To streamline our grant application process, we introduced a new step last year known as a Letter of Intent (LOI) that enables grant seekers the opportunity to share project summaries before submitting a full grant application.

Congratulations to the 28 Dallas-area Catholic churches and schools, plus nonprofit organizations that received $1.18 million in grants from The Catholic Foundation during our virtual spring grant ceremony.

You are invited to a live, virtual discussion on Wednesday, June 3, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. about the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on several Dallas-area non-profits and schools and how their response can spur ideas for new business models, new approaches for interacting with key audiences and new ways of serving the immediate needs of the pandemic era while fulfilling your organization’s core mission. Please register for this free video/audio Catholic Community Network presentation and Q&A session by June 1 to Denise Shaw at dshaw@catholicfoundation.com, or call 972-331-1641. After registering, you’ll receive an email with details about joining the live conversation.

Our donors and staff are rising to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen to our CEO Matt Kramer talk with KRLD business analyst David Johnson on the KRLD, 108-AM CEO Spotlight about the millions of dollars being provided to nonprofits thanks to our generous donors.

Join fellow faithful this Mother’s Day at 11 a.m. on FOX4 as Dallas Bishop Edward Burns and Auxillary Bishop Greg Kelly concelebrate Mass from St. Edward Catholic Church just east of downtown Dallas.

With gratitude to Catholic Foundation donors past and present, our team continues to work safely from home, and our efforts have not been deterred. Many of our donors and Foundation friends have risen to the challenges of the day by helping with various projects including food drives, equipment distribution and prayer sessions via videoconferencing.

We’re very grateful and appreciative for the outstanding support, love, nurturing, guidance and role modeling that Dallas-area Catholic teachers provide our local students.

We’re pleased to continue as the financial broadcast sponsor of each televised Sunday Mass, including those in May and June to be concelebrated by Dallas Bishop Edward Burns and Auxiliary Bishop Greg Kelly on FOX4 at 11 a.m. and replayed at noon on KDFI, Ch 27 or 7, depending upon your video service provider.

Rising to the challenge, a Catholic Foundation employee, Sylvia Windham, and her family participated in a massive food drive with their Canyon Creek Home Owner Association (HOA) in Richardson to feed North Texans. Last weekend, Sylvia, the Bilingual Gift Processing Coordinator, and her neighbors collected 14,000 pounds of food and the CC HOA donated $10,000 in cash for a local non-profit in Richardson called Network of Community Ministries (Network), a spring 2019 recipient of a Catholic Foundation grant.

President and CEO Matt Kramer shares how The Catholic Foundation donors and staff have risen to the challenge of the shelter-in-place era.