Combined Collections

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Each fall, five worthy organizations benefit from the generosity of parishioners like you. Held the third weekend in October, The Church in Mission: Combined Collections focuses on five ministries that have a meaningful impact throughout the world: 

  • Catholic Home Missions
  • Catholic Relief Services
  • Church in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Peter's Pence
  • World Mission Sunday

Each spring, a special collection, known as The Church in the United States: Combined Collections, asks parishioners to donate to several worthy causes through one big collection during the second week of June. The five worthy ministries benefiting from your donations:

  • Black and Indian Missions
  • Catholic Campaign for Human Development
  • Catholic Communication Campaign
  • Catholic University of America
  • Fund for Religious Retirement

This year's fall Combined Collections appeal will take place Oct. 13-14, 2012. Information is mailed to every registered Catholic household in southeastern Wisconsin.

To make a donation now, please mail your check (made out to Combined Collections) to:

Archdiocese of Milwaukee - Development Office
Combined Collections
3501 S. Lake Dr.
P.O. Box 070912
Milwaukee, WI  53207-0912

For questions, please call Michelle Nabih at 414-769-3321.

Please Give Generously!

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History
 

In the mid-1980s, the Council of Priests got together to discuss the volume of “second collections” for various causes. The frequency of the ask (monthly) was too often and the important messages accompanying these charities were being diminished. 

As a result of the study, the first Combined Collections Program began across the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in 1989.

Today, the collections are still combined and are taken twice a year (June and October). Generally one focuses on national causes and the other on international. The same five charities are usually collected for during the spring (June) and fall (October) collections; however, occasionally a new charity is added to the mix and another removed.

 

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The Archdiocese of Milwaukee

3501 South Lake Drive
PO Box 070912
Milwaukee, WI 53207-0912


Phone:  (414) 769-3300
Toll-Free: (800) 769-9373
Fax:  (414)  769-3408

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