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  2. Affiliate Connect: Marketing Your Mission to Foster Tangible Growth

Affiliate Connect: Marketing Your Mission to Foster Tangible Growth

Wed, 10/15/2025 - 2:00pm EDT to 3:30pm

In a new fiscal year we have a new format for Affiliate Connect meetings with changes designed to increase the benefit to Affiliate Dioceses. Affiliate Connects remain open only to persons in Affiliate Dioceses. Not sure if you are in an Affiliate Dioceses? Check here.

New this fall:

  • Expanded time for more networking time! Affiliate Connects are now one and a half hours. We will start with 15 minutes of open sharing in breakout rooms, keeping you with your peers. Following a presentation on a topic inspired by feedback after previous Affiliate Connects, you will have more time to discuss with peers, finishing with about 10 minutes of large group processing or questions.
  • Open to diocesan AND parish leaders! Registration links will be sent to diocesan disability ministry leaders one week prior to the event and we ask them to share the invitation with parish leaders. 

October's topic: Marketing Your Mission to Foster Tangible Growth

This presentation explores integrating mission-based programs with advocacy and performance marketing into a unified strategy for nonprofit organizations that ultimately need to serve more communities and larger audiences. We’ll discuss the limitations of one-time outreach and the accelerating power of reaching crucial audiences  through effective marketing.

Diocese/ Parishes
Diocese/ Parishes - What to Do for Disability Ministry
James Polis

James W. Polis

James is a marketing executive specializing in growth strategy and activation for America's leading public affairs initiatives and advocacy causes. He graduated from The Catholic University of America in 2013 with a degree in Business Management, and his technical background includes experience across branding, advertising, digital fundraising, analytics, and audience research.

His passion for enhanced disability resources goes back multiple generations in his family history, including his maternal grandmother's local advocacy for early education reforms in Massachusetts and his mother's dedicated career in special education. James and his wife Nicole are blessed with a growing family in Northern Virginia.

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