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CCHD Grants Program Overview
When the Catholic bishops of the United States established the Campaign for Human Development in 1970, they mandated the Campaign fund "such projects as voter registration, community organizations, community-run schools, minority-owned cooperatives and credit unions, capital for industrial development and job training programs, and setting up of rural cooperatives." Today, CCHD can point to hundreds of CCHD-funded organizations which have grown to extend great influence in their communities. Annual CCHD contributions to support community organizing groups are made possible by Catholics throughout the United States who contribute to CCHD each year. As Catholics, we do this because we strongly believe all people are made in the image and likeness of God, and so all life, from conception until natural death, must be respected. To qualify for CCHD funds, applicants must not promote, in any way, activities that violate the dignity of the human person. CCHD is committed to supporting groups of low-income individuals as they work to break the cycle of poverty and improve their communities.
CCHD has two grant programs:
CCHD Community development grant amounts range between $25,000 and $75,000. Community Development grants support efforts that demonstrate a commitment to the dignity of the human person. CCHD-funded groups are led by people living in poverty and work to address the root causes of poverty by nurturing solidarity between the poor and non-poor and facilitating the participation of people living in poverty in decisions that perpetuate poverty in their lives. As part of such efforts, low-income people gain the ability to identify barriers, brainstorm solutions, and take action to change problematic structures and systems in their communities.
Please note, CCHD requires that community development initiatives take a three-year break in funding after receiving six years of support. Contact your Grants Specialist to determine your organization’s eligibility to apply for the 2011-2012 grant cycle. Please review the Community Development grant policies, criteria, and guidelines carefully.
For a general overview of the grants process, please visit Grants Process and Timeline.
CCHD Economic Development grant amounts range between $25,000 and $75,000. CCHD supports economic development initiatives that significantly include the voice of the poor and marginalized in developing new businesses that offer good jobs and/or develop assets that will be owned and enjoyed by local communities.
Please note, CCHD's Economic Development Program (EDP) maintains a three-year eligibility limit. CCHD will grant a maximum of three years of support to an Economic Development Institution (EDI). These years need not be sequential.
For detailed criteria and guidelines related to CCHD’s Economic Development grant program, see the Economic Development page. For a general overview of the grants process, please visit Grants Process and Timeline.
Recently Funded Initiatives
CCHD grants made to community- and faith-based organizations since 2004 are listed by year in the files below.Tips for searching these pdf documents
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Type in keywords for what you are looking for. For example, to find grants made in the Archdiocese of Phoenix, search for “Phoenix”. Use terms like “education” or “housing” to find grants applied to specific program areas.
2010 CCHD Grantees (pdf) – Awarded July 1, 2010– June 1, 2011
2009 CCHD Grantees (pdf) – Awarded July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010 (Pre Review & Renewal)
2008 CCHD Grantees (pdf) – Awarded July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009
2007 CCHD Grantees (pdf) – Awarded July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008
2006 CCHD Grantees (pdf) – Awarded July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007
2005 CCHD Grantees (pdf) – Awarded July 1, 2005 – June 30, 2006
2004 CCHD Grantees (pdf) – Awarded July 1, 2004 – June 30, 2005
Success Stories (narrative) of Organizations funded by CCHD
Positive signs in the contemporary world are the growing awareness of the solidarity of the poor among themselves, their efforts to support one another, and their public demonstrations on the social scene which, without recourse to violence, present their own needs and rights... By virtue of their own evangelical duty, the church feels called to take her stand beside the poor, to discern the justice of their requests, and to help satisfy them, without losing sight of the good of groups in the context of the common good (39).
Pope John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, no. 39 (1987)
Positive signs in the contemporary world are the growing awareness of the solidarity of the poor among themselves, their efforts to support one another, and their public demonstrations on the social scene which, without recourse to violence, present their own needs and rights... By virtue of their own evangelical duty, the church feels called to take her stand beside the poor, to discern the justice of their requests, and to help satisfy them, without losing sight of the good of groups in the context of the common good (39).
Pope John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, no. 39 (1987)