Mission Development Office
Cristina Duranti Lidia Minozzi
Mr. Andrea Curreri
Director of Good Shepherd
Mission Development
Programme Officer
Good Shepherd
Mission Development
Resource Coordinator
Good Shepherd
Mission Development
What is the
The Mission Development Office (MDO) was created by the Congregational Leadership Team in January 2007 to support the missions of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Africa, Asia and Latin America in fundraising, grant seeking, capacity building and community development.
The MDO is a central coordination office based at the Generalate in Rome, whose Director is responsible for planning, developing and supervising the activities carried out by a network of partners collaborating from different countries:
Sr. Cordis Ganslmaier is the MDO link person in Germany, and keeps contacts with the Catholic funding agencies in her country;
Sr. Margaret Lynch is the Good Shepherd Sisters’ Link Officer with the Irish funding agency misean cara;
Sr. Mary Carolyn Mc Quaid is responsible for the Mission Development Corporation in St. Louis, MO, a non profit corporation established to channel grants from US donors;
Sr. Jane Mc Veigh collaborates on grant seeking with US based funding agencies with a specific focus on Sisters’ educational programs.
The MDO works in partnership with the coordinators of the Good Shepherd Fair Trade and Income Generating projects in the world, in particular with Handcrafting Justice in New York and Trading Circle in Australia.
The MDO is currently staffed by Mrs. Cristina Duranti (Director), Mrs. Lidia Minozzi (Program Manager) and Mr. Andrea Curreri, hired in February 2010 to cover the newly created position of Resource Coordinator for Women Projects to support the Good Shepherd Economic Justice ministries in the world.
Sr. Genny Dumay from the Philippines is temporarily replacing Mrs. Lidia Minozzi as Program Manager during her maternity leave.
In May 2008 the Congregational Leadership Team decided to create the Good Shepherd International Foundation in Rome, as an Italian non profit organisation to give the MDO a legal and independent status to better serve the purpose of fundraising in support of the missions of the Sisters in the developing world.
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