Benedictine Students Provide Tax Help Three Benedictine College students are using the knowledge they've gained in class to give back to the Atchison community. As volunteers for Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas' Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, [...]

Program Delivers Care to Pregnant Women The statistics are unsettling. Babies of mothers who do not get proper prenatal care are three times more likely to be born with low birth weights, and five times more [...]

Families Find Peace of Mind, Success With Financial Programs Two years ago Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas and Community America Credit Union Foundation came together with a common goal: to help break the cycle of debt [...]

Snow Ball's Millions Provides Help and Hope The 43rd Annual Snow Ball returned to its Kansas roots and proved "there's no place like home," raising a record­breaking total $2,348,061 for Catholic Charities Foundation of Northeast Kansas! [...]

Cleaning With Purpose Catholic Charities Launches New Social Enterprise On the surface, Aspire Cleaning Service may seem like any other commercial cleaning company. They vacuum, dust, empty the trash. But dig a little deeper and you'll find [...]

The year was 1956. Archbishop Edward J. Hunkeler, Monsignor John Horvat and Thomas Daly met to discuss the establishment of a new organization within the Archdiocese. Its sole focus would be on the management of [...]

Take Action Against Hunger Food Assistance Provided 248K Times to Individuals in northeast Kansas Imagine that you can't afford go to the grocery store when you need a loaf of bread, milk or fresh vegetables. [...]

Kids Summer Food Program Exceeds Expectations 8,098 kids meals served. That's 8,098 times this summer that a child did not have to go hungry because they attended one of the 18 sites that participated in the [...]

Neighbors Helping Neighbors Kids Summer Food Program Sees Increase in Volunteers In 2016, Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas committed to increasing the number of sites for the Kids Summer Food Program. Statistically speaking, more sites meant being able [...]

School's Out - Summer Food Drought It's the time of year when school-aged children everywhere are celebrating the end of school. For most kids it signifies anticipated days of staying up later and sleeping in longer. [...]