Articles Tagged: Catherine McAuley Center

Get to Know Gives Back talks to Rachel Cohen from Catherine McAuley Center about the services they provide and how to get involved.

Named executive director of the Catherine McAuley Center on Jan. 14, Anne Dugger took the helm of the nonprofit service provider for refugees, immigrants, women and adult learners. Here’s her vision.

The Catherine McAuley Center in Cedar Rapids says it will layoff 20 staff members, and hundreds of refugees who recently arrived in Iowa may lose support for basic necessities like food, rent and utilities after President Donald Trump’s administration halted federal funding for resettlement agencies.

More than 1,400 refugees expecting to reunite with family members and resettle in Iowa this year are now waiting indefinitely after refugee travel to the U.S. was canceled Tuesday night under President Trump's executive order halting federal programs.

Get to Know more about the Catherine McAuley Center in this Gazette podcast with Anne Dugger, Kristin Bratton and Rachel Cohen

The organization known for its refuge and immigrant services opened in 1989 offering services for women

The Catherine McAuley Center’s poverty simulation, a companion to their refugee simulation, shows how escaping poverty is easier said than done.

The Catherine McAuley Center in Cedar Rapids raised over $5 million during the last few years as part of its “A Place of Welcome” campaign. The goal of the campaign was to fund a new building, which the non-profit moved into in 2020, and to establish an endowment fund, which is an investment fund specifically for non-profit organizations.

The refugee resettlement organization has partnered with the furniture rescue non-profit to better serve the community after welcoming a large influx of Afghans refugees.

See how participants fared in a game simulating the trials and despair of navigating the refugee resettlement process, an event part of Welcoming Week in Cedar Rapids. It’s easier said than done.

When America withdrew from Afghanistan, the sudden influx of Afghan refugees was unprecedented. Many resettlement agencies had already been facing budget and staffing cuts, and they were not prepared for so many refugees to arrive all at once.

See where Cedar Rapids’ Afghan residents live, where they work, their biggest hopes and their biggest fears since the dust settled.

Nearly six months after the first Afghans arrived in Cedar Rapids as they fled the Taliban in Afghanistan, a Catherine McAuley Center case worker said about 250 live in the area.

The center has received about 205 Afghan refugees since October and is expected that to grow to at least 250 this year. That’s in addition to an expected 150 “typical” refugees the Catherine McCuley Center serves.

Less than three months since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, eight humanitarian parolees in Cedar Rapids detail the fall of their home country and their hopes for their new home.