Service Programs

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1 Service Programs Stephen Bolton Service Programs Director Noel Panlilio Asst. Program Director

2 Importance of programs Increase Membership & Retention in our Order To promote active involvement in our Parishes To Support our Communities To promote Healthy Catholic Family Life To set an Example for our fellow Catholic Brothers and Sisters. To set an example for our Children and the Youth of our Parishes and Communities.

3 Our Supreme Knights Message The Knights continue to support their local communities in 2014 through such programs as the Black Friday Coats for Kids event, Food for Families and blood drives. Knights also gave assistance to such organizations as Habitat for Humanity and the American Wheelchair Mission. Supreme Knight Anderson also asked state jurisdictions to step up their already strong support for Special Olympics athletes. The Knights must increase there charitable footprint in our Parishes and our Communities. The Knights must answer Pope Francis call to reach out to those in need

4 7-Program Categories Church Community Council Family Youth Culture of Life Vocations

5 Featured Programs Church RSVP Program Community --Habitat for Humanity & American Wheelchair Mission Council Special Olympics Family Food for families Youth Coats for Kids Culture of life March for Life / Ultrasound Initiative If your council meets the minimum requirements in a featured Program, that gives them full credit for all Columbian award requirements in the respective activity category.

6 Church Activities Chairman Michael Forman Keep Christ in Christmas Chair Vicente Martha Mary's Son Chair Elpidio Andrion Adoration/Silver Rose Chair Jerry Fong 1-Prayer for Peace Day Chair Ruperto Ubaldo Retreat Chair Ross Willour Church's featured program is RSVP Chair Al Castellano

7 RSVP Program

8 RSVP Program Plan we have Three Major Goals [1] Identify all Seminarians from parishes in California. Make a list and track them until they are ordained a priest. [2] Match them up with councils and get councils to support them with scholarships, prayers and cards. [3] Offer them membership in our order. [4] Have degree teams go out to the seminaries to do the degrees, so we don t have to wait for their time off to get them into our order.

9 Community Activities Chairman Victorio Reyes Second Responders Chair Sal DiMarco I.D. Drive Chair Frank Nigro Veterans Assistance Chair Robert Rubio Community Activities Featured Programs are [1] Habitat for Humanity Chair Michael Jones [2] American Wheelchair Mission Chair Dan Moberg

10 I.D.Drive Our Tootsie Roll Drive

11 I.D.Drive Our Tootsie Roll Drive This is the biggest thing we do together each year. This year s goal will be to get the gross drive amount to $1,000, dollars Our second goal for this year is to get 100 more councils in the yearly drive, supporting people with Intellectual Disabilities in their local areas. Our third goal is to reeducate our councils on what the I.D. drive is all about, and why we have this corporation in our State Council.

12 Habitat for Humanity

13 Habitat for Humanity Program Plan Identify a build in Northern California Central California Southern California And get our councils involved in all three of these.

14 American Wheelchair Mission

15 American Wheelchair Mission Program Plan This years goal is to supply at least 1,800 Wheelchairs [6] Containers for needy Veterans in our state. Aggressively collect funds thru December 2015 Order our wheelchairs for needy Veterans. Switch gears after the mid term DD meeting and start collecting funds for the next years State drive. Plan our three distributions for Veterans Northern California Central California Southern California Our three Masters of the Fourth Degree will be our hosts at all these distributions some time in May or June Total dollar goal for Columbian Year is $1,000, in Donations for Wheelchairs.

16 Council Activities Chairman Bradley Roxas Columbus and Founders Day Chair Gerardo Hernandez Year book Chair Ken Morris Council Bulletin Chair Ken Rose Fraternal Activities Chair Ed Cortes Special Olympics World Games Chair P.S.D. Ray Warriner Featured Program for Council Activities Special Olympics Chair P.S.D.Ray Warriner

17 Special Olympics

18 Special Olympics Program plan School Partnership Program Knights can raise funds to support and expand the Special Olympics School Partnership in California. Support 100 new/continuing classrooms Support 100 new/continuing sports programs 100 Knights involved in local school programs Fundraising goal for us this year $350,000.00

19 Family Activities Chairman Jeff Patino Family Week Chair Bert Morales Scholarships Chair John Pozniak Family of the Month/ Year Chair Ernesto Medel Featured Program for Family Activities Food for Families Chair Joseph Galbraith

20 Food for Families

21 Food for Families Program Plan Hold two State wide food drives this year One at Christmas time One at Easter time We will ask all our councils to have a food drive at their parish or at their meetings in November and in February. Collect can goods and certificates for hams or turkeys, and bring all of this to the November and February Chapter meetings. Your Chapter President along with all of you will contact your local Bishop to donate this to a food bank in your diocese or Catholic Charities in your area.

22 Youth Activities Chairman Ken Morris Squires Chair Armando Mena Youth Essay Chair Claire Tryon Youth Poster Chair Robert Pineschi World Youth Day Chair Greg Anthony Soccer Challenge Chair Percy Parks Free Throw Chair Julio Jimenez Featured Program for Youth Coats for Kids Chair Joe Krochmalny

23 Coats for Kids

24 Coats for Kids Program Plan We will ask each council in the State to make a donation of two cases of coats. One for Boys and one for Girls. We will then ask each council to bring their donations to the November Chapter meeting in their area and the Chapter President will make arrangements with the local Bishop to donate all of these costs to needy kids thru Catholic Charities in their area.

25 Culture of Life Chairman Mark Padilla Coordinator North Oscar Martinez Youth and Family Rally Chair Ace Wings Program Chair Eric Watson Mobile Ultrasounds Chair Greg Anthony Featured Programs for Culture of Life Walk for Life Chair Stephen Hagarty Ultrasound Machines Chair Stephen Beuerle

26 Walk for Life

27 Walk for Life Program plan Encourage Brother Knights and their Families and friends to come out to one of the three Walks for Life on January 23, Our Goal that day is to get 25,000 people from the Knights and their families and friends in California out to one of the three walks for life events that day.. We will have t-shirts which you can order, so we will all be wearing the same color shirt.

28 Ultrasound Machine Program

29 Ultrasound Machine Program Plan Our State goal for this year is to provide [Six] new ultrasound machines to local clinics in our state. We will reach this goal by inspiring our councils to do fundraisers for this great cause.

30 Vocations Chairman Matt McDonagh Committeeman for the North World Day of Prayer for Vocations Rick Jarrett Romeo Cabrera RSVP Program will work with Vocations team to make his goals.

31 Your Responsibilities Pass this information on to your Councils. Urge your council leaders to promote our programs. Have your DD Workshop ASAP and ask your council to get involved with our Programs. Make sure your councils submit their reports for everything they do, so we can document our growth and our footprint.

32 Expectations for all 100% of councils participate in our I.D.Drive 100% of our councils support our Featured Programs. 100% of our councils report what they do. 100% of our councils include a membership person at every service program they put on this year.

33 Our Supreme Knight is counting on us to lead the way Questions