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Three Rutherford County nonprofits recently received grants from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) through the Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte. Checks to each organization were presented at a grant awards luncheon in Hickory last week with representatives from each group in attendance. Local grant recipients are Habitat for Humanity of Rutherford County, Rutherford Housing Partnership (RHP) and Yokefellow Service Center.
The Habitat grant will provide funding for Hammerin' for Heroes Sept. 9, a Habitat work day devoted to providing housing repairs for veterans.
Funds provided to RHP will buy materials for a work week July 22-29 when Mission Serve will bring another 140 youth volunteers and their leaders to Rutherford County to provide urgently needed housing repairs.
Yokefellow will use its grant for "Citizens with Disabilities" to assist those having filed through appropriate government channels for disability assistance or for those who have been determined disabled and receive a check that is within the Yokefellow low-income guidelines for assistance. "Most individuals must be unemployed due to their disability for a period of one year before they can file," said Cherry Smith, Yokefellow Executive Director, "then there can be a long waiting period for processing. We see so much of this, which prompted this particular grant request."
The CCHD was initiated in 1970 and is a domestic anti-poverty program of the Catholic Church. It is one of the nation's largest funding organizations for self-help community-based programs. Making presentations at the program were Dr. Gerard A. Carter, Executive Director of Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte; Ralph McCloud, National CCHD Director; and Joe Purello, Director of the Office of Social Concerns and Advocacy and the CCHD Diocesan Director, who presented the checks to each group.
A total of 14 programs throughout the Diocese received grants.
