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Poverty Awareness Month 2021
Welcome to Poverty Awareness Month. It's a new year and we are starting with a theme that makes up the core of our agency's purpose: The daunting, complex issue of poverty. The root causes often go back generations –mired in systemic inequality, ineffective...
CCFW Receives 2020 Community Partner of the Year Award
Catholic Charities Fort Worth is honored to receive Tarrant County College Northwest Campus’ 2020 Community Partner of the Year award. Our shared commitment to helping Tarrant County community college students reach their educational goals and thrive is the...
Adhikari receives Immigrant Journey Awards in Texas
Sudip Adhikari, a program specialist at the Catholic Charities Fort Worth, TX has been presented with the Immigrant Journey Awards for the year 2020. The award was presented by Badmus & Associates, an immigration law firm based in Dallas, TX. Adhikari was also...
This Fort Worth charity helps people get out of poverty even amid COVID-19 recession
"But here’s a number that offers some hope: 99. That’s how many families Catholic Charities Fort Worth has helped get out of poverty this year. Those families have newly met the organization’s “out of poverty” benchmarks: a job with a living-wage income; adequate...
The Greatest Gift Catalog Ever 2020
Looking for the perfect holiday gift? Join NBC 5 and the Greatest Gift Catalog Ever for the 2020 holiday giving season. The Greatest Gift Catalog Ever is an annual catalog that offers gift giving ideas and features 20 amazing local nonprofits with matching donor...
New Research on Why Padua Works
Why We Created Padua There are 100+ federal anti-poverty programs in the United States – siloed by need (housing, food, etc.) and consisting of complicated/confusing requirements and paperwork. For a family trying to get out of poverty, this can be overwhelming. They...
Research Spotlight: How Exactly We “Evaluate”
We do a lot of work in “R&E,” a term used to define our work in Research and Evaluation. While we’ve spent some time talking about our research, it can be helpful to know what program evaluation looks like. Evaluation takes the form of an ever-circling 6-part...
Research Spotlight: On Getting Feedback from Those Who Left
The heart of our work is long-term interventions, so keeping clients engaged enhances the effectiveness of our interventions. So when we started noticing students leaving our Stay the Course program after the winter break, we began asking “why?” On the back end, we...
New president at Cristo Rey deals with COVID challenges
"We’re in this for the long-term. We’re not going anywhere, our kids aren’t going anywhere, and their problems aren’t going anywhere. We want to form and foster lasting partnerships that will get us through thick or thin." READ MORE
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