RESOURCES
The Center for Church Management has created a number of relevant, accessible videos to help church leaders and church managers exercise the best practices for stewardship. These videos are accessible via our YouTube playlist.
Recent Presentations
- Catholicism at a Crossroads: The Present and Future of America’s Largest Church, by Maureen Day, PhD
- Six Best Principles for Engaging Immigrant Communities in the Financial Management of the Church
- Catholic Foundations: An Analysis of Governance Structures, Transparency, and Financial Performance by Stephen J. Porth, PhD
Publications by the Villanova Center for Church Management Faculty and Staff
Human Resources Best Practices in Church Management by
Carol Fowler
Addressing Human Resources in the church environment, this book explores the infrastructure of human resources, spanning the legal, informational and procedural dimensions of the filed. Basic information, terminology, and direction for new or experienced pastors or church leaders, as well as recommended tools and best practices help managers deal with the human resources issues that face every faith-based organization.
Pastoral Leadership: Best Practices in Church Management
Dan R. Ebener
What does it take to lead in a Catholic parish? Veteran teacher, author and parish leader Dan Ebener contends that anyone can lead change in a parish with or without positional authority. In most places, the Church is over-managed and under-led. To turn this around, we need clergy to: 1. Provide more leadership and less management, and 2. Develop the leadership potential of the laity. We need lay people to step up to lead, manage, and lead change.
Parish Finance Best Practices in Church Management
Michael J. Castrilli and Charles E. Zech
Most Catholic parishes struggle with basic financial issues like budgeting, internal financial controls and financial planning. Canon law places the responsibility for parish finances squarely on the lap of the pastor; but pastors typically are not versed in financial matters -- their gifts reside elsewhere. Lacking training on these important topics, many parishes employ a parish business manager, but their background and competence in addressing these critical issues varies widely. Church leaders at all levels need a single comprehensive source, written in a style that they can understand, to guide them through the steps needed to ensure an effective, as well as an accountable and transparent, financial process.
Creativity in Church Management: Entrepreneurship for the 21st-Century Parish
Edited by Charles E. Zech
As an adjunct to the Best Practices in Church Management Series, Creativity in Church Management covers a number of topics that, while important, do not warrant their own volumes in the series. Topics include co-responsibility, managing parish diversity, and issues surrounding parish reconfiguration and consolidation.
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