Resources for Parishes

This section of the website includes resources and tools to help parishes during the appeal. Please feel free to contact the Development and Stewardship Office if you have any questions.

Payment Only Reports

The parish may receive a check for a pledge previously recorded and the label having been removed from the response sheet. Use of the Payment Only Report will clearly distinguish between pledges and subsequent payments, and will assure that parishioners receive prompt and proper credit for their gifts. When you receive a payment on a pledge that was processed earlier, complete a Payment Only Report (directions are on the back of the form) and send it to the Appeal Office with a parish check for the total on the form.

Instructions for Use of This Form

This Payment Only Report is used for all payments made on previous pledges. This form, along with a parish check, should be sent immediately to the Catholic Services Appeal Office upon receipt of payments at the parish office, so as to assure quick credit to donor accounts. It is important that this form only be used for payments on previously recorded pledges.

  1. Complete the top of the form, then identify each payment by the account number (if known), name and address of each donor.
  2. List the date each payment was received by the parish, and the amount of each gift.
  3. Total the payments accounted for on this form.
  4. Deposit all payments received into the parish account and issue a parish check for the total amount paid.
  5. Keep the yellow copy for parish records and send the white copy, along with the parish check to the Appeal office.