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Program UP helps single mom, kids escape life of poverty

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/the-uplifting-parents-program-2/

Story - March 28, 2018 - Brittney Papike believes the Uplifting Parents Program helped her escape a life of poverty. Over the next five years, the University of Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) wants to test if Papike, a Rapid City single mom of two kids, is right. LEO will conduct a randomized controlled trial study to…

Friday of the first week of Lent, 2023

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/about-us/prayers-reflections/lent-reflection-2023-10/

Prayer & Reflection - March 3, 2023 - Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift. I always felt like forgiveness depended on trust. In order to forgive someone, you…

Catholic Identity Integration

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CCUSA Webinar: United in Mission: Leading Self and Others Through Catholic Culture CCUSA Webinar: Engaging the Diaconate How Dallas Equips Deacons to Integrate Faith and Service CCUSA Webinar: “The Theology of the Good Samaritan – Putting Fratelli Tutti into Action.” CCUSA Primary Resource: Catholic in Charity & in Identity: Resources to Enhance the Legacy.

Catholic Charities Bureau, Superior

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Member - August 17, 2015 - Catholic Charities Bureau has been providing services to the poor and disadvantaged as an expression of the social ministry of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Superior for over 100 years. We provide oversight to 128 programs in 60 communities and over 650 units of housing.

Kerry Alys Robinson appointed Catholic Charities USA president and CEO

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2023/07/25/kerry-alys-robinson-appointed-catholic-charities-usa-president-and-ceo/

News - July 25, 2023 - Kerry Alys Robinson, a renowned expert in Catholic leadership and philanthropy, will serve as the next president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA).

CCUSA announces 2017 Volunteer of the Year

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2017/04/24/ccusa-announces-2017-volunteer-of-the-year/

News - April 24, 2017 - Alexandria, Va. – Sister Donna Markham OP, PhD, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), announced today that Mrs. Estelle Anderson of Buffalo, N.Y. has been named the CCUSA Volunteer of the Year for 2017 (Click here for a brief video featuring Mrs. Anderson). “Estelle truly embodies the generous charity Jesus describes in the…

CARES Act helps, but there’s room to improve

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/cares-act-helps-catholic-charities-agencies-but-theres-room-to-improve/

Story - April 7, 2020 - In an interview with America magazine, Brian Corbin, executive vice president for Member Services at Catholic Charities USA, said the the CARES Act does a lot for Catholic Charities agencies in the U.S. in terms of government relief, but “there’s room to improve.” From the interview: “Mr. Corbin said the vast majority of the nation’s…

CCUSA extremely disappointed in “Public Charge” Supreme Court ruling

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2020/01/27/catholic-charities-usa-reacts-with-extreme-disappointment-to-u-s-supreme-court-ruling-on-public-charge/

News - January 27, 2020 - Alexandria, Va. (January 27, 2020) – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) is extremely disappointed in the U.S. Supreme Court’s unprecedented ruling in favor of the Administration’s revisions to the “public charge” rule, which harms families, targets lawful immigrants and could prevent families from receiving vital nutrition and housing assistance. “We implore the Administration to reconsider this…

CCUSA sees PROMESA as important step forward for people of Puerto Rico

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2016/06/09/ccusa-sees-promesa-as-important-step-forward-for-people-of-puerto-rico/

News - June 9, 2016 - Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), deeply concerned about the crisis in Puerto Rico, especially its effects on children and those in poverty, sent letters to the House of Representatives urging them not only to pass legislation to allow Puerto Rico to restructure its debt but also to support an amendment to strengthen the bill that directly…

The new solar field of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Washington

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/protecting-the-gift-of-nature-yields-win-win-for-agency-the-new-solar-field-of-catholic-charities-archdiocese-of-washington/

Story - February 5, 2020 - In the Archdiocese of Washington, we were blessed to dedicate a new solar array on Oct. 17, 2019. Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, joined us, as well as Archbishop Wilton Gregory, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, and Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C. All spoke glowingly of this effort…