Organizations Filed Purposes:
New Ways Ministry serves as a bridge between lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer (LGBTQ) Catholics and the institutional Church. Its most significant activities are educational programs about Catholicism, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
The Social Media or Digital Outreach Project includes a website, publication of a daily blog on LGBTQ Catholic issues, multiple social media channels on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIN, and an email list. In 2020, the website was visited 676,902 times and the blog surpassed 3,700 subscribers. At the end of 2020, New Ways Ministry had 13,711 followers on Facebook (total over 3 pages), 4,452 followers on Twitter, and 1,768 followers on Instagram.
The History Project chronicles the history and happenings of LGBTQ ministry in the Catholic Church through a newsletter called Bondings. For 2020, 4 issues (about 9,000 copies) of the paper newsletter were printed. This was volume #39, issues #1, 2, 3, and 4.
The Education Outreach Project consisted of a number of virtual programs on Zoom because of the covid-19 pandemic. These programs included: NExt Steps: An Outline Course about Developing Catholic LGBTQ Ministry; a Virtual Celebration of Catholic LGBTQ Pride; a webinar on "The Supreme Court & LGBTQ Issues: What Catholics Need to Know in 2020"; and a zoom session for Catholic lesbian/gay theologians.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
Francis Debernardo | Executive Director | 48 | $84,220 |
J Gerald Fath | Counselor | 0.25 | $0 |
Christie Traina | Professor of Theology | 0.25 | $0 |
Ryan Sattler | Retired businessman | 0.25 | $0 |
Dorothy Jeannine Gramick | Treasurer/Co-Founder | 20 | $0 |
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