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Hunger grows in one of America’s wealthiest counties
Story - April 24, 2020 - Even in a county long acknowledged as one of the 20 wealthiest in the United States, there are people at risk of going hungry. Only now there are more of them. It used to be that the Catholic Charities Family Center in Montgomery County, Maryland, would help about 150 people each week acquire enough food…
Catholic Charities of Southwest Louisiana in need of pantry donations
Story - March 30, 2020 - With stay-at-home orders limiting church gatherings, Catholic Charities of Southwest Louisiana is in dire need of donated canned goods for its food pantry. Traditionally, church parishes host food drives for the charity during Lent, but without public Masses the pantry is running low. “We are currently very short on our donated items and the demand…
Philly food distribution effort eases burden of hunger
Story - May 25, 2020 - For Philadelphia resident Tracey Trapp, the coronavirus pandemic has been a time of “waiting for the other shoe to drop.” An industrial dry cleaner from the city’s Harrowgate section, Trapp and his wife, a caretaker, have both just lost their jobs. A loved one recently died of COVID-19; Trapp prays his adult son, who survived…
Pantry Manager
Job - April 11, 2024 - Primary Office: 4725A Eisenhower Ave, Alexandria, VA 22304 Hours per Week: 40 Staff Supervisor: SLP Program Director (PD) *Telework Available: On site required Exempt annual Salary: $47,861- $50,380 Position Description: The St. Lucy Food Project Pantry Manager is responsible for organization’s operational leader, overseeing all of the day-to-day logistics that are essential to the pantry’s…
CCUSA on front lines as hunger increases
Story - April 13, 2020 - Feeding the hungry — one of the Works of Mercy described by Jesus in Matthew 25 — unfolds every day in the outreach of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington. But with the coronavirus outbreak and the resulting financial crisis impacting many individuals and families, the agency has seen a dramatic growth in the…
CCUSA letter on FY23 Senate agriculture appropriations
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2022/06/08/letter-on-fy23-senate-agriculture-appropriations/
News - June 8, 2022 - The Honorable Tammy Baldwin, Chair Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable John Hoeven, Ranking Member Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Chair…
CCUSA letter to Congress on increased funding for USDA programs
News - July 19, 2021 - United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Representative: We write on behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committees on Domestic Justice and Human Development and International Justice and Peace, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Relief Services, and Catholic Rural Life. Our Catholic organizations work with Congress every year on a range…
CCUSA sends letter to Senate on increased funding for USDA programs
News - July 19, 2021 - The Honorable Patrick Leahy, ChairmanCommittee on AppropriationsUnited States SenateWashington, DC 20510 The Honorable Richard Shelby, Vice ChairmanCommittee on AppropriationsUnited States SenateWashington, DC 20510 Dear Chairman Leahy and Vice Chairman Shelby: We write on behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committees on Domestic Justice and Human Development and International Justice and Peace, Catholic…
Demand up ‘tenfold’ for help in one New Jersey diocese
Story - July 17, 2020 - The director of food pantries for Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Paterson said the number of people coming for food “is just staggering.” “Throughout the last three months, we have helped more people than any time before in our 80-year history,” Carlos Roldan said in a statement July 13. Catholic Charities, based in Clifton,…
Local businesses and FeedMore of Western New York share their excess
Story - April 14, 2020 - Yesterday, Catholic Charities food pantry staff, as well as employees from its Workforce and Education and Immigration and Refugee Assistance Program, pitched in to pick up and sort eggs, pastries, vegetables, fruit and more for distribution to the agency’s nine food pantries in three counties (Erie, Cattaraugus and Allegany). More than 500 dozen eggs and…
Dioceses scramble to feed the poor at their door
Story - April 24, 2020 - From one end of the country to the other, dioceses and Catholic charitable agencies are coming up with ingenious solutions to meet growing hunger in their communities. The Archdiocese of San Francisco started a grocery delivery service and hotline in early April. Within two weeks, 14 parishes had signed on with parishioners committed to help…
Update from J. Antonio Fernandez of Catholic Charities San Antonio
Story - March 23, 2020 - Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of San Antonio’s (CCAOSA) mobile unit, called HOPE, deployed the week of March 16, 2020, to help those experiencing homelessness. Meanwhile FAITH, CCAOSA’s shower truck and washing machine unit, stands ready to be sent where it is needed. CCAOSA’s food pantries helped more people during the week of March 16 than they…