HELP US DOUBLE OUR IMPACT
With your help, we can raise $200,000 on #NTXGivingDay.
North Texas Giving Day is September 23! This year, we have an incredible opportunity to double our impact. Due to the generosity of an anonymous donor, every gift to CCFW will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $100,000!
This means, we can raise $200,000 in the next few weeks. Help us get there by joining one of our Pathways to Giving Day:
– Donate! You can give early, starting September 1.
– Create a FUNdraising page! Share with your networks and help us reach new audiences. Get started here.
– Engage with us on social media! Share our posts, join our Facebook event page, and use our custom Facebook profile frame.
At Catholic Charities Fort Worth, we see multiple pathways to success. We have learned that the best way to create lasting impact is to tune into each client’s experience with poverty. And to build flexibility and creativity into our programs. Every person we serve is at a different point in their journey, so we meet them where they are and let them define the path forward.
Every gift to Catholic Charities is an investment in someone’s pathway, in a life free from poverty. It may be a single mother’s pathway to a college degree. It may be a refugee’s journey to stability in their new home. It may be your neighbor’s search for reliable transportation.
Each pathway is different, but each equally important in not only lifting families out of poverty but also preventing poverty in many forms. Building resilience, breaking cycles, and transforming families for years to come.
Click Below To Read Our Response to Afghanistan and Learn How to Help
Texas Rent Relief Program
Applications still open!
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs announced this week a new rent and utilities relief program to provide $1 billion of assistance to families in need as a result of COVID-19! The Texas Rent Relief Program launches Monday, February 15 at 8 AM (CST). You can apply online at TexasRentRelief.com or by phone at 1-833-9TX-RENT (1-833-989-7368). Phone has multiple language options. The program can help renters with bills as far back as March 13, 2020.
Applicants do NOT need to apply through CCFW! The only way to apply is through TDHCA, either online or by phone. Visit their website in advance to prepare to apply on Monday at 8 AM!
¡El Departamento de Vivienda y Asuntos Comunitarios de Texas anunció esta semana un nuevo programa de alivio de renta y servicios públicos para proporcionar one mil millones de asistencia a las familias necesitadas como resultado de COVID-19! El Texas Rent Relief Program se lanza el lunes 15 de febrero a las 8 AM (CST). Puede solicitar en línea en TexasRentRelief.com o por teléfono al 1-833-9TX-RENT (1-833-989-7368). El teléfono tiene varias opciones de idioma. El programa puede ayudar a los inquilinos con cuentas desde el 13 de marzo de 2020. ¡Los solicitantes NO necesitan solicitar a través de CCFW! La única manera de aplicar es a través de TDHCA, ya sea en línea o por teléfono. ¡Visita TexasRentRelief.com con antelación para prepararte para aplicar el lunes a las 8 AM!
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ABOUT US
Catholic Charities Fort Worth (CCFW) is a learning organization that believes every person should have the opportunity to live their best life, free from poverty. Founded in 1910, CCFW works every day to make this vision a reality, serving tens of thousands of people in North Texas, and across the nation, each year. CCFW is rooted in Catholic Social Teaching and reflects these values through our client-centered approach and commitment to ensuring our practices meaningfully impact the lives of those we serve.
We strategically challenge the way poverty is addressed nationwide by creating solutions to meet the evolving needs of our community, eradicating the barriers keeping people in poverty, and transforming the narrative around poverty through advocacy and collaboration. To learn more about our unique approach, register for one of our virtual KNOW Poverty Hours here.
Our Mission is to provide service to those in need, to advocate compassion and justice in the structures of society, and to call all people of good will to do the same.
We Need to Know. Not Assume.
Learn more about our commitment to research and evaluation.
Creating Lasting Impact.
See the ways we have been able to impact the lives of those we serve and our community.
Join Us for KNOW Poverty
Sign up for a virtual KNOW Poverty Hour for a behind-the-scenes look at how we are ending poverty, one family at a time.
OUR COMMUNITY
We serve tens of thousands of individuals and families in our 28-county diocese each year.
WE CREATE LASTING IMPACT
We measure success by end-goal impact, but we recognize the end goal looks different for each client.
That’s why we have developed a multidimensional framework to capture the complexity of poverty and better tailor our services to clients’ needs. These are our Out of Poverty Pathways:
Financial Resiliency
Educational Credentials
Employment
Resource Stability
Emotional Resiliency
Learn more about our Out of Poverty Pathways here.
OUR PARTNERS
IN THE NEWS
Difficulty paying rent? You’re not alone as many in Fort Worth encounter rising costs
Marquita Solomon was worried about how to pay her rent after she was laid off because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Solomon, 38, had trouble getting unemployment benefits and then had to stay home to help the oldest of her two children with virtual schooling. It was a...
HTH: Catholic Charities seeks public help in mission to end poverty across Texoma
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — For more than 100 years Catholic Charities Fort Worth has been empowering low-income families and non-traditional college students to work toward a stable future. One client is sharing her first-hand experience to urge community members to...
Poverty Meets Its Match
Check out this special feature of Padua in North Texas Catholic!
How North Texans Can Help Afghan Refugees Settling In Dallas-Fort Worth
KERA News: "Local refugee resettlement agencies are helping Afghans who recently arrived in North Texas and offer ways the public can help too. Several North Texas organizations have been helping resettle hundreds of Afghans who’ve recently arrived in the U.S....
Juggling work and college, Fort Worth area moms refused to let COVID derail their plans
“To get through school, to secure something for my family to have a brighter future, I see that starting with me,” she said. “I can see myself having a steady job even with my associate’s.” Photo: Amanda McCoy / Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Feel hopeless about Afghanistan? Here’s how you can help refugees coming to Fort Worth
Fort Worth Star-Telegram – “In August, we received 14 Afghans and have 11 coming this week so far,” Demers said. “These 25 clients are part of the airlifted families that arrived in Fort Lee, Virginia. We have also verified an additional 20 clients but do not have...
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