It’s hardly a surprise in our evolved world to understand that the entrance into college- or the financial aid that enables students from low-income households to attend college- is just a single...
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Not Your Typical Non-Profit…or Workplace
We’re Not Your Typical Non-Profit: CCFW Leads the Employee Engagement Pack “I’d totally work at a non-profit if I didn’t think I’d be overworked and underpaid.” We hear that all the time from people...
Asylum-Seekers: What’s Happening and How You Can Help
What’s happening? There is an asylum-seekers crisis currently underway across the United States. There is an overflow of families and individuals entering Border States and a need to move some of...
“Making Work Pay” Bill Could End the Benefits Cliff As We Know It
Our role in the creation of a new Texas law that tackles the benefits cliff and holds the potential to fundamentally transform the way poverty is addressed statewide. What is the...
Stability In Motion: 2018 Report Highlights
Stability In Motion Though we are in motion, we never waver. This is the focus of our 2018 annual report. CCFW is evolving to reach our timeless mission: to provide service to those in need,...
Stay the Course RFP
We are accepting proposals from social service organizations to replicate our proven intervention, Stay the Course, as outlined below in this Request for Proposals (RFP). Details included in...
Poverty and Brain Science
What does brain science have to do with poverty? Quite a bit actually. And understanding how the brain works is a vital component of our work with clients. Poverty is exhausting. And when you’re...
Statement on Family Separations at the Border and How to Help
*updated to include statement from Bishop Michael Olson on recent executive order* Statement on the Executive Order Allowing Family at the U.S. / Mexico Border to Remain Together I am grateful for...
What We Told Paul Ryan
Our Goal to Transform To end poverty, we must change the way poverty is addressed in our country. That's why we focus on engaging key leaders and groups with our mission. Our goal is to influence...
CCFW 2017 Annual Report: End poverty. Is it reasonable?
At Catholic Charities Fort Worth, we pride ourselves on our bold, even unreasonably crazy, goal - end poverty for 10,000 families in the next 10 years. People love to be a part of something that’s...
Stay the Course Increases Community College Persistence
Recently published research from our partners at the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame show that Stay the Course increases community college...
Time in Houston
Earlier this month, we sent a disaster relief team to serve those impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. The team connected victims to local services, went door-to-door interviewing people...