Human DevelopmentCatholic Campaign for

2013Annual Report

... So That From The Rising Of The Sun To Its Setting A Pure Sacrifice May Be Offered To Your Name. – Eucharistic Prayer III, Roman Missal

The measure of the greatness of a

society is found in the way it treats

those most in need, those who have

nothing apart from their poverty.“

— Pope Francis

“

“The CCHD calls us to sow the

hope of Jesus Christ by shaping

our society on God’s love, opposing

injustice, and saturating our common

life with charity in truth.

“

— Francis Cardinal George

INTRODUCTION

Since its inception, the presence of the Catholic Campaign for Human

Development (CCHD) in the Chicagoland area has been a witness to

the gospel mandate to “bring glad tidings to the poor” (Luke 4:18).

For nearly 44 years, the CCHD has confronted the root causes and

structures of poverty by partnering with hundreds of organizations.

These organizations have worked tirelessly to bring about justice to

the most vulnerable members of our society by empowering them to

become agents of change in their own communities and neighborhoods.

From legislative campaigns for affordable housing to reaching out to

imperiled youth through art and peace circles to seeking justice for the

unborn, the CCHD and its grantees are radically changing Chicago in the

areas most in need.

CCHD brings to life and animates the Social

Teachings of the Church by shedding light

on community, integrality, and solidarity.

In Him,

“ “

Chicago Catholics have answered the call of Pope Benedict XVI:

“Love demands justice” (Caritas in Veritate, 2009). It is precisely

this deep love of neighbor, especially the most vulnerable of our

society, which impels Chicago’s faithful to support the CCHD

through their generous donations. The collection that takes place

in November is the Campaign’s primary source of funding and

plays a crucial role in making it possible to fund organizations

that helps persons with disabilities advocate for a better quality

of life; empower low-income immigrants to fight against wage-

theft; advocate for awareness, healing, and justice in the silent

epidemic of domestic violence; create jobs throughout economic

development in blighted neighborhoods; and so much more. Your

prophetic support of the CCHD brings to life and animates the

Social Teachings of the Church by shedding light on community,

integrality, and solidarity.

In his address at the Varginha Favela in Rio de Janeiro, Pope

Francis highlighted the necessity of solidarity, a key element in

the mission of CCHD, saying, “Everyone, according to his or her

particular opportunities and responsibilities, should be able to

make a personal contribution to putting an end to so many social

injustices.” May his words resonate to the deepest parts of our

being, so that we may become the vessels that help transform our

beloved City. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of our grantees

and volunteers for their powerful commitment “to putting an end

to so many social injustices,” and living those words so selflessly.

On behalf of Cardinal George, the Office for Peace and Justice, and

those uplifted and empowered through support of the CCHD, may

God continue to bless you and your generosity.

Allocations Committee

MEMBERS 2013 Allocations Committee

St. Francis Xavier

St. Leonard

St. Athanasius

St. Joseph Seminary

St. Clement

St. Philip Neri Parish

St. Theresa Palatine

St. Catherine Laboure

St. Gertrude

St. Thomas the Apostle

Maureen Lang

Julie O’Reilly Castillo

Rev. Tom Libera

Rev. Larry Maddock

Michael Donovan

Andre Rawls

Leo Miklius

Ray Gavin

Bob Raccuglia

William Spielberger

AMOUNT AWARDED ORGANIZATION AREA

$40,000.00 Developing Communities Project Transit Equity Initiative

$35,000.00 Lake County SponsorsAffordable Housing &

Senior / Nursing Care Issues

Lake County Center for Independent Living$35,000.00 Disability Rights &

Leadership Empowerment

$65,000.00 Latino UnionWorker’s Rights &

Leadership Development

$25,000.00 Northwest Side Housing CenterAffordable Housing & Parent

Leadership Education

$70,000.00 Progress Center for Independent Living

Disability Rights & Leadership Empowerment

$50,000.00 Restaurant Opportunities Center

Worker’s Rights & Leadership Development

$25,000.00 Waukegan to CollegeParent Leadership

Education Empowerment

NATIONAL GRANTEES

AMOUNT AWARDED

Developing Communities Project, Inc. was established in 1984; it arose out of the Calumet Community Religious Conference as an answer to the massive lay-offs and the closing of the manufacturing plants in Southeast Chicago. DCP evolved into an organization focused on advocacy, building leaders, and empowering communities through

organizing. DCP organizes via institutions, training leaders, multi-issues, and the understanding of collective leadership. The major

issues that DCP addresses center on Transit Orientated and Economic Development, Youth Education and Development, and Environmental

Equities. Outside of organizing around youth violence, town hall meetings to address water and air pollution, one of the premier issues

we focus on is transit equity. Through the community organizer, we have organized congregations, businesses, and various other

stakeholders to assist in our efforts to extend the Redline. We believe that our holistic transit equity initiative can help impact violence,

economic development, and various other disparities that impact our community. It is with the support of CCHD that we are progressing in

our endeavors; DCP shares these good works and joys with CCHD.

Transit Equity Initiative | $40,000

Lake County Sponsors is an independent, non-partisan organization of thirty-four churches, synagogues, mosques, civic and non-profit

institutions from across Lake County that have joined together across religious, geographic, racial, and economic lines to fight for the common good on issues of shared concern in northern

Illinois. Over its ten year history, Lake County Sponsors has worked to improve education, access to health care, access to housing for seniors and people with disabilities, and civic engagement.

Currently, the organization is working to promote access to health care, affordable, accessible housing for low income resident and

people with disabilities, and pushing Lake County to preserve and rebuild its nursing home for low-income seniors.

Affordable Housing & Senior / Nursing Care Issues | $35,000

Lake County Sponsors

2013CCHDNATIONAL GRANTEES

Developing Communities Project

Lake County Center for Independent Living (LCCIL) recruits, trains, mobilizes leaders to achieve equal access for people

with disabilities. Lake County has few affordable accessible housing options and limited public transportation for people with

disabilities, seniors, and those of low income. Activities resulted in the expansion of a transportation pilot project to include new

destinations in the county, this pilot now involves one third of the townships in Lake County. Additionally, we are working to create

housing options that are both affordable and accessible in Lake County; addressing concerns such as geographic location, access to

public transportation and medical care, and provider choice.

Disability Rights & Leadership Empowerment | $35,000

Lake County Center for Independent Living

Latino UnionWorker’s Rights & Leadership Development | $65,000

The Chicago Coalition of Household Workers, a new program of Latino Union, initiated the Illinois Domestic Worker Bill of Rights

campaign to end domestic workers 75 years of exclusion from labor laws. Just Pay for All Coalition’s sweeping reforms to Illinois labor

laws to combat wage theft enabled the Illinois Department of Labor to increase their recovery of stolen wages by an impressive 50% in 2012, totaling $6.2 million. Café Chicago is a fair trade and organic

coffee roaster social enterprise that is emboldening the worker’ cooperative movement in the Midwest. Latino Union is greatly

honored to be the recipient of the Sister Cafferty Development of People award from CCHD.

2013CCHDNATIONAL GRANTEES

With the support of CCHD, the Northwest Side Housing Center is empowering low-income families and seniors on the northwest

side of Chicago. Through our Parent Mentor Program, we are improving early childhood learning in the Belmont-Cragin

neighborhood by institutionalizing parents’ role in the school system and strengthening families in the community. In 2013,

we developed 35 parents into leaders within their schools and community and improved the learning environment for low income kids in three schools. Through our successful tenant organizing, we have helped organize the Montclare Senior Residences where their victories have improved living conditions and increased safety for

over 300 low income seniors.

Affordable Housing & Parent Leadership Education | $25,000

Northwest Side Housing Center

Progress Center for Independent Living is a non-profit, non-residential, consumer controlled disability rights organization

serving suburban Cook County, Illinois. As a part of the disability rights movement, Progress Center’s mission is to build a society in

which people with disabilities shall have the same freedoms, rights, and civil liberties as everyone else. They directly assist individuals

with all types of disabilities and a wide range of accommodation needs to achieve their self-determined goals. PCIL also engages

in social justice advocacy for the rights of people with disabilities on the local, state and national levels. One of their main successes

is a fought won on May 8th, for the Cook County Commissioners to adopt the Source of Income amendment in its Human Rights Ordinance. This is a big victory for Progress Center and people

with disabilities living in suburban Cook County.

Disability Rights & Leadership Empowerment | $70,000

Progress Center for Independent Living

2013CCHDNATIONAL GRANTEES

Waukegan to College (W2C)W2C helps students prepare, enroll, and graduate from college. W2C serves low income families of color, the majority Latino immigrants. Need: With a poverty rate of 70% in

Waukegan, there is a desperate need for children to pursue higher education as a path out of poverty. In a community with a failing

school system and a lack of college-going-culture, the odds of getting to college are extremely long. The average ACT score is 16.5, and only 23% of students meet or exceed performance at grade level.

Accomplishments: In 2011, a Parent Leaders Team was formed to build relationships, develop as leaders, and push for education reforms.

Parent Leadership Education & Empowerment | $25,000

Waukegan to College

Launched in the fall of 2008, the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Chicago (ROC Chicago) is a multiracial membership-based

organization, dedicated to improving wages and working conditions and increasing opportunities for advancement for low-wage workers

in one of the Chicago’s fastest-growing sectors. With almost 250,000 workers, the restaurant industry is one of the largest sectors of the Chicago economy, yet while this sector has experienced growth we

have seen that the quality of industry jobs has continued to dissipate. ROC’s report, Behind the Kitchen Door: The Hidden Cost of Taking

the Low Road in Chicagoland’s Thriving Restaurant Industry, showed that segments of the industry are plagued by abusive and unlawful

employment practices, poverty wages, poor working conditions, and discrimination. Furthermore, the industry is highly polarized: while

some workers enjoy good working conditions, living wages, and job security, many experience a dramatically different reality. This division often occurs along lines of race, gender, and immigration status, with

workers of color, immigrants, and women being concentrated in the industry’s lowest paid positions. To address inequities and accomplish its mission ROC Chicago employs a tri-pronged strategy toaccomplish its mission, including: {1} conducting industry research anddeveloping policies to lift conditios industry-wide; {2} partnering with responsible employers to conduct job training and placement support to help low-

wage workers obtain living-wage jobs; and {3} supporting restaurant workers in confronting exploitation in the workplace.

Worker’s Rights & Leadership Development | $50,000

Restaurant Opportunities Center

2013CCHDNATIONAL GRANTEES

LOCAL GRANTEES

AMOUNT AWARDEDAMOUNT

AWARDED ORGANIZATION AREA

$20,000.00 Office for Immigration Affairs & Immigration Education

Immigrant Empowerment Project

$20,000.00 Interfaith Leadership Project Immigration Leadership Development Ministry

Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation$20,000.00 St, John of God

Community Garden

$20,000.00 St. Pius V ParishResourcing Domestic

Violence Ministries

$20,000.00 United Power for Action and Justice

Organizing for Supportive Housing

$20,000.00 Warehouse Workers for JusticeOrganizing for

Supportive Housing

$20,000.00 Jane Addams Senior Caucus Affordable Housing

$15,000.00 Mercy Housing Lakefront Tenant Leadership Project

$20,000.00 Companies that Care AIM High

St. Agnes of Bohemia$15,000.00 Imago Dei

$15,000.00 Parenting for Nonviolence Parenting for Nonviolence

AMOUNT AWARDED ORGANIZATION AREA

$15,000.00 Metropolitan Tenants Organization

Healthy Homes Program Mandatory

Inspection & Compliance EnforcementProject

$15,000.00 ONE Northside

Affordable Housing Preservation

& Creation Project

Most Blessed Trinity$20,000.00 Faith & Public Life

$20,000.00 Catholic CharitiesRefugee Women’s

Art Group

$15,000.00 Alliance of the SoutheastDevelopment

not Displacement

$20,000.00 Warehouse Workers for JusticeOrganizing for

Supportive Housing

$20,000.00 Target Area Development Justice At Work

$20,000.00 Repect Life Office Gospel of Life Project

$10,000.00 Zacchaeus House Zacchaeus House

Life Directions$5,000.00South Lawndale Neighborhood

Discernment Community Peaceable Gardens Project

$5,000.00 Brothers & Sisters of Love The Unity Project

$10,000.00 Community & Relatives of Illinois Incarcerated Children

Family Outreach & Legislative Action

LOCAL GRANTEES AMOUNT AWARDED

Interfaith Leadership Project (ILP) founded by 1989 by Cardinal Bernardin is a faith based organization with 22 years working with the community to develop the necessary tools to collectible work

to improve social justice. Last April, after months of meetings and testimonies from the community, the City of Berwyn has

implemented a new policy which will allow Berwyn Police discretion when pulling over and unlicensed driver. Mayor Robert

Lovero opened doors to ILP and worked with us to find a solutions that made sense for the community amd the City of Berwyn. The

police officer will now be able to allow the unlicensed driver to call a relative or friends that has a valid driver’s license to pick up

the car in order to avoid the $500 impoundment and the $200 + towing feeds. The City of Berwyn also sent its police force

to an Ethnic Sensitivity training that will allow them to better understand and serve the community. ILP focuses on community

development and community education by holding Know Your Right Trainings in all its memeber insituations.

Interfaith LeadershipImmigrant Empowerment Project | $20,000

The Archdiocese of Chicago created the Office for Immigrant Affairs in 2009 to welcome, accompany and empower immigrants toward

their formation and integration as full members of society in the one family of God. Our immigrant leadership development ministry in the Hispanic community, called Pastoral Migratoria, engages over

300 Hispanic lay leaders (60 Hispanic parishes) in service and justice actions. CCHD funding will support the deepening and expansion of Pastoral Migratoria in suburban North and Southwest Chicago,

which have heavy immigrant concentrations and poverty levels up to 26%. Since January we’ve trained 26 new leaders for this ministry,

which since April has led the collection of 100,000 postcards in 150 parishes asking their legislators’ support for compassionate

comprehensive immigration reform.

Office for ImmigrationImmigration Leadership Development Ministry | $20,000

2013CCHDLOCAL GRANTEES

2013CCHDLOCAL GRANTEES

Real accomplishments have been realized since the last report: twelve more raised bed boxes (24 in total), an outdoor labyrinth,

development in the peace garden, a new basketball court, etc. Both families and youth are making use of the outdoor space:

gardening together, playing basketball, walking the labyrinth, etc. Young people are learning job skills, urban farming (an area of real growth in the city), self awareness and leadership skills. The youth are able to work side-by-side with older community residents that

enable the generational gap to be slowly eliminated. Youth are learning skills and the community is bringing forth other ideas for

other projects.

Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation

St. John of God Community Garden | $20,000

St. Pius V parish in Chicago will resource faith-based organizations, especially Catholic parishes and entities throughout the Archdocese

of Chicago, to create greater awareness about domestic violence, which directly affects one in four women in our midst and causes victims nationwide to lose nearly 8 million days of paid work each

year. The project will develop parish ministries and build a network of churches to assist them and their children. With 13 years of

experience of a formal, bilingual, parish-based domestic violence program, St. Pius V is uniquely qualified to support parishes and

other archdiocesan institutions in creating effective pastoral responses to victims of domestic violence.

St. Pius VResourcing Domestic Violence Ministries | $20,000

2013CCHDLOCAL GRANTEES

United Power is a Cook County–wide, broad–based citizens organization dedicated to building power through relationships

across race, class, religion, political affiliation, and geography to take action on justice issues. Since 2010, Illinois has settled three class action lawsuits calling for our state to move at least 15,000

people with disabilities out of institutions and nursing homes into integrated community settings within 5 years.Our campaign

will generate much-needed housing for people with disabilities by: identifying local housing needs, shaping strong proposals,

mapping out the path to funding and approval and running campaigns to move the proposals from drawing board to the

grand opening in four distinct geographic areas of the region.

United Power for Action and Justice

Organizing for Supportive Housing | $20,000

Warehouse Workers for Justice was founded in 2009 to transform the distribution industry from one that supplies poverty temp jobs to our communities into one that provides living wage jobs with dignity that can sustain families. Our mission is to shape policies that improve the

lives of low income people, engage and activate communities through community organizing to resolve systemic inequities and promote

economic justice and racial equality. Recently, WWJ launched the Special Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination to end the abuse of women working in warehouses; WWJ is also working towards

ending employment discrimination based on criminal background through local legislation.

Warehouse Workers for Justice

Warehouse Workers for Justice | $20,000

2013CCHDLOCAL GRANTEES

Jane Addams Senior Caucus (JASC) is an effective, grassroots membership organization fighting for social justice, which

happens to be led by senior. We envision a world where all seniors can age with dignity and safety, free of ageism, racism

and other forms of oppression. To achieve this vision, we build power for lasting social change through simultaneous strategies

of a commitment to leadership development as central to all organizing; creating strategies that are informed by a power

analysis; and an investment in strategic alliance-building JASC has a proud history of effective community organizing and advocacy

on health care, housing and other issues. We are known for turning out large numbers of members to public rallies, hearings,

and press events. Some of our most important achievements are: awarded the 2008 Community Organizing Award which recognizes excellence in community organizing from Woods

Fund, Chicago Community Trust, Wieboldt Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation; in FY 10 passed strong and extensive

nursing home reform legislation; organized successfully for the preservation and renovation of Kenmore Apartments as

an affordable senior building which reopened in the winter of 2010; worked with tenants of Lincoln Park Plaza and 4910 N.

Sheridan to win a five year Section 8 contract renewal; because of JASC ongoing pressure, Chicago Housing Authority made

the redevelopment of Pomeroy, an affordable senior property, a priority which reopened in the fall of 2011; because of the ongoing pressure of our allies and JASC the CHA has leased up 661 vacant

units since April 2012.

Jane Addams Senior CaucusOrganizing for Supportive Housing | $20,000

The Mercy Housing Lakefront Tenant Leadership Project is a group of committed supportive housing tenants who strive to create a better community for all. These leaders work together within

their buildings and their neighborhoods on campaigns which promote creativity, respect, integrity, diversity, inclusiveness,

and unity. Through, conducting community outreach, developing relationships with public officials, and facilitating collaborative

partnerships, they are active agents for community change in the areas of transportation, food security, disability rights, affordable

housing and employment. Tenant Leaders also motivate others to be agents of change through conducting voter registration,

candidate education and leadership training/mentorship within their buildings and the broader community.

Mercy Housing LakefrontTenant Leadership Project | $15,000

2013CCHDLOCAL GRANTEES

The Imago Dei project from St. Agnes of Bohemia Parish is an arts intervention mentoring program that focuses on youth violence prevention through artistic training and academic development. Our mission is to passionately help flourish the identity of at-risk youth through the arts, mentoring, and the faith by transforming

them into agents of change for the community. Through a referral system with local private and public schools we hope to reach the boys (grades 6-8) who are most susceptible towards gang

affiliation, while at the same time challenging the structures which foster a cycle of poverty and violence.

St. Agnes of BohemiaImago Dei | $15,000

Center for Companies That Care improves the lives of disadvantaged individuals and families, and engages employers

to give back to communities. AIM High, our non-competitive college access, graduation, and leadership program increases the percentage of low-income CPS students who earn 4-year

college degrees from 6% to 54%. We partner with students from 7 high schools, their families/guardians, local companies, etc. to

deliver the curriculum between 9th grade and college graduation. Outcomes: 91% student retention in program; 100% matched with

long-term mentors; 100% on-time high school matriculation and graduation; 100% college acceptance (54% accepted to selective

colleges); 97% college enrollment/attendance (with 40% attending selective colleges); and 70% active parent/guardian participation.

Companies That CareAIM High | $20,000

2013CCHDLOCAL GRANTEES

P4NV provides parenting skills education along with referrals to ancillary support serives to parents of children who live in at risk communities. P4NV empowers families to raise their children in

emotionally healthy ways – creating a viable pathaway for social and economic prosperity. The most insidious cause of ineffective

parenting is poverty. Evdience-based studies correlate violent conflict and chronic pverty. For youth ages 10 – 24 years old,

homocide is the leading cause of death for African Americans and the second leading cause of death for Hispanics (CDC 2012).

Parent and family baes otervemtopms are among the most promising strategies for producing long term redictopm om

youth violence (WHO 2002) Curriculums are research based and led by professionally trained parent educators. Trained 15

parent educators and have partnered with 5 churches in at risk communties to host parenting skills training workshops.

Parenting for Nonviolence

Parenting for Nonviolence | $15,000

Metropolitan Tenants Organization’s (MTO) mission is to educate, organize and empower tenants to have a voice in the decisions that affect the affordability and availability of safe,decent and accessible housing. MTO’s Healthy Homes Program is working to introduce a Mandatory Inspection Policy in Chicago, which

will ensure that rental properties in high-risk areas are regularly inspected for health hazards. This year we have increased tenant’s leadership skills, researched the success of these programs across

the country and met with public officials to gain support. We are grateful to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development for

support of this project.

Metropolitan Tenants OrganizationHealthy Homes Program Mandatory Inspection & Compliance Enforcement Project | $15,000

2013CCHDLOCAL GRANTEES

Organization Neighborhoods for Equality: Northside (ONE Northside) is a community organization resulting from the merger

of Lakeview Action Coalition and Organization of the Northeast. Together, ONE and LAC have a history of nearly 60 years of

powerful and effective community organizing. ONE Northside started on July 1, 2013. ONE Northside organizes people from

over 100 institutions, as well as individual community residents, from Rogers Park, Edgewater, Uptown, Ravenswood, North Center,

Lake View, and Lincoln Park. ONE Northside will continue LAC and ONE’s organizing to preserve very affordable housing in our

gentrifying communities. In the next year, ONE Northside will move forward a policy to preserve SRO housing, andorganize tenants to

preserve over 100 SRO units and 2-4 Section 8 buildings.

Affordable Housing Preservation & Creation Project | $15,000

ONE Northside

2013CCHDLOCAL GRANTEES

In fiscal year 2013 CCHD funding allowed Most Blessed Trinity’s “Faith and Public Life” ministry leaders to advocate for undocumented immigrants in their community by working with

Illinois State Senators and State Representatives to help pass legislation which provides driver’s licenses for the undocumented

in Illinois. After passage of this important legislation, their ministry leaders educated the public on the next steps for legally obtaining

an Illinois driver’s license, which includes proper driver training as well as obtaining proper insurance. The ministry leaders at

Most Blessed Trinity work diligently to educate and empower our community with these new opportunities. This has helped to make

roads safer in Illinois.

Faith and Public Life | $20,000

Most Blessed TrinityCatholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Program, with support from CCHD, is launching a social enterprise for refugee women.

Women from Iraq, Burma, Congo and Afghanistan gather together weekly to produce beautiful handmade products designed in collaboration with local Chicago artists. Women will have the

opportunity to create, market and sell their products as an additional source of income for their families. Training focused on financial literacy and necessary skills associated with savings and earnings will be offered to each of the women. As a result of this

social enterprise, women who have fled war and violence from all over the world will have the opportunity to work together in

Chicago, learn new skills, produce beautiful handmade products, earn an income, and be a part of a community of creative and

enterprising women.

Refugee Women’s Art Group | $20,000

Catholic Charities

2013CCHDLOCAL GRANTEES

Target Area Development Corp. is a multi-issue grassroots leadership development organization that works for social justice

reform and systemic change. Our “Justice At Work” Criminal Justice Awareness Campaign will build support around the

anticipated State Mandated Reentry Plan ensuring that the State provides returning citizens with basic services and resources

needed to deter recidivism and assist with successful, productive reintegration into society. We served 4,042 returning citizens with reentry services such as Mentoring Sessions, Anger Management

Classes, Education Services, Job Readiness Training, Employment Assistance, and our Client Choice Food Pantry during 2012-13. We

sponsored the following bills that passed in Springfield to help remove barriers to reentry.

Justice At Work | $20,000

Target Area Development Corp.

The Alliance of the SouthEast (ASE) is a multicultural, interfaith alliance consisting of churches, schools, businesses, and

community organizations that prioritize grassroots participation to address the challenges facing the neighborhoods of SouthEast

Chicago, an area that has traditionally been void of community organizing.Lakeside Development is a project managed by

McCaffery Interests, Inc and will take place on the former US Steel Works site in South Shore/South Chicago. Lakeside Development

is the largest new development taking place today and will cover an area over two times the size of the Loop. It will create

over 100,000 jobs, retail space, and both rental housing and home ownership opportunities. Development Not Displacement

is a campaign that seeks to bring opportunity back into our communities. We are working in coalition with residents and

neighborhood organizations on a Community Benefits Agreement with Lakeside Development to: 1} increase transparency and

include South Chicago residents in the plan for the Development, 2} employ local residents in construction jobs as well as create opportunities for local businesses to occupy retail space within

the development once it’s completed, 3} create affordable rental housing as well as homeownership opportunities for local

residents, 4} give tax benefits for long-time residents, and 5}create a partnership with local schools.

Development not Displacement | $20,000

Alliance of the SouthEast

2013CCHDLOCAL GRANTEES

The Gospel of Life Youth Leadership Training Program of the Respect Life Office’s Chastity Education Initiative was created

in 2011 with the goal of educating low-income youth on chastity, respect for life, and leadership skills in order to help them address

the root causes of moral, spiritual and economic poverty in their communities. We have found that 1 out of 5 sexually active teen girls

become pregnant, and that single mothers are more likely to live in poverty. Children of single mothers tend to continue the cycle of poverty. Not only has this project effectively trained youth leaders to personally embrace chastity and respect for life, but also it has

empowered them to bring the message to their peers.

Gospel of Life Project | $20,000

Respect Life

The Peaceable Garden Project is a journey into hope for communities affected by violence. It centers its activities in South

Lawndale and East Garfield Park. In these communities, high school students, adult mentors and servant leaders are recruited

and trained to initiate peacebuilding through urban gardening. Self-supported adults that guide the project are trained through the Life Directions’ focus: LIFE Process. The goal of the project

is to “wake up” students to the values needed to manage and transform conflict, and for peers to inspire peers through forgiving.

The daily responsibilities associated with caring for an urban garden are used to develop teens in teamwork, leadership, trust,

communication, and negotiation.

South Lawndale Neighborhood Discernment Community - Peaceable Gardens Project | $5,000

Life Directions

2013CCHDLOCAL GRANTEES

Brothers and Sisters of Love is working with Core Kondition Ministry, Brothers Standing Together (two grass roots

organizations founded by men who grew up in Cabrini Green), LaSalle Street Church, and the Near North Unity Project, to bring

three factions from Cabrini Green and Marshall Fields Garden together for reconciliation between rival gangs who have been warring with each other over the last couple of years, but with

heightened gun violence recently. In an effort to break down the boundaries that separate youth, they are bringing together

young people to help them develop skills to resolve conflicts non-violently, basing playing basketball with scripture, prayer, food, and guidance, and building trust and friendship between warring youth.

The Unity Project | $5,000

Brothers and Sisters of LoveZacchaeus House

Zaccheaus House | $10,000

Zacchaeus House is a non-profit, non-treatment residential facility that provides a faith-to-work home for homeless and needy men

in transition. The ministry is staffed and supported by Catholic Deacons,. Deacon Candidates, their wives and by lay individuals

and groups from the Archdiocese of Chicago. The men who come to Zacchaeus House are experiencing homelessness and are

often in need of rebuilding self-esteem, restoring the fundamental dignity of their human lives, and the time to heal. Zacchaeus House provides housing, basic health care, opportunities for sharpening life skills and for spiritual growth, aftercare, and

emergency assistance. A fundamental aspect of the mission of Zacchaeus House that roots it with the Catholic Campaign for

Human Development is to develop a membership organization of individual and collective capacity to challenge and change root

causes of poverty, homelessness, and injustice.

2013CCHDLOCAL GRANTEES

The mission of Children and Relatives of Illinois Incarcerated Children (CRIIC) is to mobilize and support families of juveniles

who have received a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. Recognizing that many families have neither the support

nor means to find that support, Community and Families of Illinois Incarcerated Children was formed both as a support group and to

work together to abolish Juvenile Life Without Parole. The strategy of the group is to both gather the families together to offer mutual support and to include them in the efforts to change the law of life

without parole.

South Lawndale Neighborhood Discernment Community - Peaceable Gardens Project | $5,000

Community & Relatives of Illinois Incarcerated Children

A talented artist and winner of this year’s CCHD Art Media Contest, Victor Hernandez is from the South Side of Chicago and grew up in a single-parent home. Victor’s passion for creating art has grown over the years and Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation has been a vehicle for fostering the growth of his talents by working alongside other accomplished artists from Chicago. While Victor has had a past of criminal activity, he has sought opportunities and resources to create a better life for himself. His artwork mirrors his desire to transform his community through his art and education.

This painting depicts the mission of CCHD to work on the root causes of poverty and injustice. If we work to root our society in the abiding peace of our Lord, the result is life. Through peace we are grafted to the Prince of Peace who is our vine and root. The ultimate Tree of Life is the Cross of Christ. The Cross is the tree that built the bridge upon which we walk from separation to communion. At the Cross, Jesus transforms the brokenness of the world. While the world seeks power and domination through force and oppression, Jesus showed His power and domination through peace.

The Prince of Peace

TREE OF LIFEas the

ACKNOWLEGMENTS

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Ralph McCloudUnited States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Sean WendlinderUnited States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Father Nicolas Desmond, PastorSaint Aloysius Parish

Saint Aloysius Parish & Staff

Spirit Juice Studios

Hussain AkramGraphic Designer

The Printing Store

Binny’s Beverage Depot

CCHD Allocations Committee

CCHD Interns and Volunteers

All Major CCHD Donors, Benefactors, and Supporters

The Office for Peace and Justice Family and Friends

Our Deepest Gratitude To

... So That From The Rising Of The Sun To Its Setting A Pure Sacrifice May Be Offered To Your Name. – Eucharistic Prayer III, Roman Missal

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Archdiocese of Chicago

Office for Peace & Justice

3525 S Lake Park Ave Chicago, IL 60653

312-534-8390 | www.ChicagoPeaceAndJustice.org