Does your parish help run a food pantry or have an emergency services program? Perhaps your parish or ministry provides food assistance for children during summer months, offers meals for those who are homeless, or sponsors a community garden that provides fresh produce to those in need.
If so, consider applying for a Catholic Charities CRS Rice Bowl Mini-Grant for up to $1,000 in grant funds.
Catholic Charities is now accepting applications for CRS Rice Bowl Mini-Grants. For every $3 of CRS Rice Bowl funds sent to CRS for overseas projects, $1 remains in the Diocese of Charlotte to help fund a local grant program that supports poverty and hunger fighting projects of diocesan Catholic entities.
Projects must target hunger and poverty in communities in the Diocese of Charlotte.
Only one grant can be submitted per Catholic entity and grant applications must be reviewed and signed by the pastor of the parish, principal of the school, or director of the diocesan office applying for the grant.
Completed and signed applications are due, in scanned PDF, by the email deadline of Monday, Oct. 17.
Applications, including guidelines and eligibility criteria, are available at www.ccdoc.org/cchdcrs.
— Joseph Purello