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What We Do
Consulting Services
Capital Campaigns & Feasibility Studies
The ISPD Financial Feasibility Study process helps build support for your campaign needs, followed by a robust implementation process.

Strategic Planning
Set a course for your school or parish’s future with one of ISPD’s Strategic Planning Processes.

Operational Vitality Assessments
ISPD Assessments thoroughly examine your school’s operational vitality and culture.

Coaching Programs
Development/Stewardship Coaching
One-on-one coaching on the meaning, value, and implementation of a vibrant Catholic school or parish development/stewardship effort.

Enrollment Management Coaching
Coaching sessions to understand how to invite, involve, and engage more families into the enrollment funnel.

Leadership Coaching
This coaching process helps administrators learn the critical role that operational vitality plays in Catholic schools and parishes.
Educational Opportunities
ISPD Summer Development School
Join us in New Orleans for the Summer 2025 Development School. Three days to help you grow your school and parish development and enrollment efforts.

Professional Development Classes
ISPD offers online, for-credit courses through the Institute for Pastoral Initatives at the University of Dayton.

Additional Resources
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We Are Catholic.

Headquartered in New Orleans, LA, we work exclusively with Catholic schools, parishes, and (arch)dioceses throughout the country. Our associates are Catholic leaders with over 250 years of combined experience in development/ advancement/stewardship/enrollment management.

Our Mission is Dynamic.

ISPD Mission: Through consulting, coaching, and educating, we bring people, process, and ministry together to help build the Kingdom of God.

We Engage People.

In our consulting, coaching, and teaching processes, we show how to meaningfully engage people in their mission and vision.

We Have 35+ Years of Nationwide Experience.

We are proud of our proven track record of successful partnerships with hundreds of Catholic schools, parishes, and (arch) dioceses.

We Are Objective.

We guide our Catholic clients through their challenges and help create solutions in order to support and integrate their vision, mission, and core values.

We Consult Onsite, Online, or Hybrid.

Our Assessment, Strategic Planning, Enrollment Management, Feasibility Study, Capital Campaign, Annual Fund, and Total Stewardship processes are fine-tuned for success.

We Offer Professional Development Opportunities.

From our annual Summer Development School (3-day conference) to our educational workshops, presentations, and publications, ISPD excels in our PD offerings.

We Teach Online.

In partnership with the University of Dayton’s Institute for Pastoral Initiatives, each semester ISPD teaches online/for-credit courses in Catholic school and parish development.

We Are Affordable.

Our consulting processes, online courses, and our Summer Development School are all reasonably priced.

We Encourage to Move 'Beyond Mediocrity'

ISPD encourages, motivates, and guides our Catholic clients to move “beyond mediocrity.”

Latest Posts from ISPD

A Pause for Prayer, A Cause for Mourning
January 3, 2025
10 min read
Here in the Greater New Orleans Area, where our company is located, all of us at ISPD extend our sympathies and condolences to those who were killed and/or injured in the early New Year’s Day tragedy on Bourbon Street. We are heartbroken and grieve for those families having to endure the reality of this senseless act. New Orleans is a city built on resilience. Through the years, we have faced adversity and risen stronger. As a friend of mine said this morning, “We stand together, not just in mourning, but in our resolve to heal and grow from adversity.” Mardi Gras will go on; the Super Bowl will be held, the spring festivals will take place, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival will be staged; and our company’s annual three-day conference (ISPD Summer 2025 Development School) in June will welcome Catholic leaders from throughout the country. We will rise and come back better than ever. As we said in our December Christmas story: “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” Candles of remembrance, respect, reverence, and hope are lit in the City of New Orleans.

Case Study: Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux Enrollment Management Plan (Part II)
December 13, 2024
6 min read
Case Study: Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux Enrollment Management Plan (Part I)
November 23, 2024
4 min read
Capital Campaigns: Why do Some Succeed and Some Fail?
October 21, 2024
6 min read
How will 2024-25 Be Different in Your Catholic School and/or Parish?
August 15, 2024
6 min read
Back to School Night and Vision Articulation
July 17, 2024
7 min read

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