Grants In Your Region

Room at the Inn provides housing and programs to pregnant women and single mothers with children. All clients are homeless at time of program entry and at poverty level incomes. Our programs are designed to help the mothers experience healthy births, transition to their own housing, complete educational/vocational programs and to secure employment. A grant from the Federal Association is funding child care for seven mothers while they undergo job training programs.

The cost and availability of childcare is a significant barrier in Guilford County. To provide support with childcare, we will offer childcare scholarships to maternity home graduates who obtain employment or enroll in vocational/education programs. These scholarships will enable those in education programs to attend classes and interview for jobs. For those who obtain jobs, these scholarships will temporarily bridge the gap in time until they are able to obtain state-funded child care subsidies. These scholarships will be paid directly to licensed, star-rated child care facilities of the mother’s choice that are located near her home, school, or workplace as appropriate.

Holy Angels is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation and sponsored ministry of the Sisters of Mercy South Central Community.  Holy Angels serves 101 individuals, ages 8 months to 72 years, all whom have varying degrees of intellectual developmental disabilities and physical disabilities, such as respiratory disorders, cerebral palsy, cortical blindness and traumatic brain injuries. Many are considered “medically fragile” requiring 24-hour nursing care in the Holy Angels’ Morrow Center.

Upon receipt of the grant, Holy Angels sent a letter showing their gratitude: “On behalf of the residents, staff and families of Holy Angels, please accept our deepest appreciation for awarding [us] a grant of $25,000 to be used to upgrade, remodel and refurbish three bathing areas at our Morrow Center and two bathing rooms. We are indeed humbled and honored by your grant.”

The Sisters serve the sick and the poor with a medical supply and equipment recovery program (recover, repackage and distribute life-saving medical supplies and equipment to the poorest countries worldwide)

The Women’s Care Center (WCC) is a Catholic nonprofit organization that ministers to women facing unplanned pregnancies, by equipping them with the information and services needed to choose life for their unborn babies. Located immediately next door to a very active abortion clinic, the WCC directly offers women free, confidential walk-in services, including ultrasounds and counseling, to prevent them from following through on plans to abort their children. Many abortion-minded women who receive WCC services choose life for their babies. WCC clients who choose life receive access to a wide variety of ongoing services including counseling, prenatal education, birth preparation, prenatal vitamins, community referrals, parenting skills classes, adoption education, baby care training, and Catholic-based abstinence education. All the programs are incentive-based, so parents earn free cribs, car seats, diapers, and baby items by participating in education.

Every penny of the Federal Association’s grant is being used to purchase new car seats, cribs, and crib mattresses for the Crib Club, along with many other baby needs that we have been unable to offer due to lack of funding. Items such as bouncy chairs, boppy pillows, car seat covers, baby monitors, protective items (baby gates, etc.), high chairs, maternity clothing, new infant and toddler clothing, just to name a few. Our crib store is in constant need of replenishment and this grant will allow us to serve our many existing clients as well as reach out to new ones.

Their mission is to provide free primary health care to the uninsured. They deliver that health care through operation of a mobile care vehicle that has a fixed schedule in four distinct neighborhoods across the City of Hartford. Coupled with coordinated communication efforts at schools, homeless shelters, parishes and churches, community outreach and ready access to those who are most in need is assured.

The Malta House of Care Mobile Medical Clinic has been key in responding to the plight of the uninsured in the Greater Hartford CT region for the past five years. Through a dedicated cadre of physician, nurse and non-medical volunteers, the Malta House of Care Mobile Medical Clinic has provided over 24,800 patient visits over that time period with 2,200 individuals identifying Malta House of Care as their only medical home.

Houston Catholic Charities runs the Mamie George Community Center in a poor neighborhood just outside the city of Houston to nurture and care for children, strengthen low-income families, support refugees and immigrants, and promote independence for seniors. Members of the Houston region of the Federal Association partner with the center to lead the Food Fair every month.

San Jose Apartments are managed by the Catholic Family Housing Management Company. Located in Duval County, Florida, San Jose Apartments consist of two buildings with 99 apartments.  Residents of this low-income HUD apartment complex are in their 70’s and 80’s, and have an annual income of $15,450 or less. While these seniors are fortunate to have a home, they lack the resources for much else. Some even suffer from anxiety if they leave the safe space of their home. Because of this, often the seniors at the San Jose Apartments become isolated, rarely leaving their apartment, because there are no means for them to travel anywhere else.

To get the seniors out of their apartments and give them much needed human connection with their neighbors, San Jose Apartments added a beautiful outdoor space including a gazebo in 2005. For nearly fifteen years, the seniors of the San Jose Apartments enjoyed their gazebo as a space for them to socialize and enjoy nature together. In 2019, the management at the San Jose Apartments was saddened to learn the useful life of the gazebo was over, and that it had to be either significantly renovated or replaced, despite their diligent care of the gazebo.

The local Knights and Dames feel so passionately about the need for this gazebo, that they have volunteered to make it even more beautiful once it is renovated. They have pledged to provide landscaping and beautiful flowers all around the gazebo for the seniors to enjoy. Together, we can provide a lasting, beautiful space for these seniors to continue enjoying nature, just outside their front door. Together with a grant from the Federal Association, they are helping to restore the gazebo and surrounding space for the residents of San Jose Apartments.

Provides in-patient care for men and women who are poor and disabled and elderly with functional limitations or chronic health conditions with special facilities for suffers from Alzheimers and dementia.

The Bishop Sullivan Center includes two food pantries serving over 1,300 families each month, a Community Kitchen serving hot meals to about 280 people five nights a week, emergency assistance for rent, utilities, and other basic needs, air conditioners for indigent elderly, food delivery to the homebound elderly, clothing services, and employment services which support more than 165 people.

Saint Vincent and Duchesne Clinics are doctors' offices for the uninsured poor, bringing health and hope by providing quality medical care with dignity and respect. Founded by the Sisters of Charity over twenty-five years ago, Saint Vincent and Duchesne Clinics provide primary medical care, chronic disease management, prevention, education and care coordination. This past year, each day 71 of the clinics' 2,899 patients received care. The grant money helped to convert to an Electronic Medical Records system which means better care for patients and better ways to track the impact of care. Every $1 donated provided $3 worth of medical care for the poor and underinsured

The Lafayette Home Repair Program is modeled on and grew out of the New Orleans Home Repair Program which operated from 2006-2016. The Lafayette program began in 2017 in response to the once-in-a-thousand-year flood in August 2016. Over 146,000 homes were damaged by the flooding. Because the vast majority of the areas that flooded had never flooded before, most affected homeowners did not have flood insurance.

Since January 2017, more than sixty Order of Malta volunteers have contributed nearly 2,000 hours of hands-on assistance to repair the homes of the rural poor. In February 2019, more than thirty volunteers from more at least seven Federal Association regions worked four full days.

Our partners in the program are Rebuilding Together Acadiana and Catholic Charities of Acadiana. They provide logistical support in identifying needy homeowners and managing the worksites for our volunteers

Iglesia Católica San Juan Bautista is the only Hispanic parish in the Diocese of Harrisburg, dedicated particularly to the spiritual and temporal needs of Hispanics in the County of Lancaster. Our roots at San Juan Bautista are 25 years in the growing, and are proud of our Catholic faith and our Hispanic culture, which enrich our lives and empower us to be faithful followers of the Lord Jesus Christ.

A $25,000 grant from the Federal Association awarded to the Brown Bag Lunch Program at St. Anne Catholic Church of Lancaster, PA funded a transformation of the kitchen, storage area and bathroom used for this program. The improved spaces have afforded the program greater efficiency to meet the growing number of people requesting a daily lunch.

The Brown Bag Lunch Program is an active ministry with significant impact in the community.  It provides the only noontime meal in the city of Lancaster to all who come to the door. In existence over 20 years, the program provides an average of 140 nutritious lunches daily, five days per week, serving over 22,000 lunches in the past year. The program is staffed by more than 50 volunteers from the Lancaster community, including Members of the Order who work at the program monthly. The Brown Bag Lunch Program fulfills a vital mission in Lancaster, and the Order has provided much needed support to maintain and continue the goal of this program while honoring one of the charisms of the Order: serving the poor.

Rosaria Communities fosters the construction or renovation of houses to provide independent living opportunities for people with intellectual and physical disabilities. Rosaria homes assure an environment of comfort and care in which the spiritual needs of our residents are supported by an involved Catholic community. Rosaria homes provide direct and meaningful support for a population of low-income young adults with intellectual and physical disabilities by creating a family-like environment within a loving and supportive Catholic community..

St. Ann's residential programs deliver critical services to at-risk recipients and their children from the Washington, DC metro area including surrounding counties in Maryland. In both of its resdential programs- one for pregnant and parenting teens, and another for homeless women with young children- St. Ann's addresses the root causes of poverty as it serves families so deeply affected by that poverty. 

The Teen Mother-Baby program serves pregnant and parenting teen girls ages 13 to 21 and their babies. Most are young women from social services programs such as the Department of Social Services and the Department of Juvenile Services. In the event of a power outage, the lights, heating/cooling, refrigeration, food preparation, and elevator operations of the facility would potentially be adversely affected. The recent auxiliary power generator was original to the building, installed in 1962 and is no longer operable. A strong, functional building is vital to St. Ann's ability to fulfill the mission of the organization. Thanks to a grant from the Federal Association, St. Ann’s has been able to replace this generator to ensure continuous operation for years to come.

The New Orleans Home Repair Program served low-income elderly and disabled homeowners living in damaged or substandard housing. It improved their lives and enables them to remain in their homes. For volunteers, it combined worship, fellowship, and hands-on service to the poor.

The program was established in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina. Since then, the Order and its partner, Rebuilding Together, a local non-profit, have repaired 55 homes. In nine years, more than 1,000 Order of Malta volunteers from the Order's three U.S. associations and the Canadian Association —Knights, Dames, Chaplains, Auxiliary, family, and friends—have served in the program. Together they have donated a total of over 50,000 hours of service. It is truly a work of the Order.

Catholic Distance University has served the Incarcerated Church since 1984 by offering paper-based courses that feed both the spirit and the intellect. A number of CDU's incarcerated students have earned BA and MA degrees in Theology and Advanced Catechist Certificates. Many more have taken inspiring continuing education courses that have deepened their relationship with God and provided a new sense of purpose.

CDU's incarcerated students have used their education to evangelize fellow inmates, spreading the Word of God and knowledge of His great love to those imprisoned in an environment mired in despair. CDU understands the importance of reaching beyond prison walls because many chaplains are not Catholic, many prisons have few Catholic chaplain visits or resources, and many prisoners are at risk and need hope. Historically, CDU has served an average of 40 prisoners at any one time.

In 2017, with support from an Order of Malta grant, CDU researched, tested, and developed a digital Catholic education program on Edovo's intranet prison tablets. CDU is the only Catholic educational program on this platform. In total, over 500 incarcerated students have already engaged with their courses more than a thousand times in just 9 weeks.

The results not only prove that the teachings of the Church are in great demand among incarcerated Catholics, it also exhibits the efficiency of technology to bring the word of God beyond prison walls. The number of enrollments in 9 weeks is 14 times the number of prisoners typically served during the same period.

CDU has only scratched the surface of the potential to reach and teach incarcerated Catholics. With continuing grant support, they aim to significantly advance their mutual goals to efficiently, effectively, and rapidly educate thousands of Catholics behind bars with the gospel message of compassion, forgiveness, hope, and assistance.

L'Arche Greater Washington, D.C. is an interdenominational Christian community of people with and without intellectual disabilities who share their lives together. Since its inception in 1983, L'Arche Greater Washington, D.C. has provided adults who have intellectual disabilities with permanent homes, individualized support services, and opportunities for inclusion in society. Today, a total of 16 core people live in four L'Arche homes in two Adams Morgan and two in Arlington, along with assistants who provide support and friendship.  Our grant in 2015 of $25,000 helped to build capacity to provide daytime services for their clients.

The Mobile Response Center (MRC) provides basic, non-food household essentials to impoverished communities in the Diocese of Arlington. These items include personal hygiene items, laundry detergent, toilet paper, diapers and other assorted household items. The MRC also distributes seasonal items, including blankets, winter coats or hats and gloves as appropriate. The MRC currently distributes items in Shenandoah County at the St. John Bosco Catholic Outreach Center. Poverty in the county is at 10.3% and childhood poverty is at 18%. Catholic Charities has identified an additional five sites in the Diocese requesting services from the MRC.

A grant from the Federal Association is allowing the MRC to expand to two additional distribution sites. These include Westmoreland County where the poverty rate is 9.5% overall and 29% for children, and Orange County with 8.9% poverty overall and 15% for children. The MRC will ensure impoverished families have basic household goods needed to ensure a safe and clean environment for their families. We anticipate serving an additional 160 families (590 individuals) per month, for a total of 252 households (930 individuals) across three sites.

The Coats for the Homeless program seeks to provide a direct and meaningful benefit to the homeless population not only in Oklahoma City, where the homeless population is estimated at around 5,000 people, but also in the broader metropolitan area. Utilizing the model of the Australian Association, our members will be directly involved with the distribution of coats to the homeless through our existing relationships with Sister BJ's Pantry, Catholic Charities, Jesus House, and others.

Together with a diverse network of collaborators, the Little Sisters of the Poor serve the elderly poor in over 30 countries around the world. Thanks to a grant from the Federal Association, the Pittsburgh region helped sustain their "Order of Malta Pharmacy Fund" to cover unfunded over-the-counter and prescription medicine for elderly poor in 2017.

The Diocese of Richmond runs St. Francis Home to serve the needs of seniors and disabled people with limited or no income. With a grant from the Federal Association, they were able to turn storage space into a chapel that can now be used for Mass for the residents and their guests.

The Ignatian Spirituality Project (ISP) began in 1999 when Fr. Bill Creed, SJ was invited to begin making the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius available to the economically disadvantaged. The Exercises, a program with some 450 years of tradition, focus on seeking union with God and achieving inner freedom to reach that end. Today’s homeless population, like many of us, struggles profoundly with this separation, and, as such, responds profoundly to God’s desire for deeper freedom. Knights and Dames support has helped sponsor retreats for men and women who are already working toward ending their homelessness.

Saint Luke is a Catholic education and treatment center for clergy and religious men and women. The treatment programs serve those who are sick and need the Institute's specialized care, but cannot afford the cost.

Guided by the beliefs and morals, traditions of the Catholic Church, The Holy Family Hospital is dedicated to providing quality care for women and infants, without regard to religion or national origins and committed to continuing education as a means of ensuring quality patient care for the Poor and Sick. Since 2010 the Federal Association has sponsored the hospital's mobile outreach clinic.

Daughters of Charity, based in Haiti, was awarded $10,000.00 to support their school and health and nutrition center in Cite Soleil, the worst slum in Port au Prince, which serves children from infancy to grade six. Here, they treat infants and children suffering from severe malnutrition, feeding them breakfast and lunch, providing medical care, and educating them in their school. They also educate the children’s mothers, most of them single parents, in parenting, cooking and sewing skills.

Program Administrator Sr. Victoria Obando Pineda states, “In the health clinic they see daily 100 pregnant women and 200 children less than 5 years old, plus the students at the school and kindergarten that might be sick. From Monday to Friday, they have 50 children in the center for nutritional recuperation, and every 15 days they are tracking 80 children that are in the process of recuperation. They have monthly counseling sessions for pregnant women with HIV.”

Educate the Children, Bolivia is a mission project of the Diocesan Mission Council for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas. The program offers various educational programs to children and adults in the rural area in and around surrounding Cabezas, Bolivia. Father Robert Thames runs the program, which provides housing, food, school supplies, and clothing to the students, from his parish of Senora del Carmen in Cabezas. It operates in rural, impoverished area of Cabezas, Bolivia. There are currently 931 students, including adults, enrolled in the various education programs. Educate the Children provides living quarters, free meals, and financial assistance towards school supplies and clothing. The grant was used to help purchase agricultural equipment to help make it more self-sustainable.

In 2010, over $200,000 in grants were distributed to five Haitian-based charities by the Federal Association as part of its Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts. The Association raised over $258,000 from our members and friends and our contributions helped to provide emergency supplies and a prosthetic clinic to Crudem and Hopital Sacre Coeur; to the Sisters of Charity and Matthew 25 House in Port Au Prince and to Homes from the Heart for building new houses.

Every year, members of the New Orleans region travel to the city of Granada to treat its impoverished sick. The group of 20 doctors, nurses, dentists, and volunteers treats 1,200 to 2,000 patients over the course of a week-long visit. While the volunteers pay for their own travel, food, and lodging, the Federal Association's Grants program covers the cost of the medicine, surgical supplies, and other costs involved in the treatment of the sick and the poor.

Maryknoll Lay Missioners is a Catholic organization inspired by the mission of Jesus to live and work with poor communities in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, responding to basic needs and helping to create a more just and compassionate world.
We have helped their impact through soy workshops. The Soy Program introduces affordable recipes with soy, to increase the nutritive value of the Salvadoran Diet.

Watts of Love received $25,000.00 to purchase and distribute 500 LED solar lanterns, 500 solar backpacks, and 500 thumb-drives with the New Testament to vulnerable communities in Haiti.

The message below is from Erica Whelan, Development Coordinator at Watts of Love:

“On behalf of our staff at Watts of Love, we would like to thank the Order of Malta for your incredible contribution to our mission to eliminate poverty by illuminating lives! Our organization is very excited about completing our program and delivering these solar lanterns to Haiti.

On behalf of our staff, we thank the Order of Malta from the bottoms of our hearts for making this project possible and for partnering with Watts of Love to deliver solar light relief, love and HOPE to the vulnerable people who will receive our lights (HOPE stands for Health, Opportunity, Power and Education).”