Office of Development

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Your Generosity Changes Lives
We help ensure that our parishes, schools, and service organizations of the Archdiocese have the funds they need to carry out their vital missions. We are your Development Department.

HOW WE HELP: We connect our caring, committed donors with the various ministries of the Archdiocese and greater Church and provides fund raising assistance and support to our parishes and schools.

WHAT WE DO: The Development Department offers the following services to our parishes, parishioners, and the Archdiocese:

Assistance with Capital and Endowment campaigns

Coordinating the Priests Retirement Luncheon (St. John Vianney Luncheon)

Organization, management, and implementation of the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal

Coordination and direction of the Archbishop’s Circle

Assistance with increasing regular parish income

Facilitating Planned Giving and Bequests

Assistance with identifying and soliciting Private Foundation support

Assistance with facilitating Stock donations

Oversight of school endowments

Please contact our Development Director, Rod Linhares, at 415-614-5581, anytime if you have any questions about a particular ministry and/or how to support it, if there is additional information we may provide, etc.

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Our Development Team

Rod Linhares
Director of Development
415-614-5581
LinharesR@sfarch.org

Rod has a twenty-eight year career in fundraising, and he has worked extensively with the greater Church and several parishes in the Archdiocese. Rod believes that collaboration and a mission-driven focus are integral to an organization’s ability to support and assist those it serves, and he looks forward to helping address the goals of the Archdiocese and the individual parishes. He has an undergraduate degree in Business Management from the University of Notre Dame and a graduate degree in Finance from the University of San Francisco. A Bay Area native, Rod and his family are active members of St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo.

Rachel Wetz
Development Associate
415-614-5582
Rachelw@sfarch.org

Chari L. Penson
Administrative Assistant
415-614-5583
PensonC@sfarch.org

Chari Penson came on board in November 2017. In her role as Administrative Assistant, she works very closely with individual parishes and has oversight of much of the communications with them.
A lifelong Catholic, Chari is very familiar with the Church as both a member and administrator. Among her previous positions was Parish Secretary at St. Anne’s in Walnut Creek. Chari is enthusiastic about her role and the opportunity to help those who need and depend on the Church. She says, “As a practicing Roman Catholic, I am blessed to be serving the people and parishes of our Archdiocese.”

Office of Development

Your Generosity Changes Lives