Catholic Charities News

January 25, 2018 Portland, ME –Catholic Charities Maine has named Rachel Grivois, CPA as its new Board Chair in 2018 for a two-year term. Grivois has served on the Board since 2013, most recently as treasurer.  A Certified Public… Read more >

January 17, 2018 Caribou, ME – Catholic Charities Maine’s Food Bank was honored to be chosen by the Maine State Court of the Catholic Order of Foresters to receive $1,000 in funding from the home office’s Welfare & Relief Fund… Read more >

January 11, 2018 Portland, ME -- Catholic Charities Maine has achieved national re-accreditation through the New York-based Council on Accreditation (COA) an independent, not-for-profit accreditor of the full continuum of community-based… Read more >

October 24, 2017 Biddeford, ME – Long-time Kennebunk resident and local artist, Mary Burnett was recognized Monday, October 23 with a garden dedicated in her honor at St. Louis Child Development Center in Biddeford. Presiding over the… Read more >

July 27, 2017 Portland, ME – Catching the bus, personal safety instruction and meal preparation are not the typical experiences for high schoolers attending camp, but for 10 teenagers with visual impairments from all across Maine… Read more >

July 27, 2017 Portland, ME – Catholic Charities Maine Child & Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) announces its participation in the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program.  Meals are available at no separate charge to all enrolled… Read more >

July 27, 2017 Portland, ME – St. Louis and St. Elizabeth’s Child Development Centers, programs of Catholic Charities Maine, announce their participation in the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program. Meals are available at no… Read more >

June 20, 2017 “In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being,” Aysha Taryam.   True to these words, millions of people across the globe are being rendered refugees and displaced… Read more >

May 30, 2017 Caribou, ME – Catholic Charities Maine’s Food Bank in Aroostook County received a $10,000 donation from Pineland Farms and Bob Evans Food, Inc. on Thursday, May 25th to help combat hunger insecurity in Maine’s… Read more >

April 25, 2017 Augusta, ME – Julie Abbot was recognized as Volunteer of the Year at the Governor’s Awards for Service and Volunteerism on Monday, April 24th at the State House in Augusta. A resident of Gorham, Abbott has volunteered… Read more >