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PovertyUSA
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Blog: To Go Forth
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Items of Interest
- Reflections on Poverty in America
- A Place at the Table
- Domestic Poverty
- Unemployment and Poverty
- CCHD Videos
Catholic Campaign for Human Development
CCHD: Working on the Margins
Happening Now
Francis, Frontera, Faith and Family
Catholic Campaign for Human Development director Ralph McCloud participated in the recent Papal Visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. Read his reflections.
CCHD Annual Report
Download the 2014 Annual Report and see how your gift makes a difference to help break the cycle of poverty in the United States.
E-Newsletter
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The quarterly CCHD newsletter Helping People Help Themselves features the San Juan Community Home Trust. Established in 2001, the San Juan Community Home Trust creates permanently affordable homes for low-income households.
January is Poverty Awareness Month
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with facts, tips, and ways you can take action from the Poverty
Awareness Month Calendar to end poverty in your community! Also visit
the Poverty Awareness Month page for additional ways to join the U.S. Bishops, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and the Catholic Community in the United States in taking up Pope Francis' challenge to live in solidarity with the poor!
CCHD Announces the 2015 Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award
Winner!
As Edith Avila, this year's Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award Winner,
puts it: "Catholicism calls us to be anything but silent" and "Fighting
for justice for all people isn't an option for Catholics, it is our
mission." Read more about Edith.
The future of humanity does not lie solely in the hands of great leaders, the great powers and the elites. It is fundamentally in the hands of peoples and in their ability to organize. It is in their hands, which can guide with humility and conviction this process of change. I am with you. Each of us, let repeat from the heart: no family without lodging, no rural worker without land, no laborer without rights, no people without sovereignty, no individual without dignity, no child without childhood, no young person without a future, no elderly person without a venerable old age.
Pope Francis, Address at the World Meeting of Popular Movements, Bolivia
Mission & Identity
The belief that those who are directly affected by unjust systems and structures have the best insight into knowing how to change them is central to CCHD. CCHD works to break the cycle of poverty by helping low-income people participate in decisions that affect their lives, families and communities. CCHD offers a hand up, not a hand out.
Read more about CCHD's Mission & Identity.CCHD in the News
Raising the Wage in New York CityIn the New York Times, the folks who wait our tables just got a raise thanks to the work of CCHD supported ROC NYC.
"I will not be bullied..."
Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces responds to those who would unfairly suggest that one CCHD group is guilty by association and compromise the Church's legitimate work of social justice.
Native Americans Get Long Overdue Recognition
CCHD supported Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation was instrumental in getting Oglala Lakota County finally on the map.
Bishop Soto Visits Saint Louis Immigrant Community
CCHD chairman Bishop Jaime Soto recently spoke on the topic of immigration during a guest lecture in St. Louis and visited with leaders from CCHD supported Latinos en Axion.
Faith Based Organizing Says No to Payday Lending
Deseret News looks at how faith communities and community organizing groups, including Metropolitan Congregations United, are tackling payday lending.
Bishop Kicanas Tells Congress: Stop Treating Immigrants as Less than Human
Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, a member of the Subcommittee on CCHD, recently testified before Congress on behalf of immigrants.
CCHD Working on the Margins - Highlights
Environmental Justice
Learn how CCHD is helping communities support environmental justice. Since 2013, CCHD has invested nearly $2.5 million and partnered with over 35 community-based organizations and 31 dioceses in 22 states to support environmental justice.
Justice for Immigrants
In 2014, CCHD invested over $4 million to empower immigrant communities.
Strategic National Grants 2014
Check our this year's strategic national grantees, tackling Catholic education, a voice for the Mexico-US border, affordable housing, immigration reform, leadership development for farmworker communities and more.
2014-15 Grantees
CCHD has awarded over $14 million to community groups working nationwide to overcome poverty and injustice. Take a look!
Tools & Resources
Video Library
Visit CCHD's Video Library to see the Poverty Tour and other informational videos.
Basic information on CCHD | En Español
Economic Development
CCHD Economic Development Brochure | En Español
What is CCHD?
Handout: The Gospel in Action | En Español
Review and Renewal
Information on the Review and Renewal of CCHD and the Truth About CCHD
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