Hilton Prize to Anti-trafficking Organization
The 2013 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize has been awarded to ECPAT International, End Child Prostitution and Trafficking, a global network of organizations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children. The $1.5 million prize will focus on efforts in Africa. Visit http://www.hiltonfoundation.org/prize for more information.
Flatley Foundation Makes Multi-Million Dollar Gift and Matching Grant
The Boston-based Flatley Foundation has made a multi-million dollar gift and matching grant to NPH USA, which supports the children of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH, Spanish for “Our Little Brothers and Sisters.”) NPH creates ‘families for life’ for abandoned and disadvantaged children in Latin America and the Caribbean by supporting homes, providing healthcare and educational […]
Preserving Our Catholic Stories
Breakthroughs in digitization and computing technologies have led to a digital humanities revolution. Historians can now, in theory, search for every trace of a person, relate themes across documents and write history rich with almost forgotten details. Technological advances have indeed made a vast body of historical newspapers and documents instantly accessible to scholars and […]
New Initiatives Promote Civic and Church Leadership Among Hispanic Students
The University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) and the Mexican American Catholic College (MACC) are developing new initiatives in Texas to promote civic and church leadership among southwestern college students. Both San Antonio institutions serve predominantly Hispanic student populations. Nationally, Hispanics are part of a vital church trend, representing 35% of U.S. Catholics overall […]
FADICA Member Makes Case for Managerial Best Practices
FADICA member Tom Healey (Healey Family Foundation) co-authored an article in America magazine about the need for managerial best practices in the Church: More than 450 parishes in 58 dioceses, as well as 54 Catholic nonprofit organizations nationwide, are implementing a comprehensive tool called Catholic Standards for Excellence, which commits them to best practice policies and procedures in […]
High Stakes Donor Collaborations
“High Stakes Donor Collaborations” by Willa Seldon, Thomas J. Tierney, and Gihani Fernando in The Stanford Social Innovation Review features inspiring news about major foundations coming together and collaborating to address otherwise unsolvable problems. The article has implications for Catholic philanthropy. Read more here: http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/high_stakes_donor_collaborations
Catholic Schools: a Pathway out of Poverty
Specialty Family Foundation Chair and FADICA member Deb Estes penned a post “Catholic Schools: a Pathway out of Poverty,” on the blog of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. Ms. Estes describes a renewed focus on the long-term sustainability of Catholic schools in light of many challenges, and the work of FADICA’s new Catholic Schools […]
A partnership for Camden schools
FADICA member Christine Healey authored this OpEd, “A Partnership for Camden Schools,” which was published this month in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “Last month, the state assumed full control of the public schools in the Camden School District. Of the 75 lowest-performing schools in the state, 23 are in Camden. The state’s intervention affirms what many of us have […]
SOAR! Awards Over $1 Million in Grants
Support Our Aging Religious (SOAR!)—a group of lay people who ensure the financial well being of Catholic religious congregations to care for their elderly and infirm members—reports that 644 religious congregations of women and men in the U.S. will benefit from recently approved grants totaling $1,125,621. The SOAR! board of directors approved the grants in […]
Advancing Mission: Women Religious in the 21st Century
Thanks to the generous partnership and commitment of two FADICA members, congregations of Catholic sisters will have an opportunity to strengthen their fundraising and development efforts through a new program at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. The comprehensive resource development program for women religious is supported by more than $2.6 million in […]
