2022 Grants

2022 Total of Grants issued: $148,320.77.

Listed below are the 2022 Grant Recipients:

 

All Saints Catholic School - Spokane: Religious Curriculum K-6 

• The Religious Curriculum of All Saints will be enriched by using materials to increase the use of scripture and adding visual reminders of the school's mission - to live the Gospel. The materials include rosary kits, Bibles and posters of the Saints, as each classroom has its own designated Saint.

Assumption Catholic School - Spokane: Assumption NEXT Campaign

• The STEM Center is the first step in a 3 Phase strategic plan to improve the Catholic education Assumption provides to school families. Underutilized classroom space will be transformed into an amazing STEM lab to inspire K-8 students.

Cathedral Of Our Lady Of Lourdes: Pray & Invite

• The Cathedral Parish Pastoral Council is hoping to dedicate a full year to vocation promotion. Through prayer and encouraging our young people, OLL hopes to strengthen a culture of vocations in the parish, which has the potential to produce several vocations to the priesthood and consecrated religious life.

Catholic Engaged Retreat Program: Marriage Prep

• Catholic Engaged Encounter is the only marriage prep retreat program offered by the Catholic Church in Spokane and we serve those throughout the Inland Northwest, including Canada.

Cheney Outreach Center: Client Assistance Program

• Cheney Outreach assists in a variety of areas - from medical prescriptions through Christmas gifts. The programs improve quality of life and reduce the risk of isolation, deprivation and stress.

Chesterton - Notre Dame Academy: Lab Tables

• Chesterton Academy offers 4 lab classes over the course of 4 years. With eight new lab tables providing a flat, durable work surface, the science classes will be able to execute the curriculum as designed and offer students a more meaningful lab experience.

Chewelah Faith Resources Group: TASTY Summer Program

• Filling the gap from when the schools stop providing meals to students until school resumes in September. The goal is to maintain the amount and variety of good food provided while increasing the number of children we are able to provide for.

Christ Kitchen: Christ Kitchen

• A job training project providing work, instruction, discipleship, support and fellowship is a place of hope for women in poverty. Women become employable and become able to support themselves and their families without reliance on government programs or destructive relationships.

Cor Christi: Cor Christi Pre Seminary

• In 2016 guidelines issued by the Congregation for the Clergy, a new phase was added to seminary formation. Cor Christi Pre-Seminary is Spokane's response. Cor Christi will be a place where young men will develop healthy fraternity, solid spirituality, strong catechesis, and formation in chastity, while developing a dynamic of self-giving through apostolic service.

Cursillo Movement: Hispanic Religious Education Leadership

• The Cursillo Movement addresses the need of ongoing religious education, evangelization and leadership formation for Hispanic Catholics, helping them to have a personal encounter with Jesus and the Church.

EWU Catholic Newman Center: Yearly Retreats

• The primary responsibility is to assist and support the students spiritually on their journey of faith. The retreats offer students time to be with the Lord in an environment conducive to growing in their faith.

Guardian Angel School - Colton: Bibles for Children

• Guardian Angel / St. Boniface School wants to put a Bible in each student's hands. This will assist the children in feeling like they are part of Mass and the Catholic family.

Holy Family Catholic Parish: Community Garden Project

• The community garden consists of ten raised bed boxes and cultivated areas for growing specific vegetables, as well as crop and fruit plants. The vegetables grown will be donated to various social service agencies like local foodbanks.

Holy Family Catholic Parish: Vacation Bible School

• Held in July, the Vacation Bible School for Holy Family will serve 100-125 children, using the Jerusalem Marketplace program. There will be no charge for any child K-6 to attend, and they will receive a t-shirt and a music CD to continue their celebration at home.

Holy Family School - Clarkston: Theology of the Body

• Holy Family School will be using Theology of the Body curriculum for students grades 6-8. They will be purchasing two sets of teacher materials and 45 sets for student workbooks.

Immaculate Heart Retreat Center: SEARCH Retreat for High School Students

• Search retreats (the Search for Christian Maturity) addresses the spiritual needs and faith development of high school students in our diocese. The goals for Search include self-discovery, deepening of one's relationship with God, and creating lasting change for a minimum of 490 students.

Natural Family Planning Program: Natural Family Planning

• Married and engaged couples learn how to recognize and monitor the natural physical signs placed by God within each woman's reproductive system. Since 1975, this class has been offered through SHMC.

Okanogan Valley Parishes: Catechism of the Good Shepherd

• The church teaches us that parents are the primary teachers of their children. The goal of the program is to train and teach parents and catechists in Okanogan Valley Parishes the model of the Catechesis of the Good Shephard so they may in turn teach the many children who are a blessed part of the parishes.

Pend Oreille County Parishes: Catholic Youth Outreach

• Pend Oreille County is in great need of a spiritual renewal. Through the Outreach program, youth will be invited to three events to meet other like-minded Catholics in the county. These events will help show them that Jesus Christ provides a path that leads out of violence and poverty and into true joy and peace.

Pend Oreille County Parishes: Mass for the Dead

• Many Pend Orielle County parishoners have experienced the loss of a child, sibling, or spouse. At the Mass, we will pray for the souls of these loved ones, and then join together for a simple catered meal.

Pend Oreille County Parishes: Young Adults Group

• St. Anthony's is forming a Catholic Youth roup for the five Pend Orielle County Parishes. A Young Adults ministry will not only improve individual lives but also help the parishes in the county to grow by fostering virtuous family values.

Project Timothy: Project Timothy

• Project Timothy serves adults and children in the community by helping with basic and emergency needs. Food Vouchers are the main form of assistance.

Sacred Heart Parish - Brewster: Religious Education Program

• Sacred Heart in Brewster will receive supplies for the classrooms and for Family Night, and workbooks for families who need financial assistance. They use bilingual curriculum materials and seek Spanish speakers as volunteers.

Secular Franciscans: Holiday Meal Outreach

• The Secular Franciscans provide celebrational meals to families during Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

St. Vincent de Paul @ Mary Queen Parish: Community Assistance

• Substantial community assistance is applied to housing, utilities and food. Along with the monetary aid, they provide meaningful company and engagement.

St Aloysius School - Spokane: Chrome Books 1 Classroom

• The K-8 teachers at St. Aloysius consistently implement the use of educational technology into their daily lessons. Up-to-date Chromebooks will assist in the overall delivery of the school's mission.

St Charles School - Spokane: CGS Atrium

• St. Charles has embarked on a journey of transition to a Classical Catholic Model; one step on the path is starting the Catechism of the Good Shepherd - which will be held in a space called an Atrium. Along with converting a classroom into the Atrium, St. Charles will purchase beautiful religious artwork, child-size items for practicing parts of the mass, and items to use for basic skills like water pouring, writing and coloring, and cleaning.

St John Vianney School - Spokane: SJV Student Bible Project

• We will help students encounter Christ through regular reading of Sacred Scripture. The SJV Bible Project seeks to give each student their own Catholic Bible.

St Joseph Parish - Spokane (Dean): Religious Education Youth & Adult

• The Religious Education programs at St. Joseph on Dean include the Catechism of the Good Shepherd, RCIA for matrimony, and adult Catholic 101 classes. Also, a new youth group is being started.

St Patrick Parish - Colfax: Religious Education Program

• St Patrick's in Colfax strives to serve K-12 families, and serve high schoolers so they understand and love their Catholic Faith, and continue to live out that faith in future years.

St Patrick School - Pasco: Retrofit Middle School Bathroom

• The building is used not only for the middle school students, but for Religious Education, Adult & Youth Ministry groups, and community events. The goal is to bring the facilities and the plumbing up to date, so everyone can be comfortable.

St Thomas More Newman Center - Pullman: St Paul Outreach Training

• The St. Thomas More Catholic Student Center at WSU is situated right in the heart of Greek Row, and evangelization of the these students is our top priority. To this end, we want to send 12 student leaders to Saint Paul Outreach Training - a 5 week program focusing on leadership development.

St Vincent de Paul - Connell: Guadalupanas Winter Retreat

• Winter is the time Hispanic women stay home from field work and try to catch up. The overall intent of the retreat is to evangelize but we also hope it will provide an avenue to feed a young mom's desire of reconnecting with service and participation in the growth of the parish.

Tri Cities Prep: Mission & Education Committee

• The goal of the Mission & Education Committee is to continually address our Catholic identity. We will be enriching the community by adding religious artwork and crucifixes in the classroom, and will be serving the faculties' spiritual needs with the #1 Catholic App for prayer, Hallow.

Trinity Catholic School - Spokane: Trinity After School Program

• Trinity Catholic School focuses on the middle school population which still benefits greatly from supervision after school. The program offers academic assistance as well as planned physical activities, a healthy snack, and positive social interaction.

Trinity Catholic School - Spokane: Catechism of the Good Shepherd 

• Serving the religious needs of youth and adults, from a new youth group to marriage preparation. We are continuing the Cathechism of the Good Shepard, adult Catholic 101 classes, and getting new books for Sacramental Preperations.