Catholic Charities and Government Partnership: A Viability Report

This report examines the potential for a government partnership with Catholic Charities, a non-profit organization providing various services, including disaster relief, immigration assistance, and family support. The report delves into the history of Catholic Charities and its current service offerings, highlighting its target population and the proposed program idea of poverty reduction in rural America. It analyzes the target government involvement, including the use of the Supplemental Poverty Measure and potential state and federal government funding. A proposed budget is presented, outlining administrative, personnel, and training costs, along with potential funding sources. The conclusion emphasizes the benefits of such a partnership for reaching underserved populations and effectively implementing poverty alleviation programs. The report concludes that a partnership between Catholic Charities and the government would be a viable solution to assist those in need, particularly in rural areas.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................2
History of Catholic Charities:....................................................................................................2
Present service provided:...........................................................................................................3
Target Population:......................................................................................................................4
Policy/Program Idea:..................................................................................................................4
Target government involvement:...............................................................................................4
Proposed Budget:.......................................................................................................................5
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................6
Reference List:...........................................................................................................................7

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Introduction:
Charities forms the part of live for individuals that are in need of every day basics. A
smallest contribution donation can create a large impact on the life of those people and
community as a whole. Donating to charity provides assistance to our community with the
better place to live by helping the people to that may not else have the access to them. In
context of the current report the discussion undertaken is determining the viability that
whether the Catholic Charities is fit for the government partnership or not. An in depth
analysis relating to the history of the organization and evaluating the present service platform
of the chosen non-profit organization the report will be putting forward the notion of
government partnership in its venture.
History of Catholic Charities:
For close to 75 years Catholic Charities has served the network of providing food,
clothing and shelter to individuals ranging from all the phase of life and religious
background. Catholic Charities also encourages and promotes social justice by serving as the
voice for poor and those that are vulnerable. The Catholic Charities on yearly basis help and
generate hope for more than 82,000 people so that they can create a better life for themselves
and their families. Catholic Charities has been accredited by the Council on Accreditation and
Better Business Bureau and was also the recipient of 2015 BBB Pinnacle Award for the Non-
profits (Shapely, 2016). Catholic Charities works to reduce the poverty in the America and
offers hope to needy people that are in need and unites with others in service. The company
mission is to offer service and to advocate for the justice in social structures by calling the
entire church and other people to do the same.

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Present service provided:
According to the latest figures obtained it is found that more than 800 Catholic
institutes are spread across the world. Evidences from the latest report suggest that there less
number of non-profit organization that are as popular as Catholic Charities of US (Wells &
Caraher, 2014). The Catholic Charities services ranges to large group of people. The details
concerning the list of service provided by Catholic Charities are stated below;
Immigration and Refugee Service:
Catholic Charities for more than 100 years have been providing services to
immigrants and refugees that would help them in overcoming the barriers that helps in
impeding their adjustment to life in US.
a. Catholic Charities helps the refugees in resettling in the US by offering interpreter
services, employment training, job placement and counselling service (Jones, 2017).
b. Providing immigrants and refugees an entire variety of community service disaster
assistance, childcare, older service and accommodation.
Disaster Relief:
Catholic Charities supports the disaster response and recovery effort with the direct
help such as home building, health care service and other forms of program that would enable
a long term disaster recovery (Thane, 2016).
a. Catholic Charities measure the needs of the disaster survivors and then work with
them over a long term period to fulfil their needs.
b. Catholic Charities provides immediate relief during disaster which includes cash
assistance, food, water, personal care supplies and other necessary items.
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Catholic Charities offers services to adults, families, children and communities. The
services include;
a. Offering life-enriching adult education course that included computer literacy,
parenting and strong family relationships (Mastromatteo & Russo, 2017).
b. Providing skill education to prisoners and retuning citizens to reduce the recidivism
and supporting their transition to life outside prison.
Target Population:
The proposed program is directed to serve the distressed people of rural US. Because
of the inadequate availability of amenities to these people places are unable to deal with the
current course of expansion from additional parts of the nation.
Policy/Program Idea:
The current report is based on determining whether it would be viable for the Catholic
Charities to join hands in the latest initiatives of reducing poverty in America. During the
recently concluded year more than 2.6 million Americans have fallen below the poverty line
with the total amount of 46.2 million people living in poverty (Hong, 2014). At the 200% of
the central poverty level, the rate of poverty in US would be 30%. The government is willing
to come under the partnership with the Charitable organization for non-profit organization
since they have wide network reaching the needy people that can help the government in
implementing their poverty alleviation program.
Target government involvement:
The government has come up with the Supplement Poverty Measure to better gauge
into the poverty conditions in America (Boyd et al., 2017). The target government program
computes the poverty threshold differently, by taking into the consideration the real data on
customer expenditure for food and shelter. The supplementary Poverty Measure takes into the

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considerations the impact of all the major federal programs on the rate of poverty. This
represents that the government can exactly obtain the figures how many people are have been
reached through this program and what would have been the rate of poverty if the
government did not implemented program (Jenkins, 2014). Through advocacy and support
network the increased state level public expenditure at the federal government would lend
support to Catholic Charities in this joint venture.
The target government engagement includes;
a. State Government Subsidies
b. Federal Government Expenditure
c. Public Fund Raising
Proposed Budget:
The proposed budget section will be highlighting the probable cost that would be
incurred in potential tie up with the government program. As it can be evidently witnessed
from the table 1 the program would be requiring $42,500 USD for the administrative purpose.
An addition cost on hiring professionals for work will be required. A transportation cost will
be occurred for shifting the personnel from one place to another place across the state and it
is estimated to incur $3,500 on transportation.
Incoming source
Particulars Master
budget Funding Trust
Funds
Other
sources
Fees
&
sales
Sub
total Balance
Amount ($) $ $ $ $ $ $ $
Administration 42,500 12,000 14,000 0 15,500 32,500 6,900
Personnel 75,000 24,500 32,500 14,500 27,550 77,500 4750
Travel 52,000 12,500 22,000 3,500 32,750 3,500 22,500
Training 1,15,000 62,000 65,500 13,750 0 1,11,750 -3,250
TOTAL 2,84,500 1,11,000 1,34,000 31,750 75,800 2,25,250 30,900

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Evidences from the above table provide that a cost of $115,000 on training will be
incurred as the program will be hiring new employees that would sum up the total budget of
$284,500. As depicted by from the table a sum of $111,000 USD will be obtained through
public funding and another $134,500 will be generated through trust. Another revenue
sources such as annual subscription and sales would be obtained through Catholic Charities
membership. This would sum up around $2,25,250 and a sum of $111,000 will be required
from government.
Conclusion:
Ever since the introduction of Catholic Charities it has been performing charitable
activities to reach wide range of people in US. With the help of services such as disaster
relief, immigration and refugee service and senior service has turned out to be popular in
numerous regions. In respect of present context Catholic Charities wants to join the
government program of poverty alleviation program which would be considered as the ideal
decision of Catholic Charities. A wide variety of service by Catholic Charities would help in
reaching the rural areas of US. This proposed budget would help the government in applying
the programme sufficiently.

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Reference List:
Boyd, S. K., Hendricks, J., Lewis, D. W., & Cooper, J. (2017). Google, High School
Programmers, A Team from SCU, and Catholic Charities: Service Learning in Silicon
Valley.
Hong, Y. S. (2014). Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State. Princeton University Press.
Jenkins, B. E. (2014). Developing action strategies to alleviate problems associated with
poverty: A case study of Catholic Charities (Doctoral dissertation, Capella
University).
Jones, K. (2017). Government or charity? Preferences for welfare provision by
ethnicity. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 66, 72-77.
Mastromatteo, G., & Russo, F. F. (2017). Inequality and Charity. World Development, 96,
136-144.
Shapely, P. (2016). Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of Health and
Welfare in Britain, c. 1550–1950. Routledge.
Thane, P. (2016). The foundations of the welfare state. Routledge.
Wells, R., & Caraher, M. (2014). UK print media coverage of the food bank phenomenon:
from food welfare to food charity?. British Food Journal, 116(9), 1426-1445.