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ANNUAL REPORT 2022 THE CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES COLLECTION

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FROM THE CHAIRMAN

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Are you, like me, saddened by a world that often seems hopelessly divided, where bombs are falling and even some Catholic families can no longer hold respectful discussions about concerns as important as the sanctity of life, immigration and racism? Then I want to assure you that, with your help, The Catholic Relief Services Collection of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is bringing hope, offering vital assistance, and paving the way for reconciliation. As chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on National Collections, I can attest to the lives you have saved and changed through your generosity to this collection. Although it shares its name with the Church’s flagship humanitarian agency in the United States, Catholic Relief Services, it supports four other agencies of the US bishops and one affiliated with our Holy Father, Pope Francis. Your gifts help Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to provide global assistance to victims of war, natural disaster, and dire poverty; Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC) to provide legal assistance with the immigration process; the USCCB Migration and Refugee Services to coordinate refugee resettlement; the USCCB Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development to advocate for human rights and promote Catholic social teaching; and the USCCB Secretar iat for Cultural Diversity in the Church to provide evangelization and ministry among immigrant groups, ethnic minorities, and marginalized cultures in the United States. This collection also supports the Holy Father’s Relief Fund, which allows Pope Francis to respond quickly in the name of Jesus to crises worldwide.

On the following pages you will learn about some of the ways that the $17.2 million given by Catholics like you have brought life, hope, and new unity in 2022. The impacts are as personal as the nun who helped a father in Ohio reunite with his sons from Mexico. They are as compassionate as the parish ioners who accompany Ukrainian refugees as they adapt to life in the United States. They are as crucial as the peace conference you sponsored for South Korean Catholics to discuss paths to reconciliation with North Korea. They are as practical as the new water systems you subsidized in drought-stricken Africa. And they are as promising as the cross-cultural conversations you made possible among young Catholic adults. When you encounter signs that our society is fragmenting, know that your Church is working against such division. Your gifts to The Catholic Relief Services Collection are making that good work possible. When you put the envelope in the parish collection basket for The Catholic Relief Services Collection, or give through your parish’s e-offertory system, you build a better world. For more information see www.usccb.org/catholic-relief . Sincerely yours in Christ,

Most Rev. James S. Wall Bishop of Gallup Chairman, USCCB Committee on National Collections

2022 USCCB COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL COLLECTIONS ** CHAIRMAN Bishop James S. Wall, Diocese of Gallup SUBCOMMITTEE Archbishop Gregory Hartmayer, OFM Conv, Archdiocese of Atlanta Bishop Peter F. Christensen, Diocese of Boise Bishop Octavio Cisneros, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus, Diocese of Brooklyn

2022 USCCB ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE

CHAIR Archbishop José H. Gomez,* Archdiocese of Los Angeles Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio,° Archdiocese of the Military Services, USA

The Administrative Committee is made up of the USCCB officers, elected chairmen of standing USCCB committees, and an elected representative from each episcopal region of the United States. The Administrative Committee operates as the governing body of the USCCB. STAFF Rev. Michael J. K. Fuller Mr. Anthony R. Picarello Jr., Esq. Ms. Theresa Ridderhoff Mr. James L. Rogers †Bishop O’Connell died in February 2023. *Archbishop Gomez served through November 2022. °Archbishop Broglio currently serves as chair. **The Committee on National Collections promotes The Catholic Relief Services Collection. The Administra tive Committee distributes collected funds. Members and staff listed here reflect 2022 membership.

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight, Diocese of Jefferson City Bishop Jeffrey M. Monforton, Diocese of Steubenville †Bishop David G. O’Connell, Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Los Angeles Bishop Peter L. Smith, Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon STAFF Ms. Mary Mencarini Campbell, Executive Director, Office of National Collections

IN A WORLD WHERE VULNERABLE PEOPLE OFTEN FALL BETWEEN THE CRACKS, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops brings hope, help, and healing annually through The Catholic Relief Services Collection. In addition to its namesake agency, Catholic Relief Services—which aids those suffering from war, natural disasters, and severe poverty—this collection supports four other agencies of the US bishops: USCCB Migration and Refugee Services, to assist refugee resettlement; Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., to help immigrants navigate the legal process to citizenship; the USCCB Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development, to provide advocacy and education about Catholic social teaching; and the USCCB Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church, to support evangelization and ministry. The collection also supports the Holy Father’s Relief Fund, through which Pope Francis aids people in crisis worldwide. Below you will find samples of all these works.

WELCOMING UKRAINIAN REFUGEES As Ukrainians flee Russian bombs and arrive in the United States, USCCB Migration and Refugee Services offers immediate friendship and local connections through Welcome Circles. Parishioners and other volunteers who have been vetted, trained, and certified greet refugees at the airport, bring them to their new home, and help them with everything from translation to health care. At the end of 2022, 25 Welcome Circles had recruited more than 200 volunteers and had expanded to serve refugees from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Welcome Circles are an offshoot of Parishes Organized to Welcome Immigrants and Refugees (POWIR), which works with local Catholic Charities offices and other diocesan social services to help parishes become supportive communities to embrace new immigrants. From May 2021 to the end of 2022, nearly 10,000 parish volunteers assisted about 24,000 new immigrants through POWIR.

HEALTHY FOOD & CLEAN WATER IN AFRICA Catholic Relief Services is helping Africans challenged by the environmental impacts of climate change. With CRS support, African communities are growing nutritious food and building water systems that support crops, livestock, and households. In Zambia, volunteers for this program travel among villages to teach parents about good nutrition and hygiene and demonstrate how to establish vegetable gardens that will provide a healthy diet for their children. Gardening is difficult in Kenya due to persistent drought, forcing villagers to walk for hours to carry jugs of water to their dying livestock. In these communities, CRS is overhauling water systems to adapt to climate change and teaching new ways to manage pastures. In two counties of northern Kenya alone, these improved and expanded water systems now reach more than 1.2 million people.

them, they called Church leaders to support diversity, address critical social issues, and encourage them to use their gifts and grow as disciples. Their shared desire was to be involved in the Church in ways that will bring unity and show God’s love to a broken society. HELPING MIGRANTS BECOME CITIZENS In Archbold, Ohio, Franciscan Sr. Andrea Inkrott, who assists immigrants at Project Hope, received help from CLINIC to reunite a family that had been separated by immigration status. The grandfather had become a US citizen, and his son, Alfredo, was a permanent legal US resident. Alfredo wanted to bring his three sons from southern Mexico into the United States. However, the eldest, Alan, was nearly 21—too old to immigrate on the same family petition as his brothers. Attorneys at CLINIC helped Sr. Andrea to formulate a separate petition for Alan based on his grandfather’s status as a US citizen, but it needed to be approved before his rapidly approaching 21st birthday. When Sr. Andrea contacted the consulate in Mexico to ask for an emergency hearing, officials granted it and gave Alan a 45-day extension. Working closely with the CLINIC attorneys, Sr. Andrea helped Alan gather all the necessary paperwork and make the long journey north to the consulate from southern Mexico. His interview went well, and in early June 2022, Alan texted Sr. Andrea to say he was in the United States. “Thanks to God, but also thanks to the CLINIC lawyers,” Sr. Andrea said. “Their guidance was crucial to getting this happy ending. The family was very happy, and I have new knowledge and experience to carry with me to future cases.”

WORKING FOR PEACE Few borders are as tense as the one between North Korea and South Korea. The Catholic Church in South Korea is seeking ways to defuse the danger with help from the USCCB Department for Justice, Peace, and Human Development. Gifts to The Catholic Relief Services Collection supported the Korea Catholic Peace Forum, which met in the fall of 2022 at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. After listening to assessments of conditions in North Korea, and of that nation’s nuclear capability, many speakers and bishops called for new ways to break patterns of hostility and seek reconciliation. The forum was an opportunity for “Catholic churches in Korea, the United States, and Japan to pray together and unite together with a little deeper interest in peace issues on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia,” said Fr. Peter Ju-Seok Kang, director of the Catholic Institute of While the United States has been plagued by increasing polarization and prejudice, young Catholic adults of all ethnicities and cultures have been building mutual understanding and committing to a better future through the Journeying Together initiative, launched by the USCCB Secretariat for Cultural Diversity in the Church. Planning began in 2019, and discussions launched online during the pandemic. It culminated in a national in-person gathering in Chicago in June 2022. Participants came from a vast array of racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as migrant cultures as diverse as circus workers and seafarers. As they spoke and prayed about where the Holy Spirit was leading Northeast Asia Peace in South Korea. BUILDING UNDERSTANDING

THE CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES COLLECTION Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Other Changes in Net Assets for the Year Ending December 31, 2022

REVENUES National Collections Contributions

$17,233,381 $1,620,446

Income on Investments

Total Revenue

$18,853,827

EXPENSES Grants and Donations*

$0

0.00% 71.03% 24.60%

Allocations-Internal Grants**

$820,380 $284,071

Promotions and Fundraising Expenses

Program Costs

$50,474

4.37%

Total Expenses

$1,154,925 $334,545 $820,380

100%

Total Expenses, Excluding Internal Grants

Total Grants & Donations, Including Internal Grants

Changes in Net Assets from Operations Non-Operating Activities: Unrealized Gain on Investments

$17,698,902

($5,511,556) $12,187,346 $13,880,864 $26,068,210

Changes in Net Assets

Net Assets at the Beginning of the Year Net Assets at the End of the Year

THE CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES COLLECTION Total Expenses for the Year Ending December 31, 2022

71.03%

24.60%

4.37%

• Allocations-Internal Grants • Promotions and Fundraising Expenses • Program Costs TOTAL EXPENSES $1,154,925

*As footnoted in the 2021 annual report, the USCCB transitioned to awarding grants based on actual revenue instead of projected revenues. Full implementation covered two years, 2021 and 2022. For the year ended December 31, 2022 the effect of that change is most clearly evident in the Expenses: Grants and Donations line which is zero. Accounting requirements dictate how and where those expenses are recorded and presented; accordingly, they were properly accounted for in 2021 as amounts being owed to (a liability) CRS versus an expense. Conversely, the Revenues: National Collections Contributions were properly recorded in 2022 as $17.2 million. Grant payments resumed in 2023 and are now based on actual revenue.

**Internal grants include distributions from The Catholic Relief Services Collection for USCCB programs for education and outreach on Catholic social teaching, international peace-building efforts, and pastoral ministries to ethnic groups and people on the move.

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For more information about the USCCB’s work with the Catholic Relief Services Collection and around the world, please visit www.usccb.org/catholic-relief .

or write: Office of National Collections 3211 Fourth Street NE | Washington, DC 20017

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