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Catholic Charities USA


Jesus preached the Gospel of the Kingdom
and cured every disease among the people. See Mt 4:23

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Highlights from CCUSA

Save the Date! Join us in San Diego for CCUSA's 2021 Annual Gathering!

When: Sept. 20-23, 2021. Where: Sheraton San Diego Hotel &
Marina. This past year of uncertainty has brought many changes,
and we especially miss the opportunity for fellowship, learning and
sharing best practices. We are excited to come together in the new
year and see one another for an amazing event! Mark your calendars and
stay tuned for more details!

Daily Lenten reflections from CCUSA

Ash Wednesday, February 17, marks the beginning of Lent. Once again,
CCUSA will offer daily reflections on each day's Mass readings,
authored by Catholic Charities employees and other social concerns
ministers. The reflections will arrive by email first thing each
morning. Sign up here to receive them.

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Current issue of Charities USA magazine online

The current issue of Charities USA (Volume 48, Number 1) considers the
work of Catholic Charities agencies and CCUSA in providing food
security during the pandemic for individuals and communities. Be sure
to check out the stories about getting a crop of potatoes to people in
need in New England, a new food pantry in southeast Texas, providing
seeds to refugees, a SNAP story, and more! Read here.

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Catholic Charities USA Launches the 2021 National Volunteer of
the Year Award Nomination Process

Over 13 million individuals received services from Catholic Charities
agencies across the country in 2019 with the help, commitment, and
compassion of over 300,000 volunteers. The Volunteer of the Year Award
recognizes this impact and honors one an individual who embodies the
mission of CCUSA, demonstrates real impact, and reflects an innovative
approach to help those in poverty.  Honor your all-star volunteer
and nominate them for this prestigious honor!  The finalists of
the 2021 National Volunteer of the Year award will be profiled in the
next issue of CCUSA's magazine, Charities USA, and the winner will be
profiled in the following issue of Charities USA and on CCUSA's
social media pages. The deadline for all nominations is Friday, March
5, 2021. Finalists will be notified the week of March 15-19, 2021.
 Submit your nomination here! For more any questions about the
nomination process, please contact [email protected].
 
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Events and Webinars

Register for Food and Job Training Readiness Workshop
- ***REGISTRATION CLOSES, COB --- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3***

Tuesday, Feb. 9, Tuesday, Mar. 9 and Tuesday Apr. 13, 2021 (3 Sessions
- Must attend all) Join us for a virtual event sponsored by
CCUSA and presented by FareStart's Catalyst Kitchens. The entire
program includes 3, 3-hour sessions. The training, exclusively for
Catholic Charities member agencies, will help you evaluate whether
incorporating job training into food service programs is a useful
addition to improve kitchen operations and to create new job
opportunities for clients. The workshop will improve your food service
even if you decide not to add a workforce training component. There is
a modest fee for the 3-session training (9 hours), and the fee is
discount because of CCUSA's sponsorship. Space is limited.
Questions about whether this program is a fit for your kitchen?
Contact Steve Bogus. Ready to register? Click here.
[email protected]
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Lessons on Self-Care from a Trauma-Informed Perspective - For Social
Service Providers, Teachers, and Childcare Professionals

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is stressful. Fear and anxiety about a
disease can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions in adults and
children. Join CCUSA to raise awareness about symptoms of vicarious
trauma in social service staff, teachers, and childcare professionals,
trying to stay resilient during this difficult time. We will address
important ways to practice self-care to maintain our health. Our team
will advise on how to prevent and deal with stress and how to cope
with emotions that will make you, the people you care about, and your
community stronger. 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: Feb. 16, 2021. Time: 3 PM ET. Register here.
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Public Forum: CCUSA Poverty and Racism Paper

In a response to events in 2020, CCUSA rewrote its 2008 Poverty and
Racism paper and developed a facilitation guide on racial justice and
anti-racist work for Diocesan Directors of Catholic Charities. Please
join us for a conversation about the best way for Catholic Charities
agencies to conduct anti-racist programming in our communities.
Date: Feb. 18, 2021. Time: 2 PM
EST. Register here.
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Strengthening 2Gen approaches through listening, engaging, and
designing with families

Join our experts for a webinar where participants will engage in peer
learning to develop and strengthen understanding of a Whole Family
Approach (WFA). Additionally, we will focus on ways to become centered
in key WFA concepts like racial equity, engaging and listening to
families, and attending to system and policy changes that support
parents and children. We will address how engaging and listening to
customers can strengthen program design and build buy-in internally
and externally while exploring multiple ways to connect organizations
shifting to a Whole Family Approach (WFA). Date: Feb. 24, 2021 at 2:00
PM EST. Register here.
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WIC 101 Webinar - A Presentation for Catholic Charities Agencies

Join us for a webinar to explore the Special Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Join our experts to
learn more about one of the nation's premier public health
nutrition program providing nutrition education, breastfeeding
support, referral to health and social services, and supplemental
foods to the nation's low-income women, infants, and children
through age 5. Across the United States, in urban and rural areas,
WIC's time-limited services and benefits ensure that children
get a strong, healthy start in life. There is clear evidence that good
nutrition during pregnancy and in the first few years of life has
long-term, positive impacts on health. When children have a healthy
start, their prospects, and America's prospects, are brighter.
With historically strong bipartisan support and clear evidence
demonstrating how WIC is both efficient and effective at improving the
health of low-income women, infants, and children, WIC ensures the
future health and safety of millions of Americans. Date March 08, 2021
at 3:00 PM EST. Register here.
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Grant Opportunities and Resources

Grant opportunity: CCUSA AmeriCorps VISTA program's request for
proposals

CCUSA is taking applications for our Family Strengthening AmeriCorps
VISTA program! The Family Strengthening program funds one-year
AmeriCorps VISTA positions, which support Catholic Charities' programs
through indirect activities, capacity building activities, such as
fundraising and resource development, communications and social media,
outreach, partnership building, volunteer management, and parish
outreach, and much more! On January 28, CCUSA held a webinar
(recording, slides) giving an overview of the VISTA program and the
application process, highlighting sub-grantee expectations, estimated
costs, and allowable activities. The application is due
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Friday, February 26 with a program start date of summer 2021. Please
contact Sarah Hendley with any questions.
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The Foundation for Financial Planning grant opportunity

The Foundation for Financial Planning is accepting grant applications
(until April 30th, 2021) from nonprofit organizations whose programs
link pro bono financial planners to people in need. Programs should
include one-on-one engagements between Certified Financial
Planner(TM) (CFP®) professionals and pro bono clients, and
comply with COVID-19 safety guidelines. Grants are generally in the
range of $5,000 to $40,000. For more information about eligibility and
how to apply, please visit here. Nonprofits seeking to connect with
CFP professionals who want to provide free, no-strings-attached
financial planning and advice to underserved populations can register
on FFP's Pro Bono Planner Match website. On Pro Bono Planner
Match, nonprofits can post volunteer opportunities that engage
financial planners in one-on-one or interactive, small group (virtual)
sessions with people in need. To access Pro Bono Planner Match, click
here. For more information, please contact Rachel Roth.
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Major Support for Solutions Addressing Issues Facing Disadvantaged
Communities

The Andrew Family Foundation seeks to partner with one or more
nonprofit organizations in the United States offering creative
solutions that address issues facing under-resourced communities as
well as the protection and preservation of the natural environment in
which they live. The Foundation seeks to support one or more
organizations focused on alleviating disparities in food access,
affordable housing, high quality education, physical and psychological
healthcare, and/or criminal justice. Preference will be given to
organizations whose programming is intersectional, alleviating these
disparities while demonstrating an interest to conserve our planet's
natural resources and promote environmental sustainability. The
Foundation will award grant(s) of up to $600,000 to be paid over a
three-year period. The annual program budget for applying
organizations should be $1 million to $4 million. Letters of inquiry
are due by
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March 15, 2021; the deadline for invited full proposals is May 1,
2021. To review the full request for proposal and to submit a letter
of inquiry, please visit the Foundation's webpage.
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Direct Service Programs for Traumatized Children Funded

The Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation Children's Initiative provides
support to direct service programs throughout the United States that
promote resilience, stability, and pyscho-social health for youth ages
14 to 21 who have been traumatized by Adverse Childhood Experiences
(ACEs). Eligible programs must directly serve youth who have been
significantly traumatized by ACEs, offer age-appropriate therapeutic
interventions, provide services that go beyond crisis intervention,
include a plan for evaluating program effectiveness, enhance the
relationship between the child and at least one significant adult, be
a new program or a new therapeutic component to an existing program,
and use trauma informed practices. The average grant size is $30,000
or less. The deadline for Stage One Applications is
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March 1, 2021; invited Stage Two Applications will be due by August 1,
2021. Visit the Foundation's website to learn more about the funding
guidelines and application process.

Grants Promote Youth Justice Efforts

The Visionary Freedom Fund, administered by the Andrus Family Fund,
seeks to ensure that Black, Brown, and Indigenous (BIPOC) youth
impacted by the youth justice system on the frontlines have the
resources, capacities, infrastructure, and relationships they need to
develop and implement inspiring long-term, visionary change in their
communities. Grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 will support
organizations where leadership is impacted by the carceral state,
criminal legal system, and/or systems of criminalization. Applying
organizations must have young people in decision-making leadership
roles. General operating grants are provided, with an emphasis on
funding for organizations that are often left out of traditional
philanthropic giving. The application deadline is
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February 26, 2021. The request for proposals is available on the
Andrus Family Fund's website.

Spread the word on how to access the recent Economic Income payment -
particularly for those that are unbanked

The Treasury Department and the IRS are issuing millions of second
Economic Impact Payments by prepaid debit card to speed delivery of
the payments to as many people as possible. If the
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Get My Payment
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tool on IRS.gov shows a date that a recipient's payment was mailed,
they should watch their mail for either a paper check or debit card.
The debit cards arrive in a white envelope that prominently displays
the U.S. Department of the Treasury seal. The prepaid debit card,
called the Economic Impact Payment card, is issued by Treasury's
financial agent, MetaBank, N.A. The IRS does not determine who
receives a card. The form of payment for the second mailed EIP may be
different than the first mailed EIP. Some people who received a paper
check last time might receive a prepaid debit card this time, and some
people who received a prepaid debit card last time may receive a paper
check. People should watch their mail carefully; EIP Cards are being
sent in a white envelope that prominently displays the U.S. Department
of the Treasury seal. The envelope states "Not a bill or an
advertisement. Important information about your Economic Impact
Payment." The EIP Card has the Visa name on the front of the card and
the issuing bank name, MetaBank, N.A. on the back. Each mailing will
include instructions on how to securely activate and use the EIP Card.
These cards are being issued to eligible recipients across all 50
states and the District of Columbia. Residents of the western United
States are generally more likely to receive an EIP Card. People can
check the status of their payment using the Get My Payment
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tool on IRS.gov. For more information: EIP debit cards  Economic
Impact Payments 
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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 David Werning.
Please click 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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