CCHD, US bishops’ anti-poverty program, announces $2.1M in grants for 2025
December 20, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has published the Catholic Campaign for Human Development’s grant awards for 2025. The bishops’ Subcommittee for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development has approved 87 grants, totaling $2,165,000, for 2025. An additional $120,000 in funding for five grants awaits approval by local bishops.
Earlier this month, the bishops’ conference released the controversial anti-poverty program’s grant recipients for 2022-24. 167 grants totaling $8,636,100 were awarded by the subcommittee in 2022-23; 141 grants totaling $7,434,000 were awarded in 2023-24.
The release of the grants lists follows the November publication the program’s 2023 annual report. CCHD had $7,284,574 in revenue and $18,696,903 in expenses in 2023, leading to an operating deficit of $11,412,329. CCHD’s net assets, which stood at nearly $8.5 million at the beginning of 2023, stood at negative $2.3 million at the end of 2023.
Ralph McCloud, who was named director of CCHD in 2008, resigned from his position in April.
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