Cross Catholic Outreach

More than 95% of all organizational expenses, included donated goods, went directly to programs that help the poor during fiscal year 2019. Only 4.55% was used for overhead costs.

Dear Donnie, First, thank you for being a generous donor since 2011! To fund nearly 300 projects in 28 countries each year, we solicit the help of those donors who have responded to our requests for support. We do that by sending monthly appeals to donors, which is one of the main ways that we raise money to help the poor. Last year the average cost of an appeal was $0.43, sometimes more and sometimes less, so you can be assured that we’re not wasting money. Our total cost for fundraising typically is less than 5% of our expenses. We can certainly code your record to receive no more mail or less mail; we’re always happy to accommodate such requests from our donors. Blessings

Thank you for your inquiry. We are not aware of the disagreements you mention. Cross Catholic Outreach is focused and dedicated to serving the poor for the glory of Jesus Christ! Cross Catholic Outreach gives faithful American Catholics unique opportunities to empower the global Church to serve the poor in Christ’s name through specific works of mercy around the world. In this way, we all can equip priests, nuns and lay leaders working internationally to meet the most urgent needs in their communities and proclaim God’s love in both word and deed. To dig into the impact American Catholics are having around the world through Cross Catholic Outreach, please visit www.crosscatholic.org/impact.

A donation of any amount is so appreciated! Seniors who support our mission have given as little as $5 or as much as $500,000. You may also want to consider a monthly gift which allows you to play a critical role in the long-term effort to serve and empower the world’s poor and vulnerable in Christ’s name.Those monthly gifts, even a small amount, add up. If you would like to peruse our website to find a type of aid that tugs at your heart, please visit us at www.CrossCatholic.org or feel free to call a Donor Care Specialist to donate securely by phone – 800-914-2420. Thank you again for your heart for the poorest of the poor!

Cross Catholic Outreach and Cross International are only related in the sense that they were founded by the same president, Jim Cavnar. From Cross Catholic Outreach’s founding date forward, each has had a completely different board of directors, different budgets and supported different missions overseas. From 2001 to 2018, the organizations shared some staff resources in addition to Jim, such as human resources, accounting and technical support, in order to reduce costs. In 2018, Cross Catholic Outreach became completely independent of Cross International, with Jim Cavnar remaining the president of CCO and Kelly Miller taking over as CI’s president. The executives and other key staff members of the two ministries have been completely different and independent since then.