How the Dominican Republic Changed My Life

News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2013

It had been a long morning in the Dominican Republic, visiting a local community called Antonci. We had just spent hours in the crop fields under the Caribbean sun, learning all of the wonderful ways in which CWS and our local partners have helped transform this community and the families who live here. We were just about to leave when …

Fundraising Safari: Young People Get Creative to Respond to Sandy

News & Updates | Posted Monday, February 4, 2013

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work as a CWS field staff person?  You know, the people who help you organize your CROP Hunger Walks, you Blankets+ Sundays and your CWS Kits collections?  Well, thanks to the new CWS Blog and yours truly, you will now have an inside look. The best part of working as CWS field …

Welcome to the CWS Blog

News & Updates | Posted Thursday, January 31, 2013

Welcome to your blog. What joins us together is our relentlessness in the fight to end hunger and poverty. We are CWS and so are you! This is a public marketplace for actively sharing ideas, best practices, and informing each other of key areas where our activism is needed. Every one of us cares about the world well beyond our …

On Long Island, spring shipments help after storms

News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Freeport, New York – To outsiders, New York’s Long Island may evoke images of summer homes and beach living. But economic hard times have not been kind to working-class communities like Freeport. And the damage brought by Hurricane Sandy has only worsened — and deeply so — what have already been tough years. “For some of the most vulnerable on …

CWS Elects Diverse Board to Advance Agency Vision

News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2012

CWS members unanimously elected a new Board of Directors at the humanitarian agency’s October 2012 Annual Members Meeting. Elections to the smaller, non-representative board were drawn from a broad variety of professional backgrounds, including foundations, development agencies, corporations and advocacy organizations. For more than 65 years, the board of Church World Service has been composed of representatives from its member …

Hurricane Sandy Southern Ohio event: Volunteers gather to ship supplies for survivors

News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, November 7, 2012

For the latest updates, visit our Hurricane Sandy emergency information page. Eaton, Ohio – In the struggling aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, with a fresh Northeaster headed for the same affected coastal areas later this week, humanitarian agency Church World Service and supporters around the nation are continuing to assist survivors with collections, shipments and distribution of emergency kits, blankets and …

CWS remembers champion of the poor

News & Updates | Posted Sunday, October 21, 2012

George McGovern was a friend to humanitarian agency Church World Service and to anyone concerned about the issue of hunger and malnutrition in the world. As the one-time United Nations Ambassador to the Hungry, Senator McGovern had always made battling hunger a top concern, even when the political winds did not favor that fight as a topical concern. But, unfortunately, …

CWS urges Americans to join actions for World Food Day

News & Updates | Posted Thursday, September 20, 2012

New York, N.Y. — Looking toward World Food Day – Tuesday, October 16 – humanitarian agency Church World Service has called for Americans to make the fight to end hunger a regular part of their daily diets, citing the one in seven people who are hungry in the world, a looming food crisis and, in the U.S., the 1 in 6 people …

Growing food and protecting the land

News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Even in the face of the grinding poverty that is a fact of life for indigenous people living in climate-challenged regions of northern Nicaragua, some families are not just using new techniques to grow bigger and better crops, but also working to generate income by selling their surplus produce. That was the message from a delegation from Nicaraguan organization Christian …

CWS Emergency Appeal: 2012 Summer Storms and Wildfires

News & Updates | Posted Monday, July 9, 2012

Appeal #:627-U CWS Appeal Goal: $30,000 Situation In recent weeks, communities across the United States have been affected by diverse disasters, including severe storms, wildfires and a tropical depression. This appeal summarizes several disasters and describes the CWS response. Minnesota: Severe storms struck the Duluth area in late June, dumping as much as 10 inches of rain in some areas …