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CATHOLIC CHARITIES
CCFW earns top Charity Navigator rating
(Photo supplied by Catholic Charities Fort Worth)
Bishop Michael Olson visits with CCFW supporter Rudy Pulido at the
2014 Creating Hope event. This year’s Creating Hope luncheon is set
for Dec. 2, from noon to 1 p.m. at Will Rogers Memorial Center.
Catholic Charities Fort Worth
(CCFW)’s employees and volunteers
enthusiastically share the
agency’s succinct, high-energy
mission statement: “Faith Driven.
Service Driven. Forward Driven.”
Having embraced the bold
goal of ending poverty in North
Texas, CCFW is gaining national
recognition for the innovative
and effective ways in
which the nonprofit is serving
people in need.
Citing CCFW’s proven
track record of financial health
and a commitment to accountability
and transparency, Charity
Navigator, the country’s leading
independent charity evaluator,
recently awarded CCFW its
highest rating — four stars — for
the fifth year in a row. Only five
percent of the more than 8,000
charities annually evaluated in
the United States have achieved
this level of excellence.
Charity Navigator’s methodology
examines 34 metrics,
including the financial efficiency
of the charity, board composition,
and donor privacy policy.
The charity evaluator’s objective
is to assist donors in identifying
and supporting the country’s
most effective and well-run
charitable organizations.
“To receive the highest possible
rating for five straight years
is a huge honor,” said Nicole
Rush, CCFW’s director of grant
development. “We are thrilled
that Charity Navigator has affirmed
our high standards of operation.
These are the standards
that allow us to push forward
in our work to find solutions to
poverty, one family at a time.”
CCFW, founded in 1910,
provides assistance to those in
need within the 28 counties of
the Catholic Diocese of Fort
Worth, annually serving more
than 122,000 individuals and
families.
According to longtime
supporters like Cindy Thompson,
president of Fort Worth’s
Thompson’s Harveson and Cole
Funeral Home, Catholic Charities
Fort Worth’s “outstanding”
leadership gives donors the opportunity
to participate in a form
of proactive outreach that she
calls “a soul to soul response to
the most basic human needs.”
“[CCFW] runs over 40
programs, each of them effectively
addressing needs such as
hunger, domestic violence, child
abuse, and immigration,” said
Thompson. “It’s easy to make
the decision to support them,
because I know that 93 percent
or more of every donation is used
to provide direct services, rather
than pay administrative costs.
They are doing truly outstanding
work in our community.”
PAGE 11 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2015