Catholic Campaign for Human Development

CCHD was begun in 1969 as the National Catholic Crusade Against Poverty by the Catholic bishops in the United States, in part as a response to Pope Paul VI's encyclical Populorum progressio ("The Progress of Peoples"). CCHD's mission is "to address the root causes of poverty in America through promotion and support of community-controlled self-help organizations and through transformative social justice, education, and solidarity between poor and non-poor".{{cite web|url=http://www.usccb.org/cchd/annualreports.shtml|title=CCHD Annual Report 2007|year=2007|publisher=CCHD}}

The Campaign had its origins in the 1960s with Chicago priest (and later Bishop) Michael Dempsey while serving as pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish on the West Side.{{cite web |last1=McClory |first1=Robert J. |title=The fight over fighting poverty: CCHD and the push for reform |url=https://uscatholic.org/articles/201208/the-fight-over-fighting-poverty-cchd-and-the-push-for-reform/ |publisher=U.S. Catholic |access-date=26 February 2021}} He served as the organization's first leader after his appointment as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese.{{cite web |title=175th anniversary: National ministries with roots in the archdiocese |url=https://www.chicagocatholic.com/chicagoland/-/article/2018/11/08/made-in-chicago-national-ministries-with-roots-in-the-archdiocese |website=Chicago Catholic |publisher=Archdiocese of Chicago |access-date=26 February 2021}} Future cardinal Joseph Bernardin also played a major role in its founding.

CCHD is supported by an annual collection in U.S. Catholic parishes, and individual donations. Allegations that some CCHD-funded organizations were promoting abortion, contraception and radical politics, and that the CCHD was a force of internal corruption within the USCCB{{cite news|url=http://www.crisismagazine.com/2011/the-catholic-campaign-for-human-development-reform-or-bust|title=The Catholic Campaign for Human Development: Reform or Bust|first=Rey|last=Flores|newspaper=Crisis Magazine|accessdate=7 March 2017|date=9 November 2011}} were addressed in 2010 with the Review and Renewal of CCHD,{{cite web|publisher=United States Conference of Catholic Bishops|url=http://www.usccb.org/about/catholic-campaign-for-human-development/Who-We-Are/review-and-renewal.cfm|title=Review and Renewal of CCHD|accessdate=7 March 2017|date=15 September 2010}} which affirmed the core mission of CCHD and instituted controls to ensure that all CCHD-funded initiatives are consistent with Catholic mission and identity.{{cn|date=March 2017}}

CCHD had revenues of $18.1 million for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.usccb.org/about/catholic-campaign-for-human-development/collection/index.cfm|title=CCHD Annual Collection|publisher=CCHD}}

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• [http://www.usccb.org/cchd Catholic Campaign for Human Development website]

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