 | Catholic Campaign For Human Development
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is the U.S. Bishops' poverty program whose aim is to break the cycle of poverty in the United States. For more than thirty years, CCHD has funded programs that empower poverty and non-poverty groups to work together to find ways to break the poverty cycle.
CCHD receives its funds from the annual collections that are taken up in all Catholic parishes in the United States in November. Twenty-five percent of the collection remains within the diocese to fund projects that enable local groups to address ways to break the local poverty cycle. Seventy-five percent of the collection is sent to the National Office in Washington, D.C. to support poor and low-income self-help groups in their efforts to address the root causes of their poverty condition and work to change the situation.
National CCHD pre-applications for grants must be filed by November 1 of each year. If the pre-application is approved, the full application must be filed no later than January 31. Grants are approved in June of the application year. You can access the national Catholic Campaign for Human Development website at www.usccb.org/cchd.
For more information on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development in the Diocese of Greensburg, please contact Mary Ellen Pellegrino at 724-837-1840, ext. 505. |