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Healthy eating 101: Making good choices for a family on a SNAP budget
Story - August 26, 2015 - Understanding the importance of sharing meals in strengthening family bonds, Catholic Charities of North Louisiana (CCNLA) has developed a suite of services that ensures that clients not only have access to adequate food, particularly on a SNAP budget, but that they learn and enjoy the process of preparing and serving food as well. CCNLA helps…
It shouldn’t cost more to be poor: Helping the unbanked with finances
Story - August 26, 2015 - There’s a saying: “It costs more to be poor.” And it’s true when it comes to individuals who operate outside of the financial mainstream. They frequently face less secure, less convenient and more expensive alternatives to carrying out their everyday financial transactions. Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph is working to change that, helping low-income…
Lisa Perkins named 2024 Management Excellence Award winner
News - August 15, 2024 - Alexandria, Va. – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) has named Lisa Perkins, chief executive officer of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh, the recipient of the 2024 Management Excellence Award. Each year, the CCUSA Management and Administration Community of Practice confers this honor on an exceptional manager or supervisor in the Catholic Charities network who…
Advocacy, rental assistance elevate spirits of hurricane survivors
Story - August 24, 2015 - When Esperanza and Patrick learned that their Superstorm Sandy-damaged home would have to be elevated and rebuilt after they had already repaired it, they were beyond discouraged. But a case manager at Catholic Charities in Camden, New Jersey, elevated their sprits, advocating for them, securing rental assistance and encouraging them throughout the process. For nearly…
CCUSA joins calls for action on gun violence
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2022/05/25/ccusa-joins-calls-for-action-on-gun-violence/
News - May 25, 2022 - Our hearts break for the families and friends of the shooting victims in Uvalde, Texas — young children and their teachers trapped in a classroom, a place of play and learning — and we hold them close in prayer. As a network of agencies that ministers to the most vulnerable among us, it is the…
CCUSA submits congressional testimony on reducing homelessness
News - February 3, 2022 - Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), submitted testimony for the record to the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance about Catholic Charities’ service to people experiencing homelessness. Read the full document. Sr. Markham’s testimony, based on the experience of CCUSA and its 167…
Awareness campaign promotes life-giving work of Catholic Charities agencies
News - June 10, 2024 - ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), the national membership organization for Catholic Charities agencies, has launched We Are There, an awareness campaign promoting the life-giving work undertaken each day by Catholic Charities agencies around the country. Through national and local advertising efforts, the campaign will shine a spotlight on the vast and varied services…
CCUSA selects ITK Solutions Group to lead national digital transformation
News - June 23, 2021 - (ALEXANDRIA, Va. and BEVERLY, Mass., June 23, 2021 ) — Catholic Charities USA, the nation’s largest social service provider, has selected ITK Solutions Group to lead an extensive digital transformation that will help it provide even more assistance to those in need. The initiative, “Transforming the Delivery of Poverty Services,” will result in a new…
AmeriCorps awards over $1.5 million to CCUSA
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2021/05/28/ccusa-awarded-over-1-5million-in-americorps-funding/
News - May 28, 2021 - (Alexandria, Va.) – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) has been awarded over $1.5 million in federal grants from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). The funding will be used to support four national AmeriCorps projects, including the COVID-19 Response AmeriCorps grant, the Nutrition Education National Direct program, the Financial Education program and the Family…
Catholic Charities agencies engage with schools and communities
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2021/04/22/catholic-charities-agencies-engage-with-schools-2/
News - April 22, 2021 - Alexandria, Va. (April 22, 2021) – The latest issue of Charities USA focuses on how Catholic Charities agencies engage with Catholic schools. You will learn ways Catholic Charities agencies interact with students: by providing mental health/counseling services and offering service projects that help the community. For example: The School Mental Health Program at Catholic Charities…
Bishops’ conference calls for assistance for tornado survivors
News - March 7, 2019 - After tornadoes killed more than 20 people in Lee County, Alabama, and caused destruction in Georgia and surrounding states over the weekend, Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston-Houston and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, expressed…
USCCB and CCUSA lend support to agencies reuniting families
News - July 12, 2018 - Washington – The Migration and Refugee Services of USCCB and Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) today issued the following statement on the ongoing efforts to reunite children separated from their families at the border. “As we have long done, CCUSA and Migration and Refugee Services of USCCB are lending our experience and expertise to support Catholic…