Charity Guild awards $819,500 to Houston-area charities

Grant money is funded from proceeds from its volunteer-run Charity Guild Shop in Montrose and is given to organizations that provide food, safe housing, affordable health care, clothing, educational support, mental health assistance and supportive recreation or enrichment services that benefit children. The partnership of volunteers, consignors, customers and community makes this major contribution possible. 

Chairperson Cathy McDonnell led the children’s charities committee in reviewing more than 90 grant request applications.  

Some of this year’s included 19 Houston area Catholic schools with grants totaling $245,00, plus a donation of $7,500 to the Cardinal’s Circle, a group that supports students in Catholic schools in under-served communities with limited resources. 

Adrienne Rodriguez, principal of Holy Rosary Catholic School in Rosenberg, stated, “We are immensely grateful to the Charity Guild of Catholic Women for awarding Holy Rosary a grant. These funds will directly support learning by allowing us to purchase 10 Chromebooks for the elementary students to use for small group instruction, intervention and enrichment through online learning tools targeted to individual student needs.”

Rodriguez said the school will also purchase STEM materials for the middle school.

“The teachers and students are excited for these new opportunities that would not be possible without the support of the Charity Guild of Catholic Women,” she said.

In addition, other grant recipients also included Be an Angel Fund Inc., Palmer Drug Abuse Program-Houston, BEAR - Be a Resource for CPS Kids, Nora’s Home, Children’s Transplant Initiative and Covenant House-Houston, among others. 

The Charity Guild of Catholic Women has donated more than $9.5 million to over 200 nonprofit organizations serving Houston children since 1996. For more information, visit charityguildshop.org. †