2009 - 2010 CCHD Funded Groups Report
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development, founded in 1969, is the domestic antipoverty social justice program of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. When you support CCHD, you give hope to poor and low-income Americans struggling to build a better life. Your contribution supports self-help programs that give community members the chance they need to become self-sufficient. If you are interested in volunteering with one of these funded organizations, check out our updated Volunteer Resource Guide!
For further information about the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, please contact: Archdiocese of Cincinnati Catholic Social Action Office (513) 421-3131, ext. 2660 (Cincinnati), or (937) 224-3026 (Dayton) or csa@catholiccincinnati.org. Visit our national website, www.povertyusa.org.
National Grants
AMOS Project
As a congregation-based community organizing project in Cincinnati, AMOS develops grassroots
leaders to address economic and social injustices for the working poor through a broadening of its low-income membership base. AMOS’ priority issues include securing more employment opportunities and greater access to health care for low-income and minority workers.
Cincinnati Interfaith Worker Center
The Worker Center creates positive systemic change through education, empowerment and mobilization of day laborers and immigrant workers experiencing injustice in the workplace, including winning back hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages.
Contact Center
This project works for policy reform to promote kinship care in an effort to strengthen and support families as a necessary foundation of poverty education. The group also does work with the Ohio Empowerment Coalition to accomplish state and local policy reform.
Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center (IJPC) : Families That Matter
Families and loved ones of individuals who are facing the death penalty or have been executed have created a support network through this program, which also provides education and empowerment to mobilize against the use of the death penalty in Ohio.
Leaders for Equality and Action in Dayton (LEAD)
This congregation-based community organizing program in Dayton is securing the implementation of a Neighborhood Based Policing Program as well as addressing issues from its 2009 listening campaign, which includes transportation in Montgomery County, economic development, foreclosures, health care, and expanding its leadership base.
Local Grants
Communities United for Action: Environmental Justice and Youth Committee
CUFA will train Cincinnati youth in two low-income communities with job and neighborhood leadership skills. This Youth Committee will coordinate neighborhood beautification projects and increase environmental awareness among residents.
Contact Center: Over-the-Rhine Education in Public Schools
This project will develop a comprehensive improvement plan led by parents to engage teachers, the teachers union, students and the school administration at Rothenberg Elementary School in the low-income neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati.
Dream Builders Group, Inc.: Clubhouse-Teens in Training, TNT
Teens in Training, TNT programming was developed to empower at-risk 6th & 7th graders to become mentors to their younger peers. The TNT’s design and implement present and future programming through hands on learning-service trips and leadership activities for 2nd - 6th graders with limited opportunities.
Family Services of Middletown: Job Readiness Program
The Job Readiness Program will help individuals obtain jobs by gaining and improving their computer skills, setting basic life skills, obtaining their GED, and enrolling them in technical school or college.
Forging Responsible Youth : Make it Your Business
“Make It Your Business” is a new venture, designed to address poverty at its roots by providing youth in Springfield with the knowledge to start and run a small business.
Interfaith Business Builders : Retail Cooperative Planning and Development
A cooperative retail store to employ and benefit low-income people, opening July, 2010, will be located on or near the Xavier University campus. It will offer a range of products and services appropriate to the campus community.
Lower Price Hill Community School: GED Program
Educational goals will be achieved by supporting students in this low-income Cincinnati neighborhood through the preparation and completion of the GED diploma. Through these goals students will sustain long term employment and/or remain enrolled and actively participating in post-secondary education.
PowerNet of Dayton: Building Services: You Don’t Have to Move to Live in a Better Neighborhood
This project will provide both economic empowerment for persons with a felony record who have few
options in the current economy and help to change the attitudes and perceptions of the general
population about the potential value and contributions that persons formerly incarcerated can make within the community.
Think Tank: Clark County Circles
Low-income families in Springfield will be moved out of poverty permanently by involving struggling families, local community agencies and leaders, businesses, and middle and upper income volunteers who want to reach out across racial/economic boundaries to help their communities end poverty.
Wesley Community Center: Male Awareness
The Male Awareness program in Dayton offers a curriculum and mentoring to address barriers of
marginalized men that have prevented them from being self-sufficient. It equips men to tackle
substance abuse, addiction, entanglement with the criminal justice system, unemployment and low self-esteem.
West Eighth State Teen Council (West-C) : Youth Against Violence and Drugs
Youth in the Cincinnati community of Lower Price Hill will be empowered to apply critical thinking and problem-solving to addressing violence, drug use and low levels of academic achievement in their neighborhood.
Winton Hills Seniors Computer Project: First Step
Senior citizens in this Cincinnati community will develop basic computer skills that enable them to
better function in this technological age to enhance their self-sufficiency.
WIN Action Organizing Project: Citizens Against Loan Sharks / Saving the AmericanDream
Citizens Against Loan Sharks is working with a number of lenders and servicers to help modify
people’s loans and keep people in their homes. They are also working with these companies to have foreclosed properties turned back over to communities.