For Administrative Efficiency and Effective Communication
Use of Cash Donations
As a guiding principle, we use cash donations only for purposes that would most likely be considered very essential and would be agreeable to all cash donors.
As far as our personal living is concerned, we strive to live in simplicity as encouraged by the Church. We therefore highly discourage donations of fixed assets that would be considered as luxury to the community around us. This is as far as our personal living is concerned. The focolarinos find their own means to support their own personal living and the upkeep of the Focolare as the nucleus of the Work of Mary.
Suggested items for donations in kind
However, should you desire that the Focolare receive additional logistic support to augment its administrative efficiency, communication, and publicity, we would not consider it as counter to the mission assigned to us nor to the spirit of charity by which we ought to be characterized. On the other we would rather that the community and friends of the Focolare donate them in kind so that they would be justifiable to all the donors and clearly appear as purchases decided BY the community FOR the benefit of the community.
As a basic guideline, we suggest that donations be chosen to help us fulfill our mission of spreading the life of unity.
1. To make the house welcome to everyone. It would be better if donated objects are neither rich nor poor in appearance and in accordance to the style of the prevailing cultural setting.
2. To have only what we need. Therefore, for donations, specially of fixed assets, the less frills the better. On the other hand, a minimum of beauty is requested to help the focolare look like a home rather than an office. The former gives an impression of warmth and love, the latter tends to intimidate a bit. As the focolarinos have only an average of an hour or two daily* for home/center upkeep and outreach, the less maintenance-intensive the equipments, the better.
Here are some suggestions:
1. Needed add-ons to a basic and simple CPU to achieve multimedia creation capability:
. a. Additional 256 MB DDR2 memory of high-reliability (abt 1,800)
. b. Sound card, high-fidelity for sound-recording and analog-to-digital conversions. (abt 1,000)
. c. Hard Drive 160GB as secondary drive, SATA-type for backup of networked computers. (abt 3,500)
. d. Video capture card (abt 10,000)
2. External DVD-RW/RAM, writer durable and highly reliable, urgently needed/ (abt 3,400)
2. Network Router, urgently needed. (Netgear 2,400; Linksys 5,300)
3. Uninterruptible Power Supply, urgently needed. (abt 2,600 to 2,800)
4. 2 Automatic Voltage Regulators, urgently needed. (abt 650)
5. Operating system for computer like Windows XP or Win 2000, would be very helpful but not urgently needed. (abt 5,300)
6. Office suite software like MS Office 2000 Small Business, would be very helpful but not urgently needed. (abt 11,000)
7. External Hard Drive 160 GB, urgently needed. (about 3,600)
8. Telephone with answering machine, urgently needed. (abt 1,500?)
9. Digital camera, would be very helpful but not urgently needed. (abt 7,000)
10. 2nd hand laptop, not more than 3 yrs. P3 or higher, would be very helpful but not urgently needed.
11. Utility vehicle, would be very helpful for the regulary activities with the youth, but not urgently needed.
12. Portable Tape and CD Player, for youth activities and tape-to-digital conversions, badly needed. (JVC 3,580; Philips 4,000;
13. Multimedia Projector, would be very helpful but not urgently needed. (60,000 and above.)
14. Computer Table.
15. Portable voice recorder, preferably in digital format but tape format is workable. (Analog: abt 2,000? / Digital: Sanyo 6,000; Sony 7,000)
16. VHS player, second-hand (for analog-to-digital conversions)
For foundations who wish to give continuous support in kind thru requests, please declare your availability. (click here for contact info in home page)
Recreative educational Library
We would be happy if anyone can donate DVD or VCD films, either in English or with English subtitles, of films with good moral values. (They are nowhere to be found in the Video shops or rental stores.) They are very powerful means to communicate the values of the Gospel in a world surrounded by films that make consumeristic hedonism an acceptable normality.
*For proper management of funds, the economy/financing of the Focolare is divided into 2 distinct and clearly defined areas: 1. the Focolare (core unit) as a self-sustaining body, and 2. the apostolate and outreach to the community (which is also called the Opera, meaning "Work"). The accounting and usage of funds are likewise distinct.
The Focolarinos go outside to do income-generating jobs as common lay persons do, to sustain their own personal living, spiritual formation, and professional/theological updating. The communion of goods on the international level among focolarinos is carried out on an institutional/recurring basis only for the purposes just mentioned.
Funds for the apostolate and outreach to the community are sourced from the community, that is, from its non-core-unit members and Focolare friends. The communion of goods, on an international level, among all other mass movements and common initiatives are generally done on a per-event basis.
As a guiding principle, we use cash donations only for purposes that would most likely be considered very essential and would be agreeable to all cash donors.
As far as our personal living is concerned, we strive to live in simplicity as encouraged by the Church. We therefore highly discourage donations of fixed assets that would be considered as luxury to the community around us. This is as far as our personal living is concerned. The focolarinos find their own means to support their own personal living and the upkeep of the Focolare as the nucleus of the Work of Mary.
Suggested items for donations in kind
However, should you desire that the Focolare receive additional logistic support to augment its administrative efficiency, communication, and publicity, we would not consider it as counter to the mission assigned to us nor to the spirit of charity by which we ought to be characterized. On the other we would rather that the community and friends of the Focolare donate them in kind so that they would be justifiable to all the donors and clearly appear as purchases decided BY the community FOR the benefit of the community.
As a basic guideline, we suggest that donations be chosen to help us fulfill our mission of spreading the life of unity.
1. To make the house welcome to everyone. It would be better if donated objects are neither rich nor poor in appearance and in accordance to the style of the prevailing cultural setting.
2. To have only what we need. Therefore, for donations, specially of fixed assets, the less frills the better. On the other hand, a minimum of beauty is requested to help the focolare look like a home rather than an office. The former gives an impression of warmth and love, the latter tends to intimidate a bit. As the focolarinos have only an average of an hour or two daily* for home/center upkeep and outreach, the less maintenance-intensive the equipments, the better.
Here are some suggestions:
1. Needed add-ons to a basic and simple CPU to achieve multimedia creation capability:
. a. Additional 256 MB DDR2 memory of high-reliability (abt 1,800)
. b. Sound card, high-fidelity for sound-recording and analog-to-digital conversions. (abt 1,000)
. c. Hard Drive 160GB as secondary drive, SATA-type for backup of networked computers. (abt 3,500)
. d. Video capture card (abt 10,000)
2. External DVD-RW/RAM, writer durable and highly reliable, urgently needed/ (abt 3,400)
2. Network Router, urgently needed. (Netgear 2,400; Linksys 5,300)
3. Uninterruptible Power Supply, urgently needed. (abt 2,600 to 2,800)
4. 2 Automatic Voltage Regulators, urgently needed. (abt 650)
5. Operating system for computer like Windows XP or Win 2000, would be very helpful but not urgently needed. (abt 5,300)
6. Office suite software like MS Office 2000 Small Business, would be very helpful but not urgently needed. (abt 11,000)
7. External Hard Drive 160 GB, urgently needed. (about 3,600)
8. Telephone with answering machine, urgently needed. (abt 1,500?)
9. Digital camera, would be very helpful but not urgently needed. (abt 7,000)
10. 2nd hand laptop, not more than 3 yrs. P3 or higher, would be very helpful but not urgently needed.
11. Utility vehicle, would be very helpful for the regulary activities with the youth, but not urgently needed.
12. Portable Tape and CD Player, for youth activities and tape-to-digital conversions, badly needed. (JVC 3,580; Philips 4,000;
13. Multimedia Projector, would be very helpful but not urgently needed. (60,000 and above.)
14. Computer Table.
15. Portable voice recorder, preferably in digital format but tape format is workable. (Analog: abt 2,000? / Digital: Sanyo 6,000; Sony 7,000)
16. VHS player, second-hand (for analog-to-digital conversions)
For foundations who wish to give continuous support in kind thru requests, please declare your availability. (click here for contact info in home page)
Recreative educational Library
We would be happy if anyone can donate DVD or VCD films, either in English or with English subtitles, of films with good moral values. (They are nowhere to be found in the Video shops or rental stores.) They are very powerful means to communicate the values of the Gospel in a world surrounded by films that make consumeristic hedonism an acceptable normality.
*For proper management of funds, the economy/financing of the Focolare is divided into 2 distinct and clearly defined areas: 1. the Focolare (core unit) as a self-sustaining body, and 2. the apostolate and outreach to the community (which is also called the Opera, meaning "Work"). The accounting and usage of funds are likewise distinct.
The Focolarinos go outside to do income-generating jobs as common lay persons do, to sustain their own personal living, spiritual formation, and professional/theological updating. The communion of goods on the international level among focolarinos is carried out on an institutional/recurring basis only for the purposes just mentioned.
Funds for the apostolate and outreach to the community are sourced from the community, that is, from its non-core-unit members and Focolare friends. The communion of goods, on an international level, among all other mass movements and common initiatives are generally done on a per-event basis.
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