Report to the Community FISCAL YEAR 2018 8 Organizations. 1 Cause. A Stronger Community. In response to the teachings of Jesus Christ, our mission is to serve people in need, especially those who are poor and vulnerable; work to improve social conditions for all people in the community; and to call members of the Church and community to do the same. Cardinal Ritter Senior Services | Good Shepherd Children & Family Services | Marygrove | Queen of Peace Center Saint Louis Counseling | Saint Martha’s Hall | St. Francis Community Services | St. Patrick Center 2 www.ccstl.org n
[email protected] n 314.367.5500 Letters from our Leadership A message from Theresa E. Ruzicka, CPA President, Catholic Charities of St. Louis Dear Friends: Since 1912, the Catholic Charities of St. Louis by defining the reason we exist – our core As a donor, you help make it possible for us mission has called people to be the loving purpose – which is, quite simply, to share God’s to maintain, grow, and develop programs that eyes, ears, and hands of Christ. Because our love by helping others. We also identified bring real change to people struggling with employees, volunteers, and supporters respond federation values, like a Passion for Mission to poverty, abuse, neglect, homelessness, physical daily to this call to love, last year more than Serve and Fostering Human Dignity. and mental health challenges, and more. 110,000 people in need benefitted from Catholic Together, in Christ’s name, we are helping build Charities of St. Louis Federation services. a stronger community. A new opportunity to put our purpose and values into action took root this year In addition to providing a loving, human as we entered into a partnership with the With sincere gratitude, touch, we strive to follow best practices and Archdiocese of St.