason, Chairperson Kathleen Ferry Sr. Kathleen Flanagan, MA, VOLUNTEER Stephen Jett MSN, RN COORDINATOR Martha Lanning Pamela Gamier, RN Maggie Gibson Sr. Joan Peine Martha Kutik PLEASE NOTE Matt Wade Bill Mason Every effort has been made toward DEVELOPMENT BENEFIT M. Murray Mayo, PhD, RN accuracy in acknowledging our COMMITTEE 2016-2017 INVESTMENT Maureen Mitchell, EdD, RN donors and in the listing of donor Elaine Kason, Chair COMMITTEE Jerry Schroer, Jr. Sister Elaine Berkopec names. We apologize for any John Mannen, Chairperson Lola Tarasco, RN, CDP Mary Ann Blakeley omissions or errors and ask that you Frank Navratil, Chairperson Gerontology Certified Nancy Bluhm report them to Sister Elaine Berkopec Anthony Aveni Sr. Ritamary Welsh Hyatt Bolden Jerry Bielek at [email protected] or Sister Laura Bregar Bob Bazzarelli 440.449.1200, Ext. 199. Shirley Caserta Sr. Susan Durkin www.ursulinesisters.org | 3 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017 CONGREGATIONAL Operating Revenues Operating Revenues Operating Expenses n Salaries & Social Security $3,257,149 4% 2% 2% 6% Donations 25% n Development 1,859,312 n Other 86,716 60% 34% n Other Income 212,444 41% 26% Total Operating Revenues $5,415,621 Operating Expenses n Community Operations $1,346,872 Revenue from Sisters’ Salaries n Plant Operations 1,391,153 n Sisters’ Expenses 2,152,617 $4,000,000 n Sponsored Ministries Support 84,791 $3,500,000 n Other Expenses 308,908 $3,000,000 Total Operating Expenses $5,284,341 $2,500,000 $2,000,000 Contribution to Retirement Fund $131,280 $1,500,000 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 (est) DEVELOPMENT REVENUE BY SOURCE n Derby Day Benefit $177,547 Development Revenue n Donations 463,126 1% 8% 9% n Grants 16,500 n Memorial & Bequests 1,051,365 25% n Programs 8,724 n Retirement Rally 142,050 56% Total $1,859,312 1% 4 | Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland SIDE BY SIDE Since 1535, when Angela Merici TOGETHER: gathered with a varied group Boldly moving our mission of women to form her Company of St. Ursula, her daughters have known and into the future. appreciated those who have boldly journeyed side by side with them to further God’s mission into the future. In 1850, four Ursulines and one laywoman companion ministries, our service, came to a new frontier at the invitation of Bishop and our events. As always, there Amadeus Rappe to offer education to the Catholics in is the list of many wonderful and generous the Diocese of Cleveland. They ministered to a variety of volunteers who walk with us every day. How blessed people by providing Catholic education to the children and grateful we are to have so many with us side by of the diocese. As these institutions and ministries grew, side, even for the daily steps we take together! Our many others joined them in their endeavor to further gratitude overflows into prayer for all of you. Thank God’s mission into the future. you! You are all our rock of support. Today, the Ursulines of Cleveland are living that future. This past year marks a milestone on our journey together: And in the spirit of St. Angela, we are moving God’s a capital campaign Bold Faith | Building a Future to mission boldly forward with many who walk beside us finance a new residence for the Ursuline Sisters, one in hope and grace. You will find herein examples of that is more cost effective than our current Ursuline those who walk side by side with us with the goal of Educational Center, and one that will be sustainable for furthering God’s mission. Those who journey with us are the sisters’ life and ministry in the future. These pages list many and varied in their backgrounds, their connections many who were generous in joining us on this adventure to the Ursulines and their careers. Yet we have become during the last fiscal year. We pray daily for each of friends and co-workers in the “fields of the Lord.” you, and know that many more will join us along the way. We are truly blessed and deeply grateful. In the In this issue of our Annual Report, you will meet two following pages, you will see what was accomplished in women who discovered that their differing careers as the past fiscal year for the capital campaign. Our friends teachers are bearing fruit in their work as tutors for the and supporters continue to amaze us! Ursuline Institute of Learning. They both share a common bond: Ursulines who have been a strong influence We Ursulines may not know all the twists and turns in in their lives. You will also meet two gentlemen, an the path ahead of us, but of one thing we are certain: architect and a construction company vice-president, We are blessed by many who dare to accompany us who have come from the world of design and brick and side by side together, boldly moving our mission mortar to construct a new home for the Ursuline Sisters, into the future.