The Mother Teresa Endowment Fund
The Mother Teresa Endowment Fund of the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw provides assistance to individuals or couples experiencing limited financial resources while awaiting the birth of their child and/or during the initial period following the birth. The fund was originally established through the generous gifts of many individuals to support LIFE. The dollars contributed are invested and the interest generated provides revenue for the assistance. These gift dollars keep working in perpetuity to promote and support new life.
Donations
Would you like to help a family facing these challenges? Donations to the Mother Teresa Endowment Fund are welcomed at any time and are tax-deductible. If you want to help, click here to contribute to the Mother Teresa Endowment Fund. The funds are managed through the Catholic Community Foundation of Mid-Michigan.
For Assistance
If you are in need of help paying for utility bills, food, clothing, housing, basic needs, etc. you may apply for assistance through the Mother Teresa Fund follow this link for the online application. Once the application is submitted, you will get a call from the Diocese of Saginaw. A special committee reviews the application and determines the amount of assistance based upon need and the availability of dollars. Should you need help in completing the application or if this is an emergency situation, please call Kelly Hadd at 989-797-6655 or email at link at the bottom of the page.
Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making herself available for everyone through her welcome and defense of human life, those unborn and those abandoned and discarded. She was committed to defending life, ceaselessly proclaiming that “the unborn are the weakest, the smallest, the most vulnerable.” She bowed down before those who were spent, left to die on the side of the road, seeing in them their God-given dignity. She made her voice heard before the powers of this world, so that they might recognize their guilt for the crime of poverty they created. For Mother Teresa, mercy was the “salt” which gave flavor to her work, it was the “light” which shone in the darkness of the many who no longer had tears to shed for their poverty and suffering.