CCHD Newsletter: Helping People Help Themselves

CCHD's quarterly newsletter, Helping People Help Themselves, highlights a message from CCHD Director, Ralph McCloud and lifts up inspiring examples of the good work that CCHD funds. 

Bold Faith Leads to Bold Justice
by Beth Griffin
Helping People Help Themselves, Issue 1, 2012

In five short years, clergy from 20 congregations in southeast Florida have come together to engage thousands of low- to moderate income parishioners in successfully changing their communities for the better. They are Broward Organized Leaders Doing Justice, or BOLD Justice, and they are on a roll.

BOLD Justice is organized around the Direct Action and Research Training (DART) model, which brings together religious congregations to work on projects of common interest. The agenda is developed in a series of assemblies and listening sessions throughout the community.

With grant support from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), BOLD Justice has identified and surmounted local resistance to affordable rental housing and bridged administrative gaps that hampered access to unemployment funds.  Read full story in newsletter. 

Recent issues of Helping People Help Themselves:

Good Dog! Seven-year- old Business Gives its Employees a Hand Up
Helping People Help Themselves, Issue 4, 2011

Living Out Our Eucharistic Mission
Helping People Help Themselves, Issue 3, 2011

Community Organizing Fulfills Gospel Mandate  
Helping People Help Themselves, Issue 1, 2011

Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies, Healthy Communities 
Helping People Help Themselves, Issue 2, 2011

 

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