Support for Community-Controlled Anti-Poverty Programs

Catholic Campaign for Human Development: Community Organizing Grants
The mission of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is to address the root causes of poverty in the United States through the support of community-controlled, self-help organizations and through transformative education. CCHD's Community Organizing Grants support projects in which poor and marginalized people join together to seek solutions to local problems and find ways to improve their lives and neighborhoods. Applying organizations must demonstrate a change from traditional approaches to poverty by attacking the basic causes of poverty and by effecting institutional change. Eligible projects should directly benefit a poverty group who, in turn, should have the dominant voice in the project. The Pre-application Eligibility Quiz, available on the CCHD website, may be submitted between September 1 and November 1, 2009. (Organizations are strongly encouraged to submit their quiz prior to the November 1st deadline.) Online applications for new applicants are due December 15, 2009. Visit the CCHD website for details on the Community Organizing Grants program.