Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

The 2018-2021 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 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.