The board of directors of the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland recently approved $345,000 in grants for the first quarter of 2018. Funding for this quarter is concentrated primarily around efforts to end homelessness, as well as to continue to strengthen the community’s resources through collaboration and partnerships. These grants support a wide range of essential organizations whose programs and initiatives serve to combat many of poverty’s root causes. [More]

Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland board members Woodrow Whitlow Jr. and Robyn Gordon were honored at halftime of a recent Cleveland Cavaliers home basketball game for their contributions to NASA. The Cavaliers honored historic African American astronauts and other black pioneers in space travel during the halftime ceremony. [More]

The Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina held South Carolina’s first Kinship Care Day at the Capitol March 20 outside the state’s capitol building in Columbia. The gathering included grandparents, state legislators, South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) representatives, and numerous local kinship care supporters.

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The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland helped organize an intercongregational, intergenerational event March 10 that attracted more than 130 sisters, associates and young adults celebrating the contributions of women religious in the community and exploring news ways for Catholic sisters and lay partners to be companions to one another. [More]

The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland is supporting National Catholic Sisters Week (NCSW), an annual celebration that takes place from March 8-14 created to honor Catholic sisters. The foundation is devoted to sharing the important work taking place by Catholic sisters throughout the nation and is lifting up their voices by sharing Sister Stories, including one about the Collinwood Neighborhood Catholic Ministries, a grantee of the foundation's Collaboration of Ministry Initiative. [More]

As a fellow in The Innovation Mission at Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland and an attorney at The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, Hazel Remesch is exploring ways to provide legal counsel to Cleveland residents facing eviction. The foundation will be sharing the fellows' journey over the course of 18 months. First up in its fellows series is Remesch. Her article is titled "Facing Eviction, Good Luck Getting a Lawyer." [More]

Si Se Puede (SSP) is a non-profit organization in Columbia, South Carolina, that seeks to support Latino students in their schools and beyond. Its Student Interpreter program (SI) trains bilingual Latino students in both academic and professional skills to become Spanish interpreters. The Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina has awarded a grant to SSP that allows for second-year students in the program to take a test showing their proficiency in English and Spanish. [More]

The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland (SOCF) has been awarded a $750,000 three-year grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to expand Generative Spirit, an SOCF-led effort to develop the next generation of leaders for sister-led ministries in Northeast Ohio. [More]

Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland Program Officer Angela D’Orazio and two leaders who have seen the end of chronic/vet homelessness in their communities joined Funders Together to End Homelessness to share insight on ending homelessness during a recent webinar. [More]

National Catholic Sisters Week runs from March 8-14 and the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland is helping celebrate through involvement with the “Celebrate Catholic Sisters: Turning to Each Other” event March 10 at Magnificat High School in Rocky River. The intercongregational, intergenerational event is open the public and will celebrate the contributions of women religious in the community and explore news ways for Catholic sisters and lay partners to be companions to one another. [More]