ANY FINANCIAL DONATIONS ARE DEEPLY APPRECIATED

Catholica Australia is a lay-led and lay-funded internet initiative which has the principal objective of seeking to reach out to at least a proportion of the opinion forming sectors of that now vast population which has become disenchanted with institutional Catholicism.

If you would like to contribute financially to our work please make a donation using this secure PayPal facility.

HOW YOUR DONATION WILL BE USED...

We are opening this secure PayPal facility for people who would like to make smaller contributions to our work.

In the long run our work will require a substantial input of capital funding in order to utilise innovative search engine technologies to reach the audience we seek to serve. Access to those technologies is expensive and we are presently raising the funding that will be required to use them from philanthropic sources (not through this PayPal facility).

	Brian Coyne – Editor and Publisher

In the meantime we have had a growing number of enquiries from individuals who support our endeavour and who would like to make a small financial contribution to our work. Many of these enquiries have come from people who read our commentaries and follow the discussions on our forums but who do not themselves contribute to the discussions.

At present all funds raised in this way will be utilised either in the payment for the various technical facilities we use, such as web-hosting and the commercial facility we use to maintain our growing email database, or they will be used to help disperse the costs of the advertising we pay for in secular and religious media channels to promote our work.

In the long run, when we have the philanthropic support we require, we intend to also reimburse our lead commentators for the skill and time they are able to bring to our endeavour in helping us attract the audience we seek to serve. At that point we expect approximately half our annual income will be dispersed towards the payment of writers and contributors to the endeavour, about 25% in advertising and the purchase of the search engine technologies that enable us to reach our audience, and around 25% will be spent on administrative overheads including for the employment of personnel to administer our databases and liaise with members.

If you would like to make a donation to Catholica Australia you can do so securely through PayPal facility towards the top of this page. We emphasize again that all payments made through this secure PayPal facility will be committed to the purchase of advertising and the disbursement of the technical costs of maintaining the website and email facilities that Catholica uses.

We have confidence that when Catholica has reached its final objectives it will not be dependent on philanthropic or charitable support but will be able to stand on its own feet through commercial advertising. Based on other models, we believe it will take about four years to reach that point of self-sustainability.

PLEASE NOTE: We are providing this PayPal facility through the account of Vias Tuas Communications, the business behind Catholica. Your credit card statement will show the payment having been made to "VIASTUASCOM".

If you would like further information please contact:
Brian Coyne, Editor & Publisher, Catholica
34 Martin Place, LINDEN NSW 2778, Australia
tel: +612 4753 1226 | skype name: briancoyne
email: editor@catholica.com.au