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Innovative social enterprise brings produce to Chicago’s food deserts

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Story - August 12, 2015 - Catholic Charities in Chicago started Crisp! Mobile Produce, an innovative social enterprise, to address the issue of food deserts in underserved areas of the city while generating revenue to fund other Catholic Charities food and nutrition programs. Launched in 2013 with a grant from the USDA Farmers Market Promotion program, Crisp! is a mobile grocery…

Chicago Catholics tend parish gardens, supply pantries during pandemic

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Story - June 10, 2020 - For years, some parishes in the Chicago Archdiocese have maintained gardens whose produce was donated to local food pantries. With the rise in food insecurity during COVID-19 sending more people to food pantries than before, those ministries have taken on a new importance. Volunteers at the Jubilee Garden of St. Francis de Sales Parish in…

Meeting the needs of disaster survivors in Chicago

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Story - January 30, 2018 - After Hurricane Maria devastated thousands in Puerto Rico in September, Catholic Charities began to see individuals and families turning to us for help. They had left Puerto Rico in the midst of great devastation and resettled in Chicago. Working with the City of Chicago, Catholic Charities and other social service agencies opened a multi-agency resource…

Catholic Charities staffer offers congressional testimony on domestic violence prevention

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/program-officer-at-catholic-charities-archdiocese-of-chicago-testifies-before-congressional-hearing-on-domestic-violence-prevention/

Story - March 22, 2021 - Ami Novoryta, chief program officer at Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, gave testimony before the House Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services on March 22, 2021. The hearing, chaired by Representative Suzanne Bonamici (Dem., Oregon), was entitled “Ending the Cycle: Examining Ways to Prevent Domestic Violence and…

Msgr. Michael M. Boland to receive 2017 Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan Award

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2017/08/28/monsignor-michael-m-boland-president-ceo-catholic-charities-of-chicago-to-receive-the-2017-bishop-joseph-m-sullivan-award/

News - August 28, 2017 - Alexandria, Va. – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) is pleased to announce that Monsignor M. Boland, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, is this year’s recipient of the 2017 Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan Award. CCUSA’s Bishop Sullivan award recognizes a person working at a Catholic Charities agency who has distinguished himself/herself…

After Supper Visions program provides meals, cameras

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Story - November 1, 2018 - The After Supper Visions program of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago is a social enterprise that allows the homeless and near-homeless of Chicago to express themselves creatively through photography. On Tuesday nights, the supper guests at Catholic Charities’ downtown Chicago location who are interested in participating receive a camera and are asked to…

Fostering a faith-based support network

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/catholic-charities-fosters-faith-based-network-of-support-throughout-suburban-cook-county/

Story - February 16, 2022 - Deadly pandemics are nothing new to the 104-year-old organization known as Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Founded in 1917 as the Spanish Influenza Epidemic was sweeping the globe, Catholic Charities originated as a central charity intended to relieve the burden on Catholic parishes as they struggled to meet the needs of the poor…

The older I get, the closer I get to God

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Story - May 2, 2016 - “The older I get, the closer I get to God,” says Emma Powell, 65. She is sitting in the Josephine P. Argento Senior Center of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Chicago in south suburban Harvey, flanked by two women with whom she is very close: her mother, Evelena Brown, age 85, and her grandmother, Annie Davis,…

Food rescue lessens hunger, helps environment

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Story - February 6, 2020 - After reading Laudato Sí, Pope Francis’ encyclical on caring for the earth, Elizabeth Acevedo asked herself, “Where do I fit in?” It’s precisely the question Pope Francis wants the reader to ask: “All of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation, each according to his or her own culture, experience,…

With children’s prayers nearby, bishops try to tackle immigration

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Story - June 2, 2021 - Prayers, the kind only a child can make, were on display on a table of pleas written by migrant children near a small statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, as bishops from the U.S., Mexico and Central America gathered June 1 in Mundelein. The prelates came together for the first day of an emergency meeting…

Successful Catholic app adds features to help people cope in pandemic

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Story - April 21, 2020 - In 2018, Alessandro DiSanto quit a promising job in finance to join friends in starting an app for Catholics centered around meditation and prayer. That app, Hallow, is now the top Catholic app in app stores, has 150,000 downloads in 50 countries and has been used to pray over 1 million times, according to DiSanto.…