The Legacy Society honors donors who have generously named a Catholic organization, program, or ministry throughout the Church of Philadelphia in their estate plans.

Community Impact Awards

CFGP’s Community Impact Awards identify charitable organizations in the Greater Philadelphia area that require immediate financial assistance. Community Impact Awards are chosen by CFGP staff members and do not have a formal application or granting process.

A man hiking down a long road in the mountains

St. Joseph’s Preparatory School

Summer immersion trip

Two chairs and a small table set up in the forest

Medical Mission Sisters

General operating support

A food pantry filled with food

Cabrini University

Support for the college’s on-site food pantry, Cabrini Cupboard

Painting of a fish

Aquinas Center

Development of an immigrant and refugee speaker’s bureau

Man looking through racks of clothes

St. John’s Hospice

Assistance for their emergency shelter and day services program

Two hands being help up to the sun

Dawn’s Place

General operating support for the organization’s mission, which provides housing and trauma recovery services for women trapped by, or at risk for, Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Small children learning around a table

Our Lady of Confidence Day School

Support for their educational programming for special needs students

Mother of Mercy House.

Mother of Mercy House

General operating support for their food pantry and spiritual services

Teacher and student looking at a projector during class

St. Katherine Day School

General operating support towards educational programming for children and young adults with developmental or cognitive disabilities

SSJ Welcome Center

Sisters of St. Joseph Welcome Center

ESL and citizenship courses

De La Salle Vocational Classroom

De La Salle Vocational

TV screen for on-site Career Center

Two women cutting bread

St. Agatha/St. James Soup Kitchen

General operating support for the parish’s on-site soup kitchen

Operating Base Cecilia

Operating Base Cecilia

General operating support for their work with homeless veterans who are receiving counseling and employment assistance

Augustinian Volunteers

Augustinian Volunteers

Mission trip funding

Purple flowers on a bush

Sisters of St. Joseph Earth Center

Support for their ‘Step Away for a Day’ program

Men sitting at a computer desk

Depaul House

General operating support to further their mission of transitioning homeless men into permanent housing

Sacred Heart Home Interior

Sacred Heart Home

General operating support to assist in their work with terminally ill cancer patients

St. Ignatius Nursing and Rehab entrance outside

St. Ignatius Nursing and Rehab Center

General operating support

Child practicing her writing at a desk

St. Lucy Day School for Children with Visual Impairments/Archbishop Ryan Academy for the Deaf

Support for a new Braille reader

Three girls outside the school

Gesu School

School Uniforms

Chester Family Center

Chester City Family Strengthening Center

On-site private shower installation for homeless individuals to use

Don Guanella

Don Guanella Village

Household items and toiletries

A doctors bed and stool

Augustinian Defenders of the Rights of the Poor (ADROP)

Unity Clinic

Small children in school smiling in a row

CORA Services

Support CORA’s Early Years program for Pre-K children

Two women working at Red Hill Farm

Red Hill Farm

Education field trip for local students

Four children from the Catholic Community Choir

Catholic Community Choir

Support for their production of Sleeping Beauty

Smiling young girl at Camp Rainbow

St. Edmond’s Home for Children

Support their summer program, Camp Rainbow

Two girls smiling during lunch

Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School

Two white boards for science lab

Four women from the Thea Bowman Women's Center

Thea Women’s Center at St. Francis Inn

One-month supply of household items and toiletries for homeless and at-risk women

St. Rose of Lima School

St. Rose of Lima Catholic School

Textbooks for first grade students

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