Grants Awarded

2025 Cycle Two

The following organizations were awarded grants from the CPPS Heritage Mission Fund in Cycle Two of 2025. We wish them every success in the accomplishment of their goals in serving God’s people. Click on the organization names to visit their websites.

3Strands Global Foundation
Project: The Table: Survivor Empowerment and Long-Term Recovery
Organization Mission: 3Strands Global Foundation is a survivor-led 501(c)(3) organization working to end human trafficking through prevention education and long-term survivor services. Our mission is: “Prevent. Empower. Unite. Together, ending human trafficking.” Since 2010, we have educated over 1.25 million youth and adults and supported more than 1,100 survivors and at-risk individuals through workforce development and trauma-informed care. Our work centers on human dignity, reconciliation, and equity. Through programs like The Table, Sacramento’s only Survivor Empowerment Center, we accompany individuals toward safety, healing, and self-sufficiency to restore agency and build pathways to lives free from exploitation.

Africa New Life Ministries International
Project: Food & Care for Vulnerable Children in Rwanda
Organization Mission: Africa New Life exists to communicate the message of Jesus Christ in word and deed to Rwanda and all the nations. This ministry will help all peoples to understand the relationship with God available to them through belief in Jesus as Savior, by providing access to education, leadership training, and healthcare; through church planting and Christian discipleship; and through holistic care for vulnerable children, and women and men in need.

African Sisters Education Collaborative
Project: ASEC’s Scholarship Program
Organization Mission: The Mission of the ASEC is to facilitate access to education for Sisters in Africa that leads to enhancement and expansion of education, health, economic, social, environmental, and spiritual services they provide to their people. Catholic sisters dedicate their lives to service, especially among the marginalized of the society.

Bethany House Services
Project: Heading Home: Emergency Shelter and Family Services for Women and Children Experiencing Homelessness
Organization Mission: Founded in 1983, Bethany House Services (BHS) empowers families at risk of or experiencing homelessness to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency. With over 42 years of experience, BHS is the largest provider of family homelessness services in Greater Cincinnati, offering a proven model that integrates prevention, shelter, support services, and re-housing.

Blessings International
Project: Support for Pregnancy Clinics in Ohio
Organization Mission: Our mission is to heal the hurting globally and locally by providing life-saving pharmaceuticals, vitamins, and medical supplies to medical mission teams, clinics, and hospitals; to build healthy communities by treating the poor and victims of endemic medical problems, outbreaks of disease, or overwhelming disasters; and to transform lives by actively demonstrating the love and compassion of Jesus Christ.

Camp David of the Ozarks, Inc.
Project: Staff Housing
Organization Mission: To bring the hope of Jesus to children of prisoners and develop leaders who will impact their world.

Catholic Charities San Bernardino and Riverside Counties
Project: Comprehensive Hunger Relief in the Inland Empire
Organization Mission: The mission of Catholic Charities is to achieve lasting stability and well-being by creating opportunities that promote healthy and fulfilling lives. We serve more than 27,000 individuals each year across two of California’s largest and most diverse counties. Covering 27,278 square miles and home to nearly 4.7 million residents, the region faces significant challenges, with more than one in eight families living in poverty.

Catholic Mobilizing Network
Project: CMN Restorative Justice Program Support
Organization Mission: Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN) is the national Catholic organization working to abolish the death penalty and promote restorative justice (RJ). CMN mobilizes Catholics and all people of goodwill to value life over death, end the use of the death penalty, transform the U.S. criminal justice system from punitive to restorative, and build capacity in the U.S. to engage in restorative practices. Through education, advocacy, and prayer, and based on the Gospel value that every human is created in the image and likeness of God, CMN expresses the fundamental belief that all who have caused or been impacted by crime should be treated with dignity. CMN works closely with the USCCB and lives the Spirit of Unity of the Congregation of St. Joseph.

Catholic World Mission
Project: Nourishing Hope: Preventing Child Malnutrition at St. Luke Primary School in Endulen Village, Tanzania
Organization Mission: Catholic World Mission bridges the gap between donors and partners to uplift those in spiritual and material poverty. Our mission rises on three pillars: Dignified Living, Evangelization, and Education. Dignified Living bridges the poverty gap, meeting the material and spiritual needs of our most vulnerable brothers and sisters in Christ. Evangelization bridges the spiritual gap, introducing God’s love to as many people as possible. Education bridges the gap to the future, addressing poverty at the root level.

Center for Conflict Resolution
Project: Breaking Cycles of Violence Program
Organization Mission: The mission of the Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR) is to transform individual and community conflict from harm to healing, upholding human dignity through restorative processes. Since 2020, CCR has helped people of all ages create non-violent solutions, transform conflict, and restore relationships. Our work is centered around the principles of restorative justice, which are grounded in indigenous practices and values.

Child Hunger Outreach Partners
Project: Nourishing Neighbors: Growing Stronger Together
Organization Mission: The mission of Chop Out Hunger is to create an entire generation that doesn’t know hunger through innovative and collaborative outreach partnerships.

Children’s Place International
Project: Child Thrive
Organization Mission: Building a secure and hopeful today, so children facing health issues and poverty succeed tomorrow.

Community Help in Park Slope
Project: Pathways to Stability: Holistic Support for Our Brooklyn Neighbors
Organization Mission: CHiPS is a nonprofit based in Brooklyn, dedicated to alleviating hunger and homelessness by providing meals, produce and pantry items to those in need and supportive housing to single mothers. In 2024 we served 192,000 meals, distributed 25,000 pantry bags of shelf-stable foods and fresh produce, and housed and supported 15 mothers and their children in our Frances Residence. We are working hard to develop our programming so we can offer as many resources (connections to employment, health services, etc.) as possible to our guests so they are set up for long-term stability while receiving solutions to immediate needs of shelter and food.

Crayons to Classrooms
Project: Teacher Resource Center – Program Enhancements and Expansion
Organization Mission: Crayons to Classrooms secures and distributes school supplies at no cost to teachers of students in need. We ensure that all students, regardless of economic status, have the tools they need to learn and thrive.

Cross International
Project: EmpowerHer: Equipping Ugandan Girls with Faith and Purpose
Organization Mission: Meeting critical needs of impoverished children, families, and communities by partnering alongside local Christian ministries.

Cypress House at St. Luke’s
Project: Cypress House Bakery
Organization Mission: Cypress House Bakery (CHB), a nonprofit initiative of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in downtown Scranton, is dedicated to transforming lives and strengthening the community by providing paid, hands-on training to formerly incarcerated individuals. CHB’s six-month program in commercial baking and food handling equips participants with practical job skills and prepares them to earn their Food Handler Certification through the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Graduates will be ready to pursue sustainable employment and reenter society with confidence and dignity.

Ecumenical Assembly of Bartholomew County Churches, Inc.
Project: Love Chapel School Care Packs Program
Organization Mission: Love Chapel strives to show Christ’s love in action by serving Bartholomew County residents with food, shelter and financial assistance.

EduNations
Project: Enabling Students to Thrive through Nourishing Meals
Organization Mission: EduNations is a faith-based nonprofit organization that builds and operates schools in under-resourced communities in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where education is otherwise inaccessible. We believe that the key to the development of these communities is education. When boys and girls learn, the lives of their families, community, and nation are transformed. EduNations currently operates 15 schools in 6 rural villages, providing free education to 3,700 students annually. EduNations is committed to supporting the whole child in mind, body, soul, and spirit. Our mission is to ignite hope in under-resourced communities by comprehensively educating rising generations and to honor Christ in all we do.

Family Reading Partners
Project: Championing Early Literacy in the Home
Organization Mission: Family Reading Partners (FRP), a parent education program, increases early literacy by empowering parents to read and have conversations around books regularly with their children. Starting at birth, FRP is designed for each child to master pre-reading skills prior to kindergarten, in spite of living in poverty.

Federación Internacional Fe y Alegría
Project: To Educate is To Include
Organization Mission: The International Federation of Fe y Alegría is a nonprofit based in Colombia, with federation members in 22 countries. Its mission is to promote from, with, and for the communities in which it works comprehensive and inclusive education for the most marginalized. Fe y Alegría supports vulnerable populations by advancing inclusive educational processes and upholding the universal right to quality education as a public good. This mission is captured in its commitment to be present at the margins of society—“where the asphalt ends, where drinking water does not drip, and where the city loses its name.”

Good Knights, Inc.
Project: Building a Better Tomorrow: A Statewide Bed-Building Partnership Between Good Knights, Inc. and the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections
Organization Mission: Build and provide beds to under service youth, veterans and elderly in northern Ohio.

Good Neighbor House
Project: Hunger Prevention Program
Organization Mission: At Good Neighbor House, we empower healthier communities by fostering the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of our neighbors.

Good Samaritan Foundation-Dayton
Project: Young Children’s Assessment and Treatment Services (YCATS)
Organization Mission: The mission of Good Samaritan Foundation-Dayton is to inspire philanthropy to enhance the health and well-being of the greater Dayton communities and the healthcare professionals who care for them. The vision of Good Samaritan Foundation-Dayton is providing opportunities to transform lives. Our commitment and mission of service is rooted in our Catholic foundresses, the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, and the spirit of the Good Samaritan – a call to bring compassion and healing to the most vulnerable in our community.

Grace Way Village, Inc.
Project: Community Connections Pavilion
Organization Mission: GraceWay Village is committed to easing the lives of families in crisis while building a foundation for a healthy, independent, and sustainable life. Founded in 2009, GraceWay Village serves residents in St. Lucie County, Florida, who struggle with poverty, food scarcity, homelessness, and other essential needs. We fulfill our mission by serving hot meals, providing clothing, and delivering life skills courses, all cost-free to our neighbors in need.

Hope Walks
Project: Holistic Clubfoot Care in DRC
Organization Mission: Our mission is to glorify God and free children and families from the burden of clubfoot. Hope Walks delivers high-impact, faith-driven healthcare in low- and middle-income countries by treating children born with clubfoot—a condition routinely treated in developed countries but often disabling in under-served communities.

Instituto del Rincon AC
Project: Program for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation in Rural Mexico
Organization Mission: The Corner Institute’s mission is to promote our rural Mexican region’s educational and economic development, prioritizing programs for those in greatest need. Our assistance to migrants’ families and children helps families resolve critical difficulties before these become family-fragmenting crises, while generating educational and earning opportunities. Our peace-building programs strengthen security in partnership with church, community and the most vulnerable poor, empowering them to achieve better access to needed services by building transparency in local agencies, which helps prevent corruption while strengthening citizen participation in rural-appropriate responses to crime, natural disasters and regional emergencies.

Joseph’s Home DBA Joseph and Mary’s Home
Project: Medical Respite for Medically Fragile Adults Experiencing Homelessness
Organization Mission: Founded by the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, Joseph & Mary’s Home (JMH) is dedicated to serving medically fragile adults experiencing homelessness. Our mission is deeply rooted in Catholic values of charity, compassion, and dignity for all.

Joseph’s House for Women, Inc.
Project: Capital Project for Transitional Apartment Program Expansion
Organization Mission: Joseph’s House for Women, Inc. (JH) promotes the sanctity of life and the dignity of women by providing a nurturing home for pregnant and parenting women facing a crisis pregnancy and homelessness. The physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of mothers and their children are impacted through a comprehensive faith based process devoted to stabilization, restoration, transformation, and consecration through the support of dedicated staff. Founded and rooted in the Catholic tradition, JH provides residents the educational, occupational, and spiritual resources needed to achieve their God-given potential.

Lahai Health
Project: Free Medical Clinics
Organization Mission: Providing quality and compassionate health care to the under-served showing Christ’s love to everyone.

Logistic Assistance for Migrant People
Project: Empowering the immigrant Community in Northwest Ohio
Organization Mission: To perform charitable and educational activities with immigrants, migrants, marginalized need individuals, and communities around the World.

Loreto House
Project: Lifeline of Hope
Organization Mission: Loreto House strives to see Jesus in all it serves, as life is sacred & precious. All persons, from conception till natural death, deserve the dignity given to them as a Child of God, made in His image & likeness.

Lower Nine Org
Project: Lower 9th Ward Older Adults Home Repair Initiative
Organization Mission: Established in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that devastated the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana, lowernine.org is dedicated to the short- and long-term recovery and sustainable revitalization of the Lower 9th Ward. lowernine.org realizes its mission by rebuilding and repairing owner-occupied houses destroyed by hurricanes and other disasters, mitigating blight, providing equitable access to healthy food, and advocating for long-term disaster recovery in marginalized, underserved communities. These programs allow individuals and families to live in their homes and neighborhoods, create greater equity, and enable the Lower 9th Ward community to thrive.

Madonna Mission
Project: Expanded Support for Refugees through ESL Enhancements
Organization Mission: Madonna Mission is a lifeline for refugees in Chicago, providing critical education and resettlement services to families who have fled war, violence, and persecution. Each week, we serve more than 340 women and children who arrive in the US legally through the State Department, full of hope but facing immense barriers—chief among them, the inability to communicate in English.

Make-A-Day Foundation
Project: Move the Box: From Barriers to Opportunities
Organization Mission: Make-A-Day creates pathways for people experiencing homelessness or deep poverty to restore their dignity, health, and sense of belonging. Through mobile outreach, pop-up events, and our Move the Box program, we deliver food, legal help, housing support, and trauma-informed care directly in the community. We believe every person deserves to be seen, valued, and supported to overcome barriers, heal from hardship, and thrive as part of a stronger, more compassionate community working for the common good.

Maple Tree Cancer Alliance
Project: Maple Kids – Survivor Strong
Organization Mission: The mission of Maple Tree Cancer Alliance is to improve the quality of lives of individuals battling cancer. We accomplish this by championing a unique model of exercise and nutrition education as a critical component of cancer treatment and rehabilitation. Responding to a critical need, Maple Tree provides specialized programming for pediatric cancer patients and their families through both individualized exercise sessions and family workshops. Firmly committed to ensuring our services are accessible to cancer patients who are most vulnerable and facing economic challenges, our services are free of charge to the cancer patients we serve.

Miami Valley Meals
Project: Prepared Meal Program
Organization Mission: Miami Valley Meals’ mission is to transform donated food into nutritious, chef-prepared meals, distributed free of charge through a network of nonprofit partners serving the hungry. Founded in 2020 by furloughed chefs responding to rising food insecurity, MVM recovers surplus food and repurposes it into ready-to-eat meals that support dignity, health, and stability. By collaborating with social service agencies across the Miami Valley, MVM addresses hunger while reducing food waste and strengthening community resilience.

Moving Health, Inc.
Project: Community-Based Emergency Transport for Maternal Health
Organization Mission: Moving Health’s mission is to connect mothers and last-mile communities in rural Ghana to essential healthcare when they need it most. We design and deploy low-cost, reliable tricycle ambulances co-created with midwives, community health workers, and local leaders—built for rural realities.

NutriFund International
Project: Promotion of maternal and infant health in rural Honduras
Organization Mission: To restore health and dignity to women and children in Honduras by preventing and treating malnutrition through high-quality nutritional care, family-centered support, and community-based solutions.

Pawsperity, Inc.
Project: Pawsperity: Unleashing Human Potential through the Art of Pet Grooming
Organization Mission: Pawsperity’s mission is empowering families to become self-reliant through the provision of job training, affordable housing, life skills, and practical solutions to end their cycle of poverty.

Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation NFP
Project: PBMR Urban Farm
Organization Mission: The Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation (PBMR) mission is, “rooted in the spirituality of the Precious Blood, we restore human dignity through hospitality, hope and healing. We work as agents of reconciliation to: Build relationships among youth and families impacted by violence and/or conflict. Create safe spaces where people can experience radical hospitality, hope and healing. To promote a restorative justice approach to conflict and build a sense of community.” Together we can heal the conflict and violence in our community by journeying alongside those most impacted by racism, gun violence, trauma, poverty, incarceration, and involvement in the criminal justice system.

Pregnancy Resource Center, Inc.
Project: Free Clinical Care for Families with Unexpected Pregnancies
Organization Mission: Why We Exist: To see our community value every human life from conception as a gift from God. What We Do: We advocate for the value of every human life, equip families to flourish, and share the good news of life in Jesus Christ.

Rebirth Homes
Project: Victim to Survivor Program
Organization Mission: Rebirth Homes exists to combat human trafficking through education, awareness, and by providing holistic, residential programs for survivors of human trafficking. Rebirth Homes journeys with survivors as they become empowered to be all they were created to be.

Santa Chiara Children’s Center
Project: Santa Chiara Children’s Center Emergency Operating Expenses
Organization Mission: SCCC’s mission is to provide complete systemic change in the development of orphaned, abandoned, displaced, abused, and neglected children from the slums of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. They arrive hungry, malnourished, and bearing all kinds of physical, emotional, and psychological wounds that need to be lovingly embraced and healed. SCCC offers the children compassion; a nonviolent home; daily nutritious meals; exceptional education; medical care; and a sense of dignity and solidarity for the common good. Ultimately, in nurturing and enabling these children over their years at SCCC (up to 17 years of age) the objective is for them to succeed as adults who become contributing citizens.

Santa Maria Community Services
Project: Santa Maria Wellness Program
Organization Mission: Founded in 1897 by the Sisters of Charity, Santa Maria Community Services supports more than 3,000 individuals each year through early childhood development, adult workforce coaching, housing stability, and health programming. Our mission is to be a catalyst and advocate for Greater Price Hill families to achieve their educational, financial, and health goals. We work alongside families to reduce barriers, build on strengths, and connect them to the resources they need to improve their well-being and achieve lasting stability.

St. Francis of Assisi Parish
Project: St. Francis of Assisi Parish Hispanic Ministry: Building Bridges
Organization Mission: United by our faith as disciples of Our Lord, we come together to be the Light of Christ to each other and to our greater community as we celebrate our diverse heritages.

The Garden for All
Project: The Garden for All Johnstown Farm Expansion
Organization Mission: In 2020 Catherine and Shawn Duffy started a small garden on the land of their church and donated 750 pounds of produce to the food pantry in response to high food insecurity during COVID. Each year since, The Garden for All has expanded production with a focus on our mission of Fighting Hunger and Growing Community. We provide as much fresh, nutritious, and sustainably grown produce as possible to meet the increasing needs of our pantry partners, ensuring access to healthy produce for those facing food insecurity. Through volunteerism, we create opportunities for people to connect with creation and with one another. We provide ways for individuals to invest in the well-being of their larger community, contributing to the health of others.

The Harbor Home Ministries
Project: The Harbor Home Impact Project
Organization Mission: Helping women and children whose lives have been devastated by addiction and destructive lifestyles; facilitating healing from trauma and abuse while leading women to discover the powerful truths found in God’s Word. Ultimately, bringing them in to right relationship with God and others as they launch new lives of freedom as productive members of the communities where they reside.

The Isaiah 1:17 Project
Project: Fortifying Fostering Families (F3)
Organization Mission: Every child impacted by the foster care system deserves dignity, stability, and hope. Since 2017, we’ve been committed to meeting the spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of children in crisis and the families who care for them.

The National Conference for Community & Justice of Greater Dayton
Project: Teen Summit
Organization Mission: To educate and empower communities to eliminate bias, bigotry and all forms of discrimination.

The Underground NE, Inc.
Project: Adult Mentor Program
Organization Mission: The Underground New England (UGNE) exists to eradicate human trafficking in Connecticut (CT) and New England through awareness, prevention, and intentional survivor support.

Transformations by Atlanta Angels Inc.
Project: Expansion of Love Box & Dare to Dream Programs
Organization Mission: Atlanta Angels walks alongside children, youth, and families in foster care by offering consistent, trauma-informed support through intentional giving, relationship building, and mentorship. We believe transformation begins in connection, where the isolated find belonging, the weary find strength, and cycles of trauma are broken. Our Love Box and Dare to Dream programs wrap families in consistent care, equip youth with life skills and mentors, and ensure no one navigates the system alone. Through radical empathy and consistent care, we meet tangible needs while fostering hope, stability, and long-term healing. We exist to remind every child: you are not forgotten, you are seen, and you are worth believing in every step of the way.

United Rehabilitation Services of Greater Dayton
Project: Comprehensive Nursing Care for Children with Disabilities at United Rehabilitation Services
Organization Mission: United Rehabilitation Services is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for children and adults with developmental and acquired disabilities through compassionate, person-centered care. As a regional leader in inclusive services, URS offers early childhood education, on-site therapies, adult day programs, and employment support. We serve over 1,000 individuals annually from across the Miami Valley, promoting independence, dignity, and community inclusion. Our integrated nursing care ensures that individuals with complex medical needs can fully participate in daily activities, education, and enrichment programs in a safe and supportive environment—providing peace of mind for families and stability for working parents.

Unlocking Communities
Project: Community-Led Clean Cookstoves Program in Haiti
Organization Mission: Unlocking Communities’ purpose is to unlock economic, environmental and social transformation in the world’s most underserved regions. In Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, our inaugural programming serves local entrepreneurs by offering business training and resources that enable them to sell life-saving water filters and cooking stoves: products that address critical water and fuel issues, decrease environmental harm, and improve community health outcomes. Our mission is to reach areas of the world that are chronically under-served by other non-profits or NGOs. Starting with Haiti, our programming develops local supply chains for life-saving products that have not yet been widely distributed.

Vicente Ferrer Foundation USA, Inc.
Project: Single Mothers Income Generation Program – Rural Andhra Pradesh, India
Organization Mission: Vicente Ferrer Foundation USA is committed to uplifting vulnerable communities in rural India – especially women, children, and people with disabilities – through inclusive, sustainable development. In partnership with the Rural Development Trust (RDT), we address deep-rooted poverty with a holistic, grassroots approach that promotes dignity, equity, and long-term well-being. Inspired by Vicente Ferrer’s journey since 1969, our work has reached over three million people across 3,775 villages.

Wichita Women’s Initiative Network, Inc. dba The Women’s Network
Project: Domestic Violence Employment Program (DVEP) and Dress for Success (DFS) Wichita
Organization Mission: The Women’s Network has a mission to equip women with the tools, resources, and support needed to overcome trauma, achieve economic security, and thrive in work and life. Through programs like the Domestic Violence Employment Program and Dress for Success Wichita, we provide skills training, career development, and holistic guidance to empower women to achieve emotional and financial stability, independence, and lasting success.