Does your parish help run a food pantry, operate a thrift store, or sponsor an emergency services program in your community? If so, consider applying for a CRS Rice Bowl Mini-Grant for up to $1,000.
Grant applications will be accepted through the postmark deadline of Oct. 15.
Information about this grant program (including application, guidelines and eligibility criteria) is available at www.ccdoc.org/cchdcrs.
Funded projects must be sponsored by Diocese of Charlotte entities. Grant applications must be reviewed, approved and signed by the parish pastor, office/department head, or school principal. Parishes and Catholic entities in the diocese which received a CRS Rice Bowl Mini-Grant in the most recent Spring 2016 round are not eligible to apply in this special round of grants, but are eligible to apply in next year’s round of grants.
CLEMMONS — The Bishop Greco 9499 Columbiettes of Holy Family Church held a “Poker for Patriots” fundraiser June 4, raising $751 that they then used to buy and set up six nine-foot blue tilt patio umbrellas and stands for the residents of the Hospice House at the Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury, so that the residents and their families could enjoy the fresh air and outdoors.
— Mitch Miller