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November
21, 2005 
VOL.
43, NO. 20Oakland,
CA
Fourteen local non-profits earn CCHD funding
Some $210,000
in grant money from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development is funding
14 groups in Contra Costa and Alameda counties for 2005. Six projects
have received national grants and eight projects have received local grants.
They are among 330 local projects in 45 states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands receiving CCHD funds to achieve
living wages, affordable housing, accessible health care, better-quality
schools and other services that make up the safety net of life. CCHD is
the nation’s largest private funder of projects that empower the
poor and work to eliminate poverty and injustice in the United States.
Currently, nearly 36 million Americans, one in every eight, live in poverty.
That’s 1.3 million more people than last year and three million
more than two years ago said CCHD interim director, Timothy F. Collins.
The 36th annual CCHD collection was taken up in most parishes the weekend
of Nov. 19-20. Seventy-five percent of the funds go for community and
economic development projects submitted to the national office for consideration.
Individual dioceses provide self-help grants from the 25 percent of the
collection they retain.
2005
CCHD LOCAL GRANT RECIPIENTS
Asian Pacific Environmental Network: Laotian Leadership Project
- $5,000
To support the leadership development of young people in the Laotian refugee
community of Contra Costa County, and community organizing to increase
access to needed health and human services
St. Mark’s Church: Casa de Esperanza - $5,000
To train youth leaders to address the extreme security concerns in Richmond
by educating their peers about avoiding gang activities and teen pregnancy,
making good career choices, and promoting justice.
Centro Legal de la Raza: La Lucha Unida Del Jornalero - $5,000
To work with the National Association of Day Laborers to advance community
activism for social justice and civil rights by training day laborers
in Oakland’s Fruitvale District in leadership and community organizing.
Community Recovery Services: Surveying Teens about Alcohol in
Oakland - $5,000
To provide a racially diverse group of low-income Oakland youth with an
opportunity to develop positive leadership skills and build strong youth-adult
partnerships while responding to a serious life and health threatening
issue in their lives.
Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights: Leadership Development
and Civic Participation - $5,000
To educate new refugees and immigrants in Southern Alameda County and
West Oakland about rights, responsibilities and opportunities in their
new civic context.
National Council on Crime and Delinquency: Forums on Violence
Prevention - $5,000
To facilitate a community organizing effort to address youth violence
prevention by enhancing the capacity of residents in the San Antonio district
of Oakland to address the problem of youth violence, especially among
immigrant Latino youth and their families.
St. Martin de Porres School: Madres de San Martin de Porres -
$5,000
To form a small cooperative among the mothers of students in the school,
to enable the families to overcome poverty and achieve greater economic
self-sufficiency. The cooperative will pursue two areas of work –
food preparation for the school’s federal lunch program and housecleaning.
United Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County - $5,000
To develop a Tenant Leadership Committee that will further the ability
of tenants at all five Oakland Housing Authority public housing facilities
to secure a quality and respectful living environment.
2005 CCHD NATIONAL
GRANT RECIPIENTS
Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action (BOCA): $20,000
To organize youth at Berkeley High School, lower the dropout rate of students
of color, and raise the number of students of color who pass exit exams.
Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization (CCISCO):
Affordable Housing Campaign: $30,000
To increase affordable housing development and improve housing quality
for low-income residents in Contra Costa County.
Oakland Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
(ACORN): Building the Vision: $30, 000
To engage parents and other residents around Oakland’s education
crisis, and to train new leaders to organize working people throughout
the flatlands to run a citywide campaign to raise Oakland’s minimum
wage.
St. Mary’s Center: - $25,000
For community organizing to achieve broad acceptance of the fact that
food, health and housing are basic human rights, to prevent state budget
cuts in health and human services, and to increase the number of housing
units affordable to extremely low-income people
2005 CCHD MULTI-DIOCESAN GRANT RECIPIENTS
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE): Immigrant
Workers Freedom Ride Coalition - $30,000
To work for a platform for low-income workers in the service sector in
the East Bay which calls for legalization and a path to citizenship, family
reunification, protection of workplace rights regardless of immigration
status, and civil rights and civil liberties for all.
Low-Income Families’ Empowerment through Education (LIFETIME)
- $35,000
To engage low-income parents in LIFETIME’s statewide Parent Leadership
Committee to win policy changes that challenge time limits and institutionalized
oppression of low-income parents by the welfare system, and to expand
low-income parents’ access to education and training under TANF
and the state budget process.
For more information on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, go
to www.usccb.org/cchd
