Role of CRS Southeast

The role of the Catholic Relief Services Southeast Regional Office is to inform and engage U.S. Catholics in the work of global solidarity in the southeastern States. The region places priority on relationships between the people of our country and the people overseas.

CRS Southeast, one of six domestic regional offices, brings opportunities for engagement to the dioceses, institutions and faith based groups in the Southeastern states. The Southeast represents a region with increasing numbers of Hispanic Catholics.

CRS Southeast covers 9 states and 2 territories of the USCCB Regions V and XIV. These states include North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. The territories include the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The Southesast region encompasses 2000 parishes in 31 dioceses with a population of over 5.4 million Catholics.

The Regional Director and staff are the primary point of contact with CRS for the diocesan and parish structure, universities, religious communities and Catholic health care institutions, Catholic schools and parish youth programs, and faith based groups who wish to collaborate with CRS in building awareness and providing opportunities to build relationships of global solidarity in the Southeastern United States. CRS Southeast also coordinates programs and events with CRS fundraising (especially with Major Gifts Officers in the region), media and marketing departments.

Goals and Objectives

The goal of CRS Southeast is to make CRS present in the Southeastern states, to serve U.S. Catholics through diocesan and other institutional structures, to build awareness of our work and the needs of the poor by providing resources and opportunities for engagement in global solidarity activities.

Objectives:

• To ensure that all diocesan ministries in the Southeast recognize that they are challenged by the call to Global Solidarity and have appropriate opportunities to respond to that call.
• To inform and enable educational institutions, social service institutions and networks, and other faith based groups respond to the call for Global Solidarity in their respective ministries.
• To project CRS and the U.S. Catholic Church as a "servant leader" and a "voice for the poor and marginalized" in the promotion of charity and justice in the world to U.S. Catholics and society in the Southeastern States.
• To increase support for CRS activities and programs, both domestic and overseas.