by CCFW | Mar 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
What is Financial Resiliency? Financial Resiliency is the ability to absorb financial shocks and crises. Assets like robust emergency savings accounts, healthy credit scores and low debt-to-income ratios all make up a family’s financial resiliency toolkit....
by CCFW | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Guest post by Jim Wilkes, President of Texland Petroleum LP The year starts off as poverty awareness month, and I like to begin my year budgeting my annual grant recommendations from our donor advised fund at the North Texas Community Foundation. It is the best time...
by CCFW | Jan 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Welcome to Poverty Awareness Month. It’s a new year and we are starting with a theme that makes up the core of our agency’s purpose: The daunting, complex issue of poverty. The root causes often go back generations –mired in systemic...
by CCFW | Oct 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Por qué creamos Padua Hay 100+ programas federales anti-pobreza en los Estados Unidos – silos por necesidad (vivienda, comida, etc.) y que consisten en complicados/confusos requisitos y papeleo. Para una familia que intenta salir de la pobreza, esto puede ser...
by CCFW | Oct 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
What’s Happening Since the 1970s, we have been resettling refugees in coordination with the federal government and supporting them in their journey to live the American dream. We do this because of our Gospel call to welcome the stranger (Matthew 25) and...
by CCFW | Sep 1, 2020 | Research, Uncategorized
It’s no secret that societal injustice disproportionately impacts marginalized communities, perpetuating disparities and sustaining imbalances of power. But perhaps lesser-known is that the world of data is no exception. Systems of information collection are designed...
