What is Financial Resiliency? Financial Resiliency is the ability to absorb financial shocks and crises. Assets like robust emergency savings accounts, healthy credit scores and low debt-to-income ratios all make up a family's financial resiliency toolkit. Having...
Dallas Morning News: "Myriad factors contribute to a person or family finding themselves in poverty, and the way out won't be the same for each person." Featuring our Padua program, this article discusses how CCFW's individualized approach and research partnership...
CCFW Evaluation and Design Specialist, Sarah Dunham, spoke with Fort Worth Weekly about our new Out of Poverty Pathways.
Guest post by Jim Wilkes, President of Texland Petroleum LPThe year starts off as poverty awareness month, and I like to begin my year budgeting my annual grant recommendations from our donor advised fund at the North Texas Community Foundation. It is the best time of...
FORT WORTH (1080 KRLD) - The COVID-19 pandemic and last week's arctic blast has left Catholic Charities Fort Worth in dire financial straits. With thousands on its waiting list, Catholic Charities Fort Worth is unable to accept any new applications for financial...
Fort Worth Business Press Catholic Charities Fort Worth (CCFW) has issued an urgent appeal to the community to assist the organization as it tries to meet the overwhelming demand for help resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent weather crisis.
FOX4 News "You’ve got people who support Catholic Charities who were affected, and then you’ve got our clients who are affected, and I think what we really see in real time is that our clients are in poverty so they are doubly impacted because they were already...
NBC News Catholic Charities Fort Worth is making an unusual public call for donations, saying they aren't able to help everyone requesting assistance following last month's winter storm along with those seeking help amid the ongoing pandemic. The long-serving...
"People who live in Tarrant County who need a ride to their COVID-19 vaccination appointments can get one free. For those Tarrant County residents who do not have a means to get to Esports Stadium, Globe Life Field or AT&T Stadium for their vaccinations, Catholic...
Check out our feature on the University of Notre Dame's website, a story about our Padua program and research partnership with the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities. Read more here!
In partnership with the Tarrant County Commissioners Court, we are providing free rides to individuals in need of transportation to their COVID-19 vaccination appointments! To see if you qualify, call our Transportation Services team at (817) 336-8714. Read more...
Where We Started Five years ago, we launched our Out of Poverty Campaign. This campaign included an effort to link our clients’ journeys with measurable outcomes of success. To do this, we created an initial definition of four key metrics – mostly financial – that we...