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The National Catholic School Mentorship Program helps participants stay more focused and accountable through regular check-ins and meetings. Hear how the program helped Principal Teresa Matetich develop and implement her school's enrollment plan.

What started out as a project to assist a transformational group of principals to create an enrollment management plan for their Catholic school communities expanded into a cohort of school leaders who both leaned on and supported one another during what may be the most challenging year in their careers...

Establishing an enrollment management program is one of the most important steps a Catholic school can take. Be sure to establish clarity of your mission, form an enrollment management team, and then create your enrollment management plan that is specific and measurable. We can help you get there.

A broad-based funding plan that looks beyond tuition and typical fundraisers is the best way to achieve long-term financial stability and sustainability. Developing this kind of long-range financial strategy is a part of our planning process when we engage with schools.

Catholic Schools Week is an opportunity to renew our understanding and appreciation for the importance of Catholic Schools.  Catholic Schools are important not only to the individuals and families they serve but to the parishes which support and promote them.  Some of their impact is not immediately seen. According to...

The Meitler team has been actively helping schools, dioceses, and parishes think differently during the pandemic. Dr. Jackie Lichter offers ten action steps for your organization to adapt and survive.

For over 40 years, Ruotolo Associates Inc. (RA) and Meitler have independently served clients across the country as mission-driven, impact-oriented partners. We share an unwavering commitment to the people, purpose, and promise of the institutions we are trusted to serve. In recent years, since becoming partner companies within Collegium, we...

Meitler, the national consulting firm specializing in assisting the Catholic parishes, schools, and other faith-based institutions develop long-term strategic plans, announces the selection of its new managing director, Angela Gunderson, effective September 1, 2020. Angela becomes Meitler’s third leader, succeeding Tom Heding. Angela has been a teacher and a principal...

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic." -Peter Drucker Our Catholic schools, along with all schools, are working to adapt in a changing world over which they have less and less control.  Much of our current situation as a...

Amid the ongoing pandemic and the many unknowns for the 2020-21 school year, Catholic schools are facing a significant, though familiar challenge – enrollment.  Predictions of 100 or more closures by the start of the next school year are becoming a reality as we hear of the loss of three,...