What do you know about the Parish Transformation Initiative?

Yes, this is a genuine question, not just a rhetorical one.

I came across this in reading the Archdiocesan paper which they’re sending all the school parents in hopes of hooking us as eventual paid subscribers, so I looked them up, found the website, and some general information:  this is a parish-by-parish process that’s been underway since 2011, operating in waves of 20 – 30 parishes at a time; so far 140 of the 353 parishes have been through this process.  (When I first saw that 140 had done this, I thought my local parish was being skipped over, and had to look up the total number of parishes to see that they’re not yet halfway through this process — but that means they’d better get cracking!)  It functions as a series of workshops, for (as far as I can tell) both the “inner circle” and any interested parishoners, that are intended to help identify core areas of focus and implement new plans to increase membership, attendance and parish finances, with an overall goal of increasing attendance by 20% by 2016.

So:  if you’re local to the Chicago area, have you come across this?  Or is this something that’s been done elsewhere, and has it made a difference?