Grants Awarded

2025 Cycle One

The following organizations were awarded grants from the CPPS Heritage Mission Fund in Cycle One 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.

Babies of Homelessness
Project: Meeting Families’ Diaper Needs Through Community Partnerships
Organization Mission: Babies of Homelessness delivers diapers, wipes, and formula to families experiencing housing insecurity in King and Snohomish Counties, Washington. Without adequate access to these essentials, parents often face the heartbreaking reality of reusing diapers or changing them less frequently, exposing families to traumatizing health, safety, and emotional hazards. To address this urgent need, we uniquely utilize three distribution channels: direct delivery service, a robust partner network, and mobile pickup service. Our mission is driven by a unwavering belief in the inherent worth of every child and family, ensuring they have access to the essential resources that uphold their dignity and support their well-being.

Breakthrough Urban Ministries, Inc.
Project: Breakthrough Beyond
Organization Mission: Breakthrough’s mission is to partner with people to build connections, develop skills and open doors of opportunity. Its vision is a safe, stable, engaged Garfield Park where success is the norm and everyone thrives.

Christ in the City
Project: 2025-2026 Young Adult Formation and Service to the Homeless
Organization Mission: Christ in the City is a Catholic non-profit with a dual mission of forming missionary disciples and serving the poor, especially those experiencing homelessness. CIC forms young adults by engaging them in prayer and the sacraments, helping them form habits of simplicity and authentic friendship in communal living, providing instruction in Catholic Social teaching, and putting faith into action through service to the poor. CIC missionaries engage the chronically homeless in authentic friendships that affirm their human dignity and encourage them on the path to recovery and self-sufficiency through connection to local resources. For many, reclaiming belief in being worthy of love is the first step on this journey.

City Care
Project: City Care’s Homeless Services Program
Organization Mission: Our mission is to inspire those willing to look social injustice and extreme poverty in the face and empower them to do whatever it takes to create change. For over twenty years, City Care has been committed to identifying unmet urgent needs in the city and finding innovative and unduplicated methods to address them. We provide food for the hungry, relief for the hurting, and hold space for the complete restoration of lives that have gotten off course. With enough endurance, we witness, firsthand, remarkable stories of transformation.

Community Hope Center at Seneca Creek Community Church
Project: Community Hope Center at Seneca Creek Community Church
Organization Mission: The Community Hope Center at Seneca Creek Community Church is committed to fostering a resilient and diverse community. We meet essential needs through a range of comprehensive social services, including a Choice Pantry, free English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes, diaper distribution, free monthly health screenings, Supplemental Nutrition Application Program (SNAP) Assistance, Computer literacy, and case management. With strong community partnerships and a dedicated volunteer network, we strive for sustainable community integration.

Crop and Kettle
Project: Roots to Fruits – Crop & Kettle’s Faith-Based Farm-to-Table Workforce Training Program
Organization Mission: Crop & Kettle is a nonprofit, social enterprise that utilizes the food system to provide job training and faith-based social development to members of the community who are eager to overcome their current obstacles to employment and break cycles of generational poverty.

Dalit Solidarity
Project: Educational Empowerment through a Tuition Centre for Irular Tribe Children
Organization Mission: Dalit Solidarity is a USA based 501(c)(3) organization focused on caring for the least of God’s people, Dalits, a marginalized and segregated Indian population that has been oppressed for centuries. Because of the cruel legacy of the Indian Caste system, Dalit communities have experienced emotional and physical poverty for over five thousand years. For the past twenty-five years, Dalit Solidarity has worked steadily, primarily in the Tamil Nadu state, to provide India’s Dalits with the tools they need to improve their lives and their families’ lives. Dalit Solidarity seeks to alleviate the plight of these communities by providing care in the form of medical aid, housing, food, primary and secondary schools, and vocational education.

Daybreak, Inc.
Project: Food/Lindy’s Program
Organization Mission: To provide Miami Valley homeless and vulnerable youth with services that promote safety, stability, and well-being.

Design Outreach
Project: Water and the Word
Organization Mission: Design Outreach (DO) is a Christian nonprofit comprised of a global team of problem solvers dedicated to creating solutions to the biggest problems facing people in low-income countries. Motivated by our devotion to Jesus Christ and desire to share His love with others, DO is committed to meeting life’s most critical needs. The mission of DO is to alleviate global poverty through life-sustaining technology.

Drink Local Drink Tap, Inc.
Project: Creating Safe Water Systems for Rural Schools in Uganda
Organization Mission: To solve global water equity through education, advocacy, and community-centered water, sanitation, and hygiene projects. We achieve this by constructing Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) projects within Uganda’s most marginalized rural schools.

El Centro de Apoyo para la Comunidad, A.C.
Project: Promotion of Entrepreneurship Among Tseltal Indigenous Women and Youth
Organization Mission: The organization promotes social and solidarity-based economy initiatives within the Tseltal territory, applying an educational and intercultural approach to strengthen skills among individuals and groups. These efforts encourage sustainable economic alternatives rooted in cooperation and solidarity, aimed at improving the quality of life for communities and collaborators. Its vision is to consolidate resilient organizations where Indigenous farming communities and rural and urban workers—particularly women and youth—develop socio-entrepreneurial models based on shared values, addressing their environment, needs, and aspirations.

Escucha Mi Voz Iowa Catholic Worker
Project: Immigrant Housing and Legal Services Defense Project
Organization Mission: The mission of Escucha Mi Voz Iowa is to build the power of immigrant workers and people of faith to achieve human dignity and social justice in society. Our members envision a world of Love Thy Neighbor and promote the rights of workers, immigrants, poor people, and the climate through housing and legal services, community organizing, advocacy, and policy changes.

Evansville Rescue Mission, Inc.
Project: Evansville Center for Women & Children – Program Costs in Year One
Organization Mission: Evansville Rescue Mission exists to glorify God by meeting the basic needs of those we serve and by sharing with them the life-changing message that “Jesus Saves.”

Family Services Inc.
Project: Emergency Interpersonal Violence Shelter
Organization Mission: Family Services’ mission is to serve Forsyth County by providing professional services and participating in partnerships that foster the development of children, advocate the safety, security and success of families and individuals, and help build a sustainable community.

Freedom Firm USA
Project: End Sex Trafficking of Minor Girls in Uttar Pradesh, India
Organization Mission: Freedom Firm exists to eliminate child prostitution in India. We provide rescue, restoration and justice for victims of sex trafficking throughout the country.

Global Birthing Home Foundation
Project: Healthy Families in Rural Haiti
Organization Mission: To significantly reduce maternal and infant mortality rates in under-served communities. Global Birthing Home Foundation is the fiscal sponsor of Maison de Naissance, a birth center in southwest Haiti that has been serving the rural, impoverished community of Torbeck since 2004.

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton, Inc.
Project: Affordable Homeownership Program
Organization Mission: Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

Healthy Moms and Babes Inc.
Project: Maternal Outreach Mobile Van
Organization Mission: Healthy Moms & Babes is a Catholic-based organization that answers God’s call to serve at-risk women of childbearing age and their children so that they may survive and thrive. Healthy Moms and Babes ensures that women and children have access to needed services through the use of mobile units and home visits. Focusing on the individual, Healthy Moms and Babes commits to helping the community’s most vulnerable women achieve successful pregnancies, thriving babies, enhanced parenting skills, expanded understanding of personal health and progress toward self-sufficiency.

Heart of Missouri CASA
Project: Building a Brighter Future Capital Campaign
Organization Mission: Our mission is to train and support volunteers to be exceptional voices for every abused and neglected child in the Boone and Callaway County Family Courts. Each year, more than 650 children pass through the 13th Circuit Juvenile Court System because they are unable to live safely at home. Heart of Missouri CASA envisions a future where every child has a dedicated advocate, a safe home, and the opportunity to reach their full potential. By empowering volunteer advocates, we ensure children’s needs remain a priority in an overburdened system, helping them stay safe, have access to vital services, achieve permanency in loving homes, and experience the consistent care of an adult who stands by them throughout their time in foster care.

Home Roots Foundation
Project: 3-wheel motorcycle
Organization Mission: Our mission is to increase access to education and alleviate poverty in Haiti. Our purpose is to do God’s work by standing in solidarity with the poor and socially marginalized. Specifically, we empower women economically through entrepreneurship and sustainable livelihoods, while providing their children with access to quality education. We believe that focusing on women’s economic empowerment and children’s well-being is the most effective way to ensure no one is left behind. Therefore, to alleviate poverty, we primarily focus on the 45% of households led by women, who are generally poorer than men.

Jefferson County Community Ministries, Inc.
Project: Jefferson County Community Ministries
Organization Mission: As a ministry-based organization, JCCM uses the values of love and kindness to support clients in crisis and engage the community in these efforts. Motivated by a biblical imperative, we provide physical and spiritual support, addressing immediate needs while helping clients move toward independence and security. Through deeper client engagement, and customized services, JCCM focuses on long-term solutions that foster wholeness, self-sufficiency, and lasting stability.

Julia Greeley Home, Inc.
Project: Serving Homeless Women, Motivated to Rebuild their Lives, through the Julia Greeley Home
Organization Mission: Our mission is to give the woman who is alone and homeless the support and resources she needs to embrace her God-given dignity, rediscover her self-worth, and find renewed purpose in life. Realizing that she comes to us from traumatic circumstances, our staff reassures each woman that she is valued and cherished as an individual and as a child of God.

Laurel House DBA Hope Harbor
Project: Program Services for At-Risk and Homeless Teens
Organization Mission: Hope Harbor’s mission is to provide a home for teens in crisis, transform lives, and strengthen families. Hope Harbor is the only long-term, privately funded youth shelter for teens ages 12-17 in California. Youth who enter our program come families that struggle with addiction, abuse, poverty, incarceration, food insecurity, mental health issues, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, and low education levels. Hope Harbor provides intervention programs and comprehensive care for teens on the precipice of homelessness, criminalization, addiction, gang violence and human trafficking. Our goal is to move at-risk teens from a state of crisis to a life of opportunities.

Light House Rehabilitation Center dba Lighthouse Vocational Services
Project: Extending Transportation Access to Individuals with Disabilities
Organization Mission: Founded in 1975, the mission of Lighthouse Vocational Services (Lighthouse) is to promote growth, opportunity, and hope for persons with disabilities based on Christian values and principles. Lighthouse accomplishes its mission by providing high-quality, person-centered programming including vocational services, educational enrichment, and community integration experiences. The driving force of the organization is the belief that God created each individual with value and a purpose for life.

Margaret’s Village
Project: Transitional Housing and Empowerment Program to End Homelessness for Women, Children, and Families on Chicago’s South Side
Organization Mission: Margaret’s Village transforms lives through a Transitional Housing and Empowerment Program to End Homelessness for Women, Children and Families on Chicago’s South Side.

Miami Valley Nonprofit Collaborative
Project: Group Training Support for Faith-based Nonprofits 2025 – 2026
Organization Mission: With a belief that stronger nonprofits build a stronger community, the mission of the MVNC is to communicate, convene, and create resources that build the capacity of nonprofit agencies and the effectiveness of those who work in them. Serving those who Serve, we serve all levels of nonprofit professionals and board members with high quality yet affordable, accessible training programs We offer opportunities for area nonprofits to connect, share experiences, learn together and explore partnerships.

Mirror Ministries
Project: Esther’s Home – Recovery for Sex-Trafficked Girls aged 11-17
Organization Mission: Mirror Ministries’ mission is to respond to domestic minor sex trafficking with the love of Christ through local education, intervention, restoration, and aftercare.

Mission Flight
Project: Equipment for International Optical Clinics
Organization Mission: Through the air and on the ground, we compassionately connect people in need with hope, help, and healing. We fly healthcare professionals to impoverished people in Mexico to help meet their medical, dental, and optical needs. We fly our own aircraft to remote areas that are extremely difficult or impossible to reach by car. We also purchase & maintain all the equipment and supplies needed to operate our clinics.

Mission of Mary Cooperative
Project: Food is Love
Organization Mission: Mission of Mary Cooperative (MMC) is an urban farm in the Twin Towers neighborhood in east Dayton. MMC strives to catalyze sustainable urban development. MMC does this by growing and providing access to over 35 tons of nutrient-dense fresh produce. MMC serves neighbors who lack economic and/or geographic access to fresh food. MMC also provides gardening and nutrition education for Pre-K-8 to college students, and neighborhood residents. MMC works on abandoned land restoration, providing opportunities for residents to garden at home or community garden sites. And, demonstrating sustainable living practices. MMC works with other neighborhood nonprofits to help families and individuals thrive and end the multi-generational cycle of poverty.

Northlands Rescue Mission
Project: More Than Just A Shelter
Organization Mission: Empowering people experiencing homelessness, housing instability, or food insecurity to live more stable lives. The purpose of Northlands Rescue Mission is to provide emergency shelter for men, women, and families experiencing homelessness, to provide food supports to people in our region, and to help prevent homelessness for those experiencing housing instability.

Our Lady of Peace
Project: Hospice care at the residential hospice home at no charge to patients
Organization Mission: Called by God, Our Lady of Peace gently comforts and cares for those most in need near the end of their lives, wherever they call home, regardless of means.

Parenting for Non-Violence
Project: Parenting for Non-Violence
Organization Mission: The mission of Parenting for Non-Violence (P4NV) is to educate parents about how to raise their children in emotionally healthy ways,and support them as they learn so that their children can thrive personally, socially, and academically.

Partners in Ministry
Project: Partners in Ministry’s Youth Program Participants
Organization Mission: Partners In Ministry’s mission is “Instilling Hope and Empowering Change, One Family At A Time,” by helping to break the cycle of generational poverty in struggling communities and building and sustaining healthy communities. Our purpose is to nurture, equip, and unlock the potential of youth and children and to empower and strengthen families to become self-sufficient and change agents for their communities as we work together to build and sustain healthy communities.

Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
Project: Mindfulness Mentors
Organization Mission: The Earth & Spirit Center’s mission is to cultivate transformative learning and service opportunities dedicated to mindfulness, social justice, and care for the Earth. Our goal is to help create resilient communities and flourishing natural environments by inspiring compassion for oneself, others, and all living things.

Reach Out Honduras Inc.
Project: Quality Education and Holistic Care for Indigenous youth of La Mosquitia, Honduras
Organization Mission: Reach Out Honduras exists to foster hope and a brighter future for Indigenous youth living in multidimensional poverty in La Mosquitia, Honduras by reducing social and financial barriers to education. At Abundant Life Institute, our secondary school, we are dedicated to providing our students with safe, high-quality education and holistic care that nurtures their minds, bodies, and spirits. Our mission is to empower every student to thrive, dream big, and become all they are made to be.

Sangre de Cristo Health Care Project
Project: Access to Primary Medical Care Services for Marginalized Communities
Organization Mission: Health education, disease prevention and direct curative services are the three focus areas of the Sangre de Cristo Health Project. Provides access to affordable primary health care and programs which assist the population to develop knowledge and skills to improve their own health and well-being. Our mission of service includes 4 Medical Clinics, 4 Pharmacies, 2 Dental Clinics, 2 Laboratories, a Gynecology and Ultrasound Clinic, surgery campaign, medical/dental visits in remote villages, health education in schools, and Environmental Health Program. All services meet immediate health needs, as well as provide a focus for implementing a healthier way of life, having a long term positive impact on the quality of life of local families.

Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio
Project: Harvest for Hunger
Organization Mission: Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio’s mission is to grow hope in our region by creating pathways to nutritious food.

Sharing Excess
Project: 2025 OH Expansion: Rescuing Food, Feeding Communities
Organization Mission: Our mission is to solve the logistical barriers between excess and scarcity to efficiently rescue and distribute surplus from retailers, wholesalers, and farmers to a network of hunger relief organizations.

Society of St. Vincent de Paul, St. Matthew Conference
Project: Operating Support of Food Pantry, Rent and Utilities (R/U) Assistance, and Furniture Program
Organization Mission: For 56 years the mission of St. Vincent de Paul – St. Matthew Conference has been to lessen the growing economic burdens on low-income families and individuals living in Hillsboro, North Plains and Cornelius, OR. As the largest of 47 conferences in the Portland Council with over 90 active volunteers, we are committed to keeping our community fed and housed through three programs: a Food Pantry, Rent and Utilities Support, and the only Furniture Program offering free furniture and delivery in the Portland metropolitan area.

Sonshine Soup Kitchen
Project: Sonshine Meal Service Program
Organization Mission: For the glory of God, the Sonshine Soup Kitchen (Sonshine) feeds the hungry, clothes the cold and barefoot, and offers hope to the despairing. We are a no-barrier facility, serving free, nutritious meals to anyone in need.

Teach My People
Project: TMP Operations for After-School and Summer Programming
Organization Mission: Teach My People was established in 1999 to provide integrated support for students from impoverished communities. Since then, our mission has been to teach children and youth in partnering schools to overcome academic, economic, and social challenges and impact families through the delivery of Christ-centered programs and services that promote spiritual, educational, physical, and emotional growth.

The HomeMore Project
Project: Makeshift Traveler backpack for the Homeless in Los Angeles
Organization Mission: Our Mission is to uplift the homeless community in California by building a culture of genuine relationships while focusing on the centralization of resources and providing realistic yet innovative solutions to an ongoing crisis.

The Paw in Hand Project, Inc.
Project: Paw Care Program
Organization Mission: The Paw in Hand Project believes pets are a gift from God. We recognize the significance pets play in the lives of those we serve. We meet our clients where they are in their healing journey, returning choice to them by providing options for their pet while they seek their own safety.

The Rural Outreach Center, Inc.
Project: Empowering the Rural Marginalized in southern Western New York
Organization Mission: The ROC’s mission is to eradicate rural poverty in SWNY. The ROC addresses the unique needs of those navigating poverty and complex traumas in rural communities by recognizing the dignity of each person and providing resources and opportunities for each to attain their self-identified goals.

The Salvation Army Western Div.
Project: Pathway of Hope
Organization Mission: The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination. The Salvation Army offers a holistic loving approach to people in crisis, meeting basic needs and providing case management with spiritual support. The Salvation Army of Omaha, which oversees a three-state area, is leading a regional shift from transactional service to The Pathway of Hope model, which uses every interaction as an opportunity to break the cycle of crisis and put families with children living in poverty on a path to self-sufficiency.

The Spring Shelter, Inc.
Project: The Spring Shelter – serving survivors fleeing abuse
Organization Mission: Providing advocacy, a safe escape, and ongoing Christ-like care for victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, and human sex trafficking.

Union Gospel Mission Association of Spokane
Project: Operational Support for Union Gospel Mission
Organization Mission: Partnering with the Inland Northwest to reach the poor with the love and power of the gospel so they may become God-dependent, contributing members of society.

World Link Ministries, Inc.
Project: India Education Through Evangelism Program Expansion
Organization Mission: World Link Ministries equips and mobilizes local evangelists and church planters to establish, sustain, and reproduce the body of Christ in regions with the greatest need for churches. Our vision is to ignite revival in some of the world’s most challenging areas by establishing evangelistic churches that are multinational in scope, locally led and sustained, and highly effective in reaching a significant percentage of the population for Christ. We achieve this mission through three programs: Leadership Training, Accelerated Church Planting, and Evangelism. These initiatives equip national Christian leaders to minister effectively within their own countries, fostering a continuous cycle of disciples becoming disciple-makers.

Xavier Jesuit Academy
Project: Wrap Around Support for XJA students in need of IEPs
Organization Mission: Xavier Jesuit Academy’s (XJA) mission is to prepare young men to be leaders and “Men for Others” through disciplined academic preparation for life, in the Catholic-Jesuit tradition, while enriching their families and communities.