The practice of making New Year’s resolutions goes back over 3000 years. The start of a New Year gives us the feeling of a fresh start, a new beginning, and new opportunities. It is a time when people feel that they can begin anew with their lives.
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Response to #iGiveCatholic continues to grow in the fourth year of diocesan participation. New records were set in dollars raised and number of donors supporting causes.
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#iGiveCatholic is a powerful, 24-hour online giving event to unite Catholics across the nation (and the world!) to come together and raise as many charitable dollars as possible for Catholic parishes, schools, and nonprofit ministries. Join us in this giving day, facilitated by the Catholic Foundation of Northwest Pennsylvania, for the ministries in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie.
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The Catholic Foundation of Northwest Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that seven (7) grants totaling $53,800 were awarded during its Catholic Social Ministry grant cycle. Grants are awarded in this area to ministries and projects that embrace and align with Catholic social teaching and are answering the Gospel call to respond to needs within the community.
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Catholic Foundation Legacy Society members were honored at a recent gathering of donors, board members, staff, and friends of the Foundation.
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With joy and gratitude we are pleased to share with you the Catholic Foundation’s 2021 Community Impact Report. This report demonstrates the growth of the Foundation and its impact on our Catholic community in partnership with donors.
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The Catholic Foundation of Northwest Pennsylvania is happy to be celebrating 15 years of service to our community. The Catholic Foundation was founded on July 18, 2007, with a mission to provide for the long term needs of Catholic ministries in northwest Pennsylvania.
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Catholic Foundation of Northwest Pennsylvania Awards $34,865 in Spring 2022 Grant Cycle
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We are excited to welcome Elizabeth Rathburn to the Catholic Foundation team as Development Associate.
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For those immersed in the secular world, Easter is long over. The pastel bunnies, the chocolate eggs, the color-splashed jelly beans which appeared in the marketplace so temptingly just as Christians were beginning the fasting of Lent, have long been swept from the store shelves to be replaced in anticipation of the next marketable holiday. For the Christian steward, how backward this all seems.
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