Dear Supporter, 

This past year was marked by dramatic increases in demand across all four of our service areas: Stability, Migration, Pro-Life, and Counseling. Against this backdrop, our team rose to the challenge and provided 55,135 services to 21,458 individuals in need. We could not have done this without your prayers and your financial support.     

Earlier this year, our Leadership Team and Board of Directors kicked off a 3-year strategic planning process to identify our priorities. Our approach was inspired by the words of Pope Benedict XVI in his encyclical, Deus Caritas Est: “The Church is alive with the love enkindled by the Spirit of Christ. This love does not simply offer people material help, but refreshment and care for their souls….​The heart of Jesus sees where love is needed and acts accordingly.”​  

Our new strategic plan “Building Roads to Hope,” is focused on helping those we serve to reach sustainable self-sufficiency. The plan is summarized by these five strategic goals:  

1. Live out our Catholic Identity, using our gifts to be the hands, heart, and feet of Christ, while providing opportunities for others to join us to do the same.  

2. Serve our most vulnerable neighbors, including the homeless, the working poor, our seniors, refugees, and immigrants on their journey to self-sufficiency by providing faith-based life skills classes, effective case management, community integration through warm hand-offs to our partners, and affordable legal pathways to citizenship.  

3. Protect life and support families: Give every person, from conception through natural death, the best chance at a fulfilling life by equipping families with the support needed to flourish, while enhancing our adoption services.  

4. Nourish and heal the heart, mind, and soul by providing compassionate, affordable, accessible, faith-based counseling services.  

5. Build organizational capacity to serve more people through operational efficiencies and volunteer engagement, while diversifying and expanding our funding streams.   

I am grateful for your partnership. With 88% of every gift going directly into services, we will remain steadfast in being good stewards of your charity. I humbly ask for your continued prayers and financial support as we build new roads to hope for our most vulnerable neighbors.   

Yours in Christ,

Dan Florin  |  CEO of Catholic Charities