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2018 Grant Distribution

Annually the Catholic Foundation offers a competitive granting process to distribute a percentage of returns from our field of interest

• funds. Individuals or families, named or otherwise, can support these

funds to benefit their communities today and for future generations. In 2018, the inaugural year for distributions, we awarded $88,500 in grants to southeastern Michigan parishes, schools and community nonprofit organizations. Twenty five grants were offered to 23

• rganizations in amounts up to $5,000.

2018 Grant Recipient Pope Francis Center will use their grant award to fund a nutrition program which seeks to improve the health and well-being of their guests by providing the highest quality, most nutritious foods available. The center serves 400 healthy meals each day.

Empowering Social Outreach

Our Gospel call is to respond to vital social services needs such as food, shelter, medicine for the sick, hope for those in despair and vulnerable within our community​.

62%​ of total grants awarded 15​ grants awarded

Organization Program Description Award Amount Catholic Church of

• St. Moses the Black

Relocating and Stabilizing the St. Moses the Black Emergency Food Pantry The St. Moses the Black Emergency food Pantry and Clothes Closet are

• perating as Client Choice Programs and the program equipment is readily

mobile and portable. $5000 Christ the King Catholic School Understanding the need for social justice in Detroit and our neighborhoods Students benefit numerous social outreach programs, we also make a point of having all students from Christ the King Catholic School participate in various learning projects. $5,000 Christ the King Service Corp Radical Service Project Supply low-cost, high-skilled and Christ inspired volunteers to nonprofits that engage in social outreach with some of Detroit’s most impoverished population. $5,000 Detroit Oratory Better Way Detroit Provide employment for homeless persons, to help beautify the City of Detroit, and to connect homeless persons with services and other needs. $5,000 Freedom House Detroit Detroit New Beginnings Program New Beginnings Program strives to have 85% of FHD’s residents exit the program into permanent, unsubsidized housing. $2,000 Gianna House Utilities for Pregnancy and Parenting Residence Provide a safe and loving environment that teaches educational, life skills and career planning that positively impacts the women, youth and their child. $3,000

IHN Alpha House General Operations Support for Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) at Alpha House To increase the number of families sheltered each year. To shorten the length of time families spend in shelter. To place families into permanent housing more

• quickly. To increase the number of landlords that will work with us to provide

housing. $3,000 Pope Francis Center Nutrition Program Improve the health and well-being of our guests by providing the highest quality, most nutritious foods available. $5,000 Racquet – UP Detroit The Racquet Up Detroit Youth Enrichment Program That Racquet Up students have opportunities to learn how to be responsible, socially-aware, and compassionate members of the Detroit community through community service, cultural enrichment, college visits, and youth leadership activities. $3,000 The Servants of Jesus

• f The Divine Mercy

Kitchen and Outreach Mission Hoping for an increased number of community members, including families whose children attend local schools, to experience corporal works of mercy that help address their hunger needs. $2,000

• St. Augustine/St.

Monica Catholic Church Cut to the Heart Neighborhood Evangelization Home visits are done in pairs and include invitations to Mass/events at the parish, inquire about church, home and family, offering a Bible if they do not have one, while seeking opportunities to discuss Jesus and share the Gospel. $5,000

• St. Augustine St.

Monica Catholic Church Detroit Parish-Based Evangelization Mission Help establish parish-based evangelization to build up the Kingdom of God in the city of Detroit, by raising up leaders in the black Catholic community to serve in this mission to love people into the Church through Christ's love in

• ur hearts.

$3,000

• St. Catherine of Siena

Academy Epoch Week Build upon St. Catherine of Siena Academy academic, extracurricular and formation program to equip young women as intentional disciples of Jesus Christ as they volunteer in the community $2,000

• St. Mary’s of Redford

The James Tatum Contemporary Jazz Mass Concert This Jazz Mass will include 6 choirs (5 from Catholic churches, 1 non-Catholic church). The Jazz Mass, will include narration which explains the musical parts

• f the Mass being presented.

$5,000

• St. Vincent De Paul at
• St. Charles Lwanga

Parish Neighborhood Partnership Revitalization Program Responding to the emergency, partnering with agencies, and churches to evangelize by invitations to belong to a faith community, participate with Evangelization Commission of St. Charles Lwangs’s efforts. $2,000

Building Vibrant Parish Life

Our parish is where we encounter Christ – in the sacraments, as well as the people in our faith community. It’s where we worship, learn, and serve. It’s our home and it is our privilege to create a strong parish environment.

15%​ of total grants awarded 4​ grants awarded

Organization Program Description Award Amount Holy Redeemer Parish Revive “Revive” is an eleven week program in Spanish based on Alpha for Catholics. The weekly format consists of a supper followed by, a talk on the Catholic Faith, a small group discussion, and some praise and worship music. $5,000 Our Lady of the Rosary Parish Our Lady of the Rosary Parish Communications Director Hire a communications and events director for 5 hours per week to oversee communications and activities planning of the parish. $5,000

• St. Lucy Catholic

Church Share a Little Light Develop and use all of the various print, social media and digital communication tools available to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the community so they can become part of the Body of Christ. $1,000

• St. Peter Claver

Catholic Church New Evangelizations Mission Team (NEMT)

• St. Peter Claver’s New Evangelization Mission Team (NEMT) is working to create

vicariate-wide Evangelization activities. $2,000

Fostering Catholic Education and Formation

Catholic education encompasses all types of faith formation for people of every age. ​We encourage all stages of educational and spiritual development to enhance vibrant discipleship.

23%​ of total grants awarded 6​ grants awarded

Organization Program Description Award Amount Cathedral Choir Academy of Detroit Cathedral Choir Academy of Detroit Choir Academy serves both urban and suburban youth of all faiths, grades 3 – 9. The program includes two levels of instruction; the Cathedral Descant Choir or training choir, and the Cathedral Children’s Choir. $5,000 Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament Area Vacation Bible School Offering VBS to 100+ children in the clustered area. $2,000 Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament From the Shallows of The Deep The scope of this particular project is to provide 12 meals for Alpha for up to 100 attendees; Alpha then launches R.C.I.A, which is very likely smaller but also benefits from communal meals. $2,500 La Casa Guadalupana La Casa Guadalupana Program is classroom based with a group and a teacher who encourages group

• interaction. Hispanic students thrive in this setting, enjoy working as a class and

discover their own leadership abilities. $5,000

• Ste. Anne Detroit

Parish Jornadas Matrimonios Jornadas means journey. The purpose of the Jornadas is to assist people in a formation process to encounter Christ and to serve. $5,000

• St. Mary Catholic

Central High School

• St. Andre Besette Open

Doors Inclusion Program Launch a permanent inclusion program to provide a Catholic secondary educational environment for families with students with significant educational and developmental challenges. $1,000