WRC Announces Shared Services Director
The Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Religious Collaborative is pleased to announce the appointment of S. Sharon Glumb to the newly created Shared Services Director position effective November 1, 2024.
Sister Sharon brings many years of experience as a leader in her community including 10 years in congregational leadership and service as chair or LCWR region 9 as well as treasurer of LCWR Region 8.
Sister Sharon was a member of the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Religious Collaborative from 2018-2023. She also served in various Vocation Director and Campus Ministry positions.
The Shared Services Director works collaboratively with the leadership teams of the 10 member institutes to surface needs in the areas of canonical governance and internal management and to initiate means to addressing those needs. She will become acquainted with each institute’s distinctive character and craft services that are respectful of these distinctions. She will foster networking of the leadership of member institutes and potential service providers.
E-mail: WRC-SSD@wrcollab.org
Cell: (601) 291-6738
WRC: Better Together
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The Wisconsin Religious Collaborative is a membership organization designed to enable religious institutes to collaborate and assist each other with management and resource needs, ultimately allowing leadership to focus on mission and ministry.
WRC member organizations may assist each other in providing needed internal management services through collaboration, sharing of personnel or programs, or through seeking and/or sharing the services of outside vendors. This is the first such organization in the United States. The collaboration will be needs-driven and designed to free leadership and members of religious institutes to focus on mission and ministry.
The Collaborative envisions designing and collaborating on such services as assessing management needs, being a clearing house for available resources, sharing management resources, identifying potential resources to meet needs including outsourcing beyond member institutes, and initiating new collaborative ventures.
After many months of exploration and research, WRC was formed in early 2018, and was accepted in the Official Catholic Directory via the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in June 2018.
The first six months of 2019 focused on establishing an infrastructure for the organization and completing in-depth research and discovery into each member organization's needs and strengths. Several programs and projects were identified to meet the biggest needs and leverage strengths across all the communities. The second half of 2019 focused on developing those programs and continuing to talk to non-member religious institutes to better understand opportunities for expanded collaboration, support, and partnership throughout the region.
Anyone who is interested in learning more about the WRC is invited to reach out to Julie Tydrich:
Julie Tydrich FSPA
608.792.8101
Executive Director