Projects and Charities

 

Nevada State Projects

Seminarian Fund: 

The Nevada State Court Seminarian Fund helps to fund the continuing education of future priests. The fund is equally divided between the Diocese of Reno and the Diocese of Las Vegas.

The Nevada State Scholarship Program:

Each year, the State of Nevada awards a scholarship to a Catholic girl entering high school. Two scholarships are given, one to a girl entering Bishop Manogue High School in Reno and one to a girl entering Bishop Gorman High School or Cristo Rey St. Viator College Preparatory in Las Vegas.

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Nevada State Approved Charities

Candlelighters: The Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Nevada seeks to provide emotional support, quality of life programs, and financial assistance for children and their families affected by childhood cancer.

Poverello House: The Poverello House of Las Vegas is a daytime homeless shelter for men and women that provides the opportunity for breakfast, lunch, laundry and showers, as well as clothing.

Living Grace Home: The Living Grace Home in Las Vegas provides food, shelter, and education to expectant, unwed women and is a safe haven to young, pregnant women who need a helping hand.

Women’s Resource Center: The Women’s Resource Medical Centers of Southern Nevada exist to save the lives of unborn children by sharing the love of Jesus Christ through spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational support of women.

Ronald McDonald House: The Ronald McDonald House Las Vegas seeks to provide temporary housing for families traveling to Las Vegas for medical care.

Title 1 Project Hope: Title 1 Project Hope is a program for homeless teens to help remove barriers to enrolling in school and educate school parents, personnel, and unaccompanied youths of the educational options provided under the McKinney-Vento Federal Law.

Sunrise Children’s Foundation: The Sunrise Children’s Foundation helps provide pediatric care and education for children, focusing on child development from birth to 5 years of age.

Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada: The Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada provide a variety of services to people of all ages in Southern Nevada to provide shelter, food, and care to those most in need.

St. Benedict Labre Homeless Ministry: The St. Benedict Labre Homeless Ministry provides food and aide to the homeless in the Las Vegas valley.

National Projects

Habitat for Humanity
The Catholic Daughters in partnership with Habitat for Humanity work to build simple, decent, affordable homes for economically disadvantaged people so they can have a better environment in which to raise their families. We provide the finances for the house and also help to build these homes. We, as Catholic Daughters, may leave the site of the build bumped, bruised, and tired but it is very rewarding for all involved. CDA was one of the first women’s organizations to complete a house in Habitat’s seven day “Blitz Build”.

Beginning in 1995 in Oklahoma City, the Catholic Daughters have built homes in Albany, NY; Riverside, CA; Baton Rouge, LA; Lakewood, NJ; Dilworth, MN; Port Jervis, NY; Corpus Christi, TX; Weston WV; Brockton, MA; Williamsburg, VA; Owatonna, MN; Wichita Falls, TX and Lake Charles, LA. A donation was also made to the Diocese of Gunther in Indonesia in 2005 after the devastating tsunami. Our latest venture was to help build 20 homes in the 40 days of Lent, 2008 in Mexico, four of which were paid for by Catholic Daughters. We have also built 4 homes in Haiti summer of 2010 and homes in Marana, AZ; Eagle Lake, TX; Pasco, WA; New Orleans, LA; Porterville, CA and the latest in Corpus Christi, TX in 2016.

Holy Cross Family Rosary
“The family that prays together stays together” is the motto of the Holy Cross Family Ministries. Faithful to Mary, the Mother of God, The Family Rosary encourages family prayer, especially the Rosary. Founded by Servant of God, Father Patrick Peyton, CSC, Family Rosary seeks not only to fulfill the need to share the message of prayer with those who are unfamiliar with the Rosary but also to strengthen the prayer life of the devout. Since Catholic Daughters has the Blessed Mother as our Patroness and we have a strong devotion to her, we have supported this worthy cause since 1977.

The Laboure Society
The Laboure Society encourages vocations to religious communities. They have financially helped aspirants who wish to enter a religious community. Sixty-five percent of their clients have been women who are unable to enter religious formation programs because of a financial impediment. Donations from CDA will help to make their vocation become a reality. St. Catherine Laboure is the patroness of this society.

National Center on Sexual Exploitation
In 1962 Morality in Media was established in New York City to combat pornography. In 2015, the name Morality in Media was changed to National Center on Sexual Exploitation. They promote the WRAP Campaign. The White Ribbon Against Pornography takes place at the end of October. A NCOSE newsletter is sent out with each National Quarterly.

SOAR! (Support Our Aging Religious)
SOAR! was founded in 1986 with $25,000 seed money received from Catholic Daughters. Augmenting the efforts of the institutional Church, SOAR! is a non-profit organization of persons who are committed to assuring financially stable and personally secure futures for elderly and frail members of Catholic religious congregations.

National Charities

In addition to 5 major National Projects there are ten National Charities endorsed and supported by the Catholic Daughters of the Americas. Local courts are able to choose from the following charities: The North American College Smile Train Catholic Relief Services Apostleship of the Seas Covenant House Mother Theresa Tutwiler Clinic The Disaster Relief Catholic Extension Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception The North American College Formation of men for the Priesthood of Jesus Christ at the Pontifical North American College is characterized by the four pillars of priestly formation as described in human, spiritual, intellectual, and academic development. There are about 160 seminarians, as well as numerous faculty members and graduate students, from across the United States, Canada and Australia who devote ­themselves to personal formation for priestly ministry under the attentive guidance, supervision and evaluation of a formation faculty of priests and religious. Smile Train The Smile Train is an international charity dedicated to helping the millions of children in the world who suffer from cleft lip and palate through free surgery for children, free training for doctors, and research to find a cure. This life-changing surgery is truly a modern day miracle. It gives these children a new smile and a second chance in life. 100 % of the donations goes for the program and 0% to overhead. The average cost per surgery is presently $250 and takes about 45 minutes. Catholic Relief Services In 1943 this international project was started to provide assistance to the people in the poorest parts of the world. They reach out to more than 100 countries with support such as food, medical supplies and religious assistance. Apostleship of the Sea In 1920 Port Ministry was conceived. Its goal is to provide spiritual, physical, and psychological services to seamen at port locations in the United States. They are always happy to receive toilet articles to place on board ships in ports at Christmas time. Covenant House Covenant House was founded 38 years ago with the mission to help homeless kids. Today, Covenant House is the largest privately-funded agency in the Americas providing food, shelter, immediate crisis care, and essential services to homeless, throwaway, and runaway kids. Mother Teresa On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, “The Missionaries of Charity”, whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI. Tutwiler Clinic The Tutwiler Clinic operates under the direction of Sister-Doctor Anne Brooks. It serves the poorest of the poor in the Bayou country. It runs totally through donations allowing medical help to those who do not have the ability to seek or pay for services. The Tutwiler Clinic is always happy to receive medical supplies/samples and over the counter medicines as well as clothes. Quilting and sewing supplies are always welcome. They sell quilting items in an attempt to become self-sufficient. The Disaster Relief The Catholic Daughters maintain a Disaster Fund to which our members contribute. At the request of the State Regent where a disaster occurs, monetary assistance is forwarded to the Bishop of that diocese for distribution. Recently donations were made to Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas due to hurricanes. Relief was sent to Mexico, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio and Texas experiencing major flooding. Dioceses received funds in Arkansas following tornadoes and West Virginia during a mine disaster. Catholic Extension Catholic Extension was founded in 1905, to help Catholics in remote areas lacking church buildings and resources. Their vision is to raise money to help bring the Catholic Church to these isolated communities. Today Catholic Extension serves 87 “mission dioceses”, funds approximately 2000 projects annually throughout the United States and its territories. Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Helping maintain our beautiful Basilica in Washington DC