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Highlights from CCUSA

Special Mass of Thanksgiving celebrating Catholic Charities' 110
years of responding to the needs of people across US

On Friday, September 25 at 2:30 pm EDT, the Mass will begin with a
welcome from Sister Donna Markham OP, President and CEO of Catholic
Charities USA, followed by a message from Cardinal Luis Tagle,
President Caritas Internationalis. A Mass, celebrated by Bishop Frank
Dewane, Diocese of Venice, Florida, and Episcopal Liaison to Catholic
Charities USA will broadcast from Epiphany Cathedral. The events can
be streamed live on the following links: Facebook and YouTube. We look
forward to having you join us as we mark 110 years of work to reduce
poverty in America. Blessings from all of us at Catholic Charities.
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CCUSA affordable housing institute

The Housing Institute will be an opportunity for members of the
Housing Community of Practice to provide input on goals and an agenda
for the next year. The Institute will also feature affordable housing
project presentations where attendees can learn about project
structures and discuss project financing needs. Finally, the Institute
will conclude with peer-to-peer breakout sessions where members
seeking project consultations will be matched with experienced member
agency developers. Register here.
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2020 AIDE is Virtual - Registration is Now Open

Join your fellow Disaster practitioners and network experts for three
days of education, networking, and fun as we bring together the
Applied Institute for Disaster Excellence as a free virtual lite
training. Participating in AIDE Lite is one of the best ways to be in
the "know" about disaster response and recovery best practices,
particularly when coupled with responding to the pandemic and
systematic racism that has led to widespread community unrest. Click
here to register.
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Check out CCUSA's new podcast "Charities at Work"

CCUSA has a new podcast: "Charities at Work." It can be accessed
on the CCUSA website as well as the following podcast platforms:
Google Podcasts, iTunes, and Spotify. "Charities at Work"
will focus on the work and mission of the Catholic Charities ministry
in the United States, both the national office (CCUSA) and local
agencies. Topics regarding the Catholic faith in general will also be
featured. The first seven episodes of "Charities at Work"
will explore the seven themes of Catholic Social Teaching as outlined
by the USCCB: 1. Life and Dignity of the Human Person; 2. Solidarity;
3. Care for Creation; 4. Call to Family, Community, and Participation;
5. Option for the Poor and Vulnerable; 6. Rights and Responsibilities;
and 7. The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers. See the CCUSA
website for more information on each episode and the guest speakers.

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Events and Webinars

CCUSA Innovation Challenge - Awardees Announcement Show

Join us for a webinar on Sep 22, 2020 at 3:00 PM EDT
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. We've reached the exciting conclusion to our CCUSA Innovation
Challenge; one that began a year ago in Albuquerque, NM where we asked
our member agencies to propose an innovative way toward alleviating,
reducing or eliminating poverty. Our nine finalists presented their
"Big Idea"and after voting by you and our esteemed panel
of judges, we're excited to share the three awardees who will
share equally in the $1 million award. Join us as Sister Donna Markham
OP, President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, announces the three
awardees of the Innovation Challenge! Register here. After
registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the webinar.
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Social Enterprise Initiatives

Not able to rely on traditional funding sources, Catholic Charities of
Acadiana developed alternative revenue programs including a Catholic
bookstore. In this session CCA will share its journey from non-profit
to small business owner in the interest of income diversification, and
help you evaluate if there are opportunities for you. You will
identify examples of social enterprise and charitable revenue
generators that could provide alternative income to support programs
outside of government or donor funding. You will apply practical
experience in assessing an investment in an enterprise, create a
vision and establish a ROI. Additionally, you will be able to evaluate
the value of an enterprise of this nature beyond financial factors.
NOTE: This webinar offers 1.0 Continuing Education Credit. Course
completion requirements - To earn CE credit, participants must log in
at the scheduled time, attend the webinar and complete an online
course evaluation and CEC post-test. The post-test survey will
close 7 days after you receive the link to your email. CE
Certificates will be emailed within 10 business days of course
completion. Date: September 29, 2020. Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
EDT. Register here.
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Impact Investing and Social Enterprise

This webinar is an introduction to impact investing in the context of
Catholic Charities agency programming. Join us to explore the basic
concepts, examples from Catholic organizations, relevance in different
sectors with a focus on Social Enterprise, and resources available
locally and from CCUSA. The presentation includes content to create a
common definition of impact investing, identify program areas where
impact investing could be useful, and explore additional resources for
your agency. NOTE: This webinar offers 1.0 Continuing Education
Credit. Course completion requirements - To earn CE credit,
participants must log in at the scheduled time, attend the webinar and
complete an online course evaluation and CEC post-test. The post-test
survey will close 7 days after you receive the link to your email. CE
Certificates will be emailed within 10 business days of course
completion. Date: October 1 Time: 2pm-3pm EDT. Register here.
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Working with those impacted by incarceration webinar

The workshop will highlight two approaches that support families
impacted by incarceration. 1) A prison ministry model that works
across rural Iowa utilizing volunteers who serve as mentors via Circle
of Support group. Additionally, highlighted is the role of restorative
justice in their work. 2) Catholic Charities New Orleans has an
innovation public/private partnership with the Plaquemines Parish Jail
and other community partners allowing staff to work, pre-lease that
supports housing and employment. Join our presenters to scan some of
the network's ministries to those impacted by incarceration.
Date: Oct. 13, 2020, at 3:00 PM EDT. Register here.
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on how to help people receive
stimulus payments

On Monday, September 14, CBPP launched a final 30-day push to help
eligible people get their stimulus payments. People who were excluded
from automatic delivery of payments must sign up by
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October 15 to get their money this year. Here are resources that can
support stimulus outreach efforts during these final 30 days:

* 30 Day Outreach Plan - includes weekly suggested remote
and in-person outreach strategies

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* Outreach Tips to Assist People Experiencing Homelessness with
Stimulus Payments

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* Guide to completing the IRS Non-filer Form in English and
Spanish

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* CFPB's Guide for intermediary organizations to help people
get Economic Impact Payments

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* Code for America's mobile-friendly Get Your Refund Service
- uses IRS-certified volunteers to help people get their
stimulus payment for free
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* United Way's 211 Economic Impact Payment Helpline
(1-844-322-3639) - helps people complete the IRS Non-filer
form and answers questions about the stimulus
* State Agency Outreach Toolkit - includes templates for
online and print outreach that can be adapted by anyone for use
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* Stimulus Outreach Hub - find links to all resources
mentioned (plus more) in one place
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We ask that you encourage your network to contribute to stimulus
outreach efforts during these final weeks. Here are 3 ways they can
get directly get involved:

1. Assist - Ask people questions to help complete the IRS
non-filer form on their behalf
2. Refer - Identify local places to direct people to for
in-person assistance
3. Notify - Share information about the October 15 deadline,
basic eligibility, the Get Your Refund service,
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and the 211 EIP Helpline as resources for help

Those who don't work directly with people can share on social
media and through personal networks about the October 15 deadline and
the available stimulus outreach resources. Know that our collective
outreach efforts are making a difference! On June 23, CBPP released a
paper estimating that the non-filer population included 12 million
people. On September 8, the IRS shared that more than 7 million people
have used the online Non-filer form to sign up for their payments.

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PREPARES - CCUSA Innovation Challenge finalist

Join this webinar to learn about PREPARES, a Catholic Charities USA
Innovation Challenge finalist which presently engages over 500
volunteers from 159 parishes who have served 12,000 families. This
parish-based program engages a network of parish volunteers,
professional staff, and aligned programs to accompany pregnant and
parenting women, men, and families with children under five who live
in poverty and lack a healthy support network. PREPARES successfully
alleviates poverty, increases health care access, and protects
children at risk of abuse and neglect. Created by the bishops of
Washington state in 2013, funding from the USCCB and CCHD enabled
three state Catholic Charities agencies to begin implementation,
including Catholic Charities Eastern Washington as featured in this
webinar. Date: October 14, 2020, at 3 PM. Register here.
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CCUSA Webinar - How to Educate Your Staff: A Catholic Charities of St.
Louis Case Study

Date: Nov 11, 2020 at 3:00 PM EST. An overwhelming need in all
organizations is to provide professional development for staff on a
consistent basis. Catholic Charities of St. Louis embarked on a
journey to meet that need in a coordinative fashion by creating the
Federation Training Program. This program provides professional
development to staff at all levels in clinical topics, management
development, personal enrichment, and safety on an ongoing basis. This
presentation will describe the evolution of this program, demonstrate
the resources used, the multi-level evaluation processes applied, and
the performance improvements to elevate this initiative on an ongoing
basis. Finally, the presentation will also include the results of a
comprehensive analysis to monetize the value of these trainings and
discuss how these concepts can be applied in the audiences'
organizations.  Register here.
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Catalyst Kitchens 2020 National Summit

Catalyst Kitchens by FareStart has worked with CCUSA and several
member agencies over the years. Its program development model features
1) Empowerment through job training, 2) Sustainability through social
enterprise and 3) Collaboration through community engagement. Next
month any interested CCUSA agency representatives are invited to the
Catalyst Kitchens 2020 National Summit, a free virtual event for those
interested in workforce development, social enterprise, and developing
solutions that will help to alleviate poverty and joblessness during
COVID-19. This virtual conference is designed to bring together
practitioners from across culinary job training programs and the
broader industry to problem solve for our challenges in 2020,
including increased emergency meals demands, adapting to virtual
culinary training, and building anti-racist internal policies. This
event is radically accessible this year in a virtual platform and free
to all. If you have questions, reach out to Steve Bogus at CCUSA. To
get more information or to register go here.
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Grant Opportunities and Resources

Grant Opportunity - CCUSA Financial Education AmeriCorps Program

CCUSA is currently looking for additional grantee(s) for the Financial
Education AmeriCorps program to fulfill one full time slot or one half
time slot or both a full time and half time slot! The AmeriCorps
members in this program will use the FDIC Money Smart curriculum to
educate clients of all ages on how to enhance their financial skills
and create positive banking relationships. This program will help
clients improve financial literacy and navigate financial decisions
more efficiently.  If your agency is interested in hosting an
AmeriCorps member to serve in your community, please reach out to
Teiara Turner at [email protected].

Request for information to solicit public input regarding economic
mobility

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Secretary
issued a request for information to solicit public input regarding
economic mobility. This information will be used to inform the
priorities of a federal interagency Council on Economic Mobility
(Council). The Council is interested in feedback that provides insight
to how the Council can promote economic mobility, recovery, and
resilience. The Catholic Charities USA Social Policy team is working
to coordinate a response from the Catholic Charities network. To
assist with this effort, we ask that you complete a brief survey by
COB September 25. Link to brief survey. If you have questions, please
contact Lucreda Cobbs, senior director policy and legislative at
[email protected].

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Learn Spanish at the Esperanza Center, Catholic Charities of
Baltimore, this Fall!

All 10-week autumn classes are online and begin the week of September
28. We will be offering 1A (Beginning), 1B (Beginning with some
Spanish) and 2A (beginner-mid, early conversational). We offer morning
(10a-12p) as well as evening (6:30-8:30p) classes. The cost of the 10
weeks is $150; please note that your registration is considered a
donation that helps support the Educational Services Programs at
Esperanza. A link to the ZOOM class will be sent the week prior to the
class. Registration links for morning classes: Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays. Registration links for evening classes: Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays.

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Create a culture of healthy eating

Nutrition is at the root of much of the ill health of the poor, and
the importance of underlying health conditions has been brought home
at tragic levels through COVID-19. For 80 years, Edmundite MIssions
has served Selma, Alabama, the poorest city in the poorest county in
one of the poorest states in the nation. In a year of effort, the
Missions has shown how to combine food provision and improved
nutrition in extremely poor populations not only to walk the talk of
the nutritional value of its work in measurable ways, but also to
create nutrition advocates among its young, including the high school
football team, an Alabama icon. And all for pennies on the dollar. The
speaker is: Susan Raymond, Ph.D., Chief Innovation officer and Vice
President, Program Integration, Edmundite Missions, Selma, AL.
Register here.
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Sterling Volunteers offering FREE basic background checks to Catholic
Charities agencies

Sterling Volunteers, a valued Catholic Charities USA partner, is
extending a helping hand to our network to help safely mobilize
trusted volunteers around essential services during the COVID-19
pandemic. Sterling Volunteers is offering FREE Basic Background
Checks, along with reduced pricing for MVR's and other screening
packages (click here for full details). This COVID-19 special offering
has been extended through

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December 31, 2020. If interested, CLICK HERE to connect with Sterling
on this offering and any other specific needs.
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Please note, the special pricing is not retroactive nor automatic for
existing customers; please contact SV if you are interested in
utilizing the discounts.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau releases Financial inTuition
Podcast

We're excited to introduce our Financial inTuition Podcast. The
goal of the podcast is to educate, inform, and engage students,
parents, and practitioners with tools and resources created to help
them make more informed financial decisions. This podcast will help
listeners with tips and strategies to find their inner financial
intuition, one money topic at a time. We released the first three
episodes of the "Money Management Series" which focuses on
financing your future and how to pay for higher education, managing
money as a young adult, and understanding and protecting your credit.
Future episodes will cover managing and repaying student loans,
interviews from practitioners, real student loan borrowers and their
family members, and more. Please visit our podcast page to find out
more. Start listening.

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Veterans services professional interest LISTSERV signup

CCUSA is currently looking expand information and opportunities in the
Veterans Services program area. If you're interested in joining
this revamped professional interest section, be sure to sign up for
the Veterans Services Listserv to stay up to date on upcoming
trainings, webinars, funding opportunities and more! Sign up for the
Listserv here.

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Federal Grant Opportunity: Migrant and Seasonal Early Head Start
Expansion and Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Grants

In 1969, the Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) program was
established to provide services to the children of migrant
farmworkers. The program provides funds to grantees that offer Head
Start services to low-income, farm-worker families that migrate during
the harvest season to engage in agricultural labor. In 1998, language
was added to the Head Start Act that allowed migrant programs to serve
the children of low-income, seasonal farmworkers. Learn more here.
Application due 9/21/20.

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Federal Grant Opportunity: Early Head Start Expansion and Early Head
Start-Child Care Partnership Grants

New or existing Head Start, EHS, and EHS-CC Partnership grantees can
apply to use funding to partner with local child care, including
family child care providers to provide comprehensive, high-quality
services to eligible infants and toddlers through EHS-CC Partnerships.
These EHSCC Partnerships will enhance and support early learning
settings to provide full-day, full-year, comprehensive services that
meet the needs of low-income working families; enhance access to
high-quality, full-time child care; support the development of infants
and toddlers through strong relationship-based experiences; and
prepare them for the transition into preschool. EHSCC Partnerships
play an important role in the child care system by both expanding
high-quality early learning services to infants and toddlers and
applying resources and lessons learned from EHS to build the system's
capacity. Learn more here. Application due 9/21/20.
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Employment Opportunities

Catholic Charities job opportunities now listed on CCUSA website 

Anyone can view the job opportunities by clicking on the "Careers" tag
on the footer of the CCUSA webpage. To post a job opportunity, one
must be a member and have access to the members' portal in order to
fill out the submission form (click on "Careers" tag on members only
portal homepage). If you have any questions about the new job
opportunities submission form, please contact

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David Werning. Please click
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here to access job opportunities.
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CCUSA Photo Gallery

Did you know that one of the benefits CCUSA provides to member
agencies is access to a professional photo gallery? Visit our Flickr
photo pages to explore our albums and photos. If you would like a
high-resolution version for your agency's use, please
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email CCUSA with photo number.

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