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Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities (FADICA). A consortium of private family foundations established in 1976 to help its members become more effective in directing their philanthropy toward Catholic causes and activities. The organization’s members account for nearly two-thirds of all U.S. based foundation giving to Catholic causes. FADICA has effectively represented lay philanthropic perspectives in a number of ways in its interaction with the Catholic hierarchy, and with leaders of national and international charity organizations. In her book, Being Catholic Now, Kerry Kennedy, interviews FADICA’s president, Dr. Frank Butler, about the scope of FADICA’s interaction with the Catholic church. The charitable group, according to Kennedy’s interview, managed to provide a constructive and catalytic influence in a number of areas including the just treatment of Catholic sisters. FADICA has been a force for financial accountability and transparency within the Catholic church by being instrumental in starting the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, and influencing the hierarchy to adopt stronger stewardship policies.

 FADICA Guides Catholic Grantmaking, By Katherine Noble Goodman,Foundation News and Commentary, July/August 2002 Vol 43, Number 4. Pp.16-17
 The Catholic Philanthropic Tradition in America, Mary J. Oates, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN 1995 p 139 ff.

 Being Catholic Now, Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning. Kerry Kennedy Random House, 2009 pp 88-92
 Ibid p 88.
 Governance, Accountability and the Future of the Catholic Church, Francis Oakley and Bruce Russert ed. Continuum Press New York, 2004 pp 153-160.

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