“'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers or sisters of mine, you did for me.”

Matthew 25:40

 

 

 

Clean water and the risk of waterborne disease are of critical concern.

Photo by Catholic Relief Services

Click here for more information on the Myanmar cyclone disaster or to donate.  CRS is also responding to the earthquakes in China.
 

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Assisi Bridge House Staff participate in Training, visit the ABH page for more.

 

 

 

  US Bishops issue 2008 Catholic Elections Political Responsibility Guide.  Resources, videos, podcasts, and ideas are available for parish leaders, youth, and young adults.  Send an e-card to a friend!  Materials are available at Catholic Social Services.  Visit http://www.faithfulcitizenship.org.   

  Legislative Advocacy is now very, very easy with voterVOICE!   Click here to join the LA Conference of Catholic Bishops Voter Voice network to address justice issues and other issues worked on by the Conference (such as support for Catholic schools).  This network is included in a A Catholic Voice for Justice legislative advocacy network, but you have to register online. It is very important and takes very little time.  Please notify Robert Gorman if you register.

 

Foster Grandparent Program
is accepting applicants.

 

St. Lucy Child Development Center is accepting
applications for children ages 1 to 4 years old. 

 

                          

Check the Matthew 25 Ministry webpage for the July newsletter.  

 

* Operation Rice Bowl local grant applications  for $250 grants are now available online or through the Parish Social Ministry office.  If your parish would like to apply, click here and follow the instructions on the application.  Deadline is 9/30/08.

*Visit www.crs.org to learn more about relief efforts by CRS and to view a video of Ken Hackett, Ex. Dir., addressing the global food crisis.
Associate Director of Parish Social Ministry
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Catholic Social Services
welcomes Kathryn
Anderson as the new
Associate Director for
Parish Social Ministry. 
Kathryn is from Newark,
Delaware and has a bachelor’s in religious
studies with a minor in French and art from Elizabethtown College
located in Elizabethtown, Pa.  She recently graduated in May with a Masters Degree in
Pastoral Ministry from Boston College in Boston, Mass.

Anderson’s started her position on August 4th
and is eager to begin assisting parishes.  “I
feel it’s really important to get to know the
people of the parishes,” Anderson said.
 “I’m looking forward to helping the leaders
in the parishes and being a resource for
parish social ministry.”



 
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Catholic Social Services assists 2000
people with economic stimulus forms:
 
The Internal Revenue Service sent notices
informing more than 130 million households
that they may be eligible for an economic
stimulus payment. The letters are part of an
extensive outreach effort to alert people that
they must file a 2007 tax return in
order to receive the payment.

Catholic Social Services saw the need to assist
the elderly and disabled in filling out their tax
rebate forms and have been assisting them
FREE of charge in filing out their tax rebate
forms. So far, 2000 disabled or elderly
people have been provided assistance in
completing their 2007 stimulus payment form. 
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Catholic Social Services was one of the first organizations to be certified under the state-wide Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations (LANO)
Standards for Excellence accreditation program that began in 2004. Its programs and services, management, fundraising and financial practices were examined in depth before the certification was awarded. The program provides a model for how the most well managed and responsibly governed nonprofits operate. CSS received Standards for Excellence re-certification in 2007. The Standards for Excellence seal means that Catholic SocialServices has met the highest ethics and accountability standards for nonprofit organizations.

 

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