The 2018-2020 Strategic Goals include: Goal 1: Strengthen role as region’s innovative leader in addressing poverty. Goal 2: Enhance position as community’s recognized leader in long-term disaster recovery case management. Goal 3: Communicate a clear brand identity and raise our profile in the region. Goal 4: Balance risks and opportunities to achieve improved financial stability. Goal 5: Align services with current/anticipated community needs, financial vision and Catholic social teachings. Goal 6: Increase excellence in operations.

As people of faith helping people in need achieve self-sufficiency and live with dignity, we will: - Employ best-practice methods of helping poor and vulnerable individuals and families gain self-sufficiency and explore ways to reduce poverty across the community. - Positively influence disaster-recovery service delivery systems. - Leverage current assets to provide maximum financial benefit. - Address the opportunities and risks of government funding. - Review environment, trends and best practices to ensure current programs are excellent, meet mission/community needs, align with Catholic social teachings and are funded adequately. - Explore/assess potential new programs, regional expansions and program spin-offs in light of mission, community needs, potential funding resources and Catholic social teachings. - Demonstrate measurable accountability across the organization and to board.

We are funded by a variety of revenue sources, the majority of which represent state and federal grants and contracts. Foundation and United Way grants make up the second-largest source of revenue, followed by individual and in-kind donations. We are grateful for the on-going support from the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.

Catholic Charities’ vision statement, “People of faith helping people in need achieve self-sufficiency and live with dignity,” is our north star. Catholic social teachings guide the structure of our strategy and programming. We continually seek to provide the most effective reporting system that informs our board about progress toward strategic goals.

Catholic Charities is taking steps to create a more robust network of support for our clients through more integrated case management that spans our broad array of social services programs. In addition, we put a system in place to provide long-term disaster recovery services to help individuals and families who experienced loss from natural disaster, most recently from Hurricane Harvey.