Our Nonprofits

Inclusion has become a buzzword among disability rights advocates. But what does it mean? We can install all the wheelchair ramps we want, but until we truly embrace the idea of diversity to include different abilities, nothing will change. Until we approach people with disabilities with curiosity instead of fear, they will continue to be marginalized.

Teams of volunteers travel every year to Juarez, Mexico to help local families build homes. Volunteers, many of whom are college students on spring break, raise money for building supplies and to offset travel expenses.

Catholic Charities USA's mission is to provide service for people in need, to advocate for justice in social structures, and to call the entire Church and other people of good will to do the same.

As the needs of society have grown more complex, how we serve the least of our brethren has turned political. But for 100 years, Catholic Charities of Los Angeles has worked to serve the vulnerable and poor.

Aden Batar is a Muslim from Somalia who has become an American citizen after being granted asylum in the United States. Now, he works as the Immigration and Refugee Resettlement Director at Catholic Community Services of Utah in Salt Lake City.

According to childhood trauma experts, for every soldier returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress or depression, 10 children in the U.S. are traumatized by family violence, sexual abuse and/or neglect. In response to this epidemic, the Center for Child Protection in Austin, Texas, was created in 1989.

Remember poverty in America? It was once a great social issue. It hasn’t gone away, but no one seems to care anymore...except in New York City.

Public Education in America is going through a period of great introspection. Everything from standardized testing to the length of the school day is up for debate.

The central theme of the episode is that true social change occurs when dedicated people make long term commitments to a cause by investing knowledge and hope in a new generation.

Sixty years ago, while covering the Spanish Civil War, the English journalist, John Langdon-Davies saw many parentless children wandering the streets of Spain. Moved to action, he created the Foster Parents Plan to sponsor, financially and personally, orphans of war.