News - July 19, 2021 - Alexandria, Va.–Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) is pleased to announce that Nancy Cook Owens, program director at the Room to Grow Early Childhood Learning Center, Catholic Charities of Fairfield County, is the recipient of the 2021 Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan Award. CCUSA’s Bishop Sullivan Award recognizes a person working at a Catholic Charities agency who has…

News - May 24, 2021 - Alexandria, Va. — Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) praises the Biden Administration’s decision over the weekend to grant a new 18-month designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to persons from Haiti. Sister Donna Markham OP, PhD, President and CEO of CCUSA said, “Granting TPS recognizes the continued poverty-stricken conditions of Haiti and relieves those living here…

News - February 2, 2020 - “We urge the administration to reverse this action and consider the human and strategic costs of these harmful bans.” Alexandria, Va. (February 2, 2020) — The President issued a proclamation yesterday restricting the issuance of immigrant visas to people from Burma (Myanmar), Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria. People from Sudan and Tanzania will no longer be…

News - December 12, 2018 - Alexandria, Va. (Dec. 12, 2018) –Sister Donna Markham OP, PhD, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), welcomed the bipartisan effort to advance a farm bill that protects domestic nutrition programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP). “The Conference Committee…

News - June 15, 2018 - Alexandria, Va. – Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, urged Kirstjen Nielsen, United States Secretary of Homeland Security, in a letter this week to stop separating migrant families at the border. “It is deeply troubling that the administration has chosen to create a generation of traumatized children in the name of…

News - March 21, 2017 - Alexandria, Va. – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) distributed more than $4 million in long-term disaster recovery grant funding to 19 Catholic Charities agencies located across the country. Each of the agencies was located in a community that was hit by extreme weather events which occurred in December 2015 and throughout the calendar year of 2016.…

News - June 13, 2017 - Catholic Charities USA is encouraged by the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirming a nationwide preliminary injunction against the Administration’s executive order limiting and suspending the refugee program and banning travel from six Muslim majority countries.  However, the ongoing raids around the country, including the detention for deportation of dozens…

News - August 24, 2017 - Alexandria, Va. – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the SunTrust Foundation to expand client access to entrepreneurship training and savings programs throughout the southeastern United States. The partnership includes a donation of $110,000 and is in response to the need for targeted asset development activities specifically related to…

News - July 13, 2015 - Alexandria, Va. (July 13, 2015) – Low-income adults looking for better jobs, families looking to build brighter futures, and individuals working toward financial goals will all be supported on their journey out of poverty thanks to a new grant from the SunTrust Foundation to Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA). CCUSA, whose national network helped more than…

News - August 19, 2015 - Alexandria, Va. – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), one of the nation’s largest networks of social service providers and disaster operations networks, announced today it has awarded $8.4 million in grants to 24 Catholic Charities member agencies across the country to assist vulnerable populations affected by a disaster. The grants will go directly towards helping meet…

News - September 23, 2015 - Alexandria, Va. (September 23, 2015) – Responding to Pope Francis’ plea that all people work together in caring for creation and the poor, Sister Donna Markham OP, PhD, President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) announced today that CCUSA will join with the White House to help local communities prepare for and be resilient…

News - June 23, 2016 - Today the Supreme Court, by a 4-4 vote, allowed a lower court decision to stand which blocks the implementation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) executive actions. “While today’s split opinion does not decide the ultimate validity of the DACA and DAPA programs, it does…