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Catholic Community Outreach Grants for 2008

Organization

Program Description

Grant Award

Caritas Center

Utility assistance, transportation, and money for food for the needy in NW Spokane

$3,000.00


Catholic Charities Senior Services Foster Grandparent

Transport 5 Foster-Grandparents for a year

$1,000.00


Cheney Outreach Center

To help 150 low income households with energy bills through the Energy Assistance Fund

$1,500.00


Gonzaga Preparatory School

Partially fund the Catholic Elementary School Band Program that serves 213 students from 9 diocesan schools

$3,000.00


Holy Family Adult Day Centers

Purchase a new Mobile projector for outreach opportunities

$200.00


Holy Family Adult Day Centers

To purchase Restorative Therapy Equipment to assist individuals suffering from strokes, MS, Parkinson's, head injuries, & mental illness

$830.00


Holy Names Music Center

Purchase a new Drumset

$500.00


Immaculate Heart Retreat Center

Grief Retreats - for 30 - 40 individuals attending 1 retreat during 2008

$1,200.00


Natural Family Planning Program

Natural Family Planning instruction

$1,000.00


Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Youth Ministry

To build a Parish Garden that will produce vegetables that can be given to the House of Charity

$400.00


Our Place Community Ministries

Direct client services - prevent utility shut-off, bus passes for school-work-medical appts, carts to transport groceries

$3,000.00


Prison & Detention Ministry

Volunteer Training & Catechetical Material for the inmates

$900.00


Refugee & Immigration Services

Staff Training - Send the director to the 2008 USCCB- CLINIC Nat'l Migration Conference & training

$1,450.00


Right to Life of Spokane

Install overhead Lights in the maternity room/ volunteer room/ board room

$500.00


Sacred Heart Catholic Church - Othello

Youth Chore Service - have 8 - 10 high school students assist 5 or 6 ill or elderly parishioners with yard work and other chores

$200.00


Saint Michael's Mission

To partially fund the Grief and Healing Ministry of the parish

$1,600.00


Saint Michael's Mission

To purchase turkeys to add to the food baskets provided by G Prep for Thanksgiving Baskets

$500.00


Saint Michael's Mission

Install duct work in Saint Michael's Hall

$500.00


Secular Franciscans & Holy Trinity Fraternity

Food baskets for local needy families

$800.00


Spokane Valley Partners

Purchase carts for food bank clients to transport grocery sacks home

$400.00


St. Joseph Family Center

Create a Serenity Garden client of St Joseph Family Center

$2,000.00


St. Joseph Parish, Colbert

Formation of Lay Leaders

$1,185.00


St. Joseph Parish, Otis Orchards

to help purchase TV/DVD Player for the religious education program

$400.00


St. Joseph Parish, Otis Orchards

to assist with purchasing Tables and portable classroom

$1,100.00


The Fig Tree

Encouragement Project - involve writers (low-income) to produce articles, connecting people promoting solutions to peace justice & sustainability issues,

$500.00


The Fig Tree

Rural-Urban Connections Project - informing people in rural, suburban and urban churches of how issues they face intersect

$750.00


Total Grants: $28,415.00


Religious Education Grants for 2008

Does your organization wish to apply for a grant from the Foundation? Go to our Forms page and download the appropriate form.

For more information, email Executive Director Steve Kocharhook
Click here for the Spokane Diocese Website
Click here for the Annual Appeal Website