Dorothy Day Foundation

08/22/2026

“Where we have stopped dancing, singing, being enchanted by stories or finding comfort in silence is where we have experienced the loss of soul. Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.”
— Angeles Arrien, The Fourfold Way

Dubuque, IA - https://lnkd.in/gKuTSDqP Check out Groundswell Joy Collective and consider joining our $100 donation with your support of $100, or more, to reawaken a sense of belonging, wonder, and connection to the earth and to community through the four participatory, healing salves of Storytelling, Song, Dance, and Silence.

Groundswell Joy Collective - Four practices. One invitation: Come alive.

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08/21/2026

Land Trusts and Catholic Worker Movement Houses & Farms

https://mnland.org/

For Minnesota, a land trust can be an especially strong fit for Catholic Worker houses and farms because it protects land as a shared resource rather than a private asset. That aligns closely with the values of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, who envisioned farming communities rooted in hospitality, stewardship, and the common good.

Here are the primary benefits:

o Permanent Protection of the Mission
o Prevents Speculation
o Supports Simplicity and Voluntary Poverty
o Leadership Continuity
o Access to Grants and Conservation Funding
o Keeps Farming Affordable
o Protects Against Financial Crisis
o Honors the Donor's Intent
o Encourages Ecological Stewardship
o Embodies Catholic Social Teaching

Dorothy Day Foundation – viable, vibrant CW houses and farms.

Disclaimer – Dorothy Day Foundation does not provide legal or tax advice. Consult an attorney or tax professional regarding your specific situation.

08/17/2026

“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.” – Servant of God Dorothy Day.

Minneapolis, MN - I recently volunteered as a fundraising committee member with Theatre in the Round, celebrating its seventy-fifth season this year.
https://www.theatreintheround.org/

I learned that the Twin Cities – Minneapolis and St Paul - have one of the highest concentrations of live theater in America—second only to New York in theater seats per capita and widely recognized as having more live theaters per capita than any U.S. metropolitan area outside New York.

I learned too that people engage with the arts differently than they engage with social services – my interest and focus for the last forty years. That creates an interesting distinction: Arts fundraising often asks, “What do you love enough to sustain?” Social-service fundraising often asks, “What problem do you care enough to solve?”

That raises a third question: “What kind of community do you want to help create?” For our 75-year-old community theater, generous patrons are not just supporting a theater. They are sustaining a place where people gather, stories are shared, volunteers discover their gifts, productions are created, neighbors become friends, and generations experience something together.

Community grows from shared experiences. A legacy theme such as “Support what moved you!” doesn’t just seek funding for a community theater; it calls donors to remember the moments that stayed with them — and to decide whether they want others to be moved in the same way.

Theatre in the Round - 75 Years on Stage. Forever in Our Hearts.

08/12/2026

Our Deepest Fear

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

08/12/2026

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Consider joining our $50 dontation with your gift of $50, or more, to help with St. Francis house repairs.

Dorothy Day Foundation - viablle, vibrant CW houses and farms.

Chicago IL - This year, we continue caring for and improving the St. Francis Catholic Worker House through a number of projects. This work currently includes fully refinishing two additional rooms on the second floor, installing a new "real linoleum" floor and making further improvements to the kitchen, replacing several windows, and repairing the basement shower.

Whether or not you're able to join us, we're grateful for your friendship and solidarity. Your support helps us continue welcoming our neighbors and maintaining a home where hospitality and community can flourish.

With gratitude,

The St. Francis Catholic Worker Community

Dorothy, Quinn, and Daniel

Help support St. Francis Catholic Worker House by donating or sharing with your friends.

08/11/2026

Fragments Reimagined: A Call to Action to End Gun Violence Now.
https://www.mcad.edu/events/fragments-reimagined

Minneapolis MN – Minneapolis MN – Fragments Reimagined: A Call to Action to End Gun Violence Now. Minneapolis College of Art and Design. May 30th – August 8th.

Fragments: the broken pieces, the incomplete, the things left behind. In the aftermath of gun violence, there are countless fragments that leave an indelible mark. It is in the loss of a loved one, the loss of innocence, the loss of a feeling of safety. What if these fragments could also be used to prompt change?

Did you know? More than 200 people experience gun violence every day, with an average of 59% of American adults or someone thy care about experiencing gun violence in their lifetime. – Everytown https://everystat.org/

Featuring over 35 artists, Fragments Reimagined serves as a call to action in our communities, harnessing the transformative power of art to provoke dialogue, foster healing and advocate for change.

Inscription - “Guns are the leading cause of death for kids, ages 1-17.”

08/07/2026

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"The best thing to do with the best things in life is give them away." - Servant of God Dorothy Day.

Consider joining my gift with your donation today of $250, or more, to help transform Pastor Doris's vision to reality. md

08/04/2026

Who Makes You Want to Believe?

Anglican priest Tish Harrison Warren urges readers to find support in the people and communities of faith who surround them:

A question I keep returning to, a question I hold on to, to keep going in the Christian life, is: Who are the believers that make you want to believe?

Whose faithfulness makes you want to be faithful? Surround yourself with these people. Immerse yourself in a church, in a Christian community, whose (albeit imperfect) lives help you learn, see, and seek what is most true, good, and beautiful. Immerse yourself in the stories of saints and works of art that help you to glimpse the wild dance of God in the world.

After I spend time with certain friends and mentors, I’ll catch myself longing to know God like they do. Because the God they follow is kind and gentle, but never a pushover. They live as people who have known agony and ecstasy…… They make me want to believe....

Those who make me want to believe may not make it any less arduous to do so. They do not offer me a faith that costs little or assure me that God affirms whatever it is I already think. But they urge me to persist and to go deep, to seek a life of truth and beauty, to not give up.

They are around me each Sunday in the pews. I show up, maybe feeling angry, impatient, sorry for myself, distracted, or faithless. Yet they are there, still singing and speaking truth over me, praying for me, asking how I'm doing…………. They offer me bread and wine and tell me that this is the presence of God, even if it seems God is nowhere to be found. Their faithfulness makes me want to be faithful. And maybe next week, I’ll do the same for them.

07/24/2026

Helping Catholic Worker Mustard Seed Community Farm (MSCF) flourish with IRA-401K Required Minimum Distributions.

Ames IA – 7/17/2026 - “Hello Michael, I submitted a grant request of $1,000 from our donor advised fund to Dorothy Day Foundation for Mustard Seed's Community Processing Kitchen and Hospitality Space. I think it takes about 48 hours for the grant to be processed and remitted. Thank you, K.M.

MSCF’s $150,000 Processing Kitchen and Hospitality Space expansion benefits from donors’ Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) donations - $15,000 to date.

Your support – consider an RMD donation today of $1,000, or more, to help transform MCCF’s vision to reality.

Did you know? Despite traditional Catholic Worker Movement resistance some Catholic Worker Houses and Farms choose to incorporate as 501(c)(3) nonprofits or partner with separate 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsors for survival.

To accommodate donors making Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs), MSCF https://www.mustardseedfarm.org/ partnered with 501 (c)(3), Dorothy Day Foundation (DDF) - https://www.dorothydayfoundation.org/ , an eligible fiscal sponsor to facilitate donations requiring donor acknowledgement and a tax receipt.

The fiscal sponsor must have 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status to receive donor IRA/401K QCDs. However, holding a 501(c)(3) status alone is not enough; the organization must also be a public charity eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions. To verify eligible charities:

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/search-for-tax-exempt-organizations

In this scenario with MSCF, as their fiscal sponsor, DDF accepts, processes the donor’s RMD, creates and mails a tax receipt, a donor acknowledgement, and remits 100% of the RMD donation to MSCF.

Disclaimer – Dorothy Day Foundation does not provide legal or tax advice. The information herein is general and educational in nature and should not be considered legal or tax advice. Tax laws and regulations are complex and subject to change, which can materially impact investment results. Consult an attorney or tax professional regarding your specific situation.

Dorothy Day Foundation – viable, vibrant CW houses and farms.

07/20/2026

If Dorothy Day’s legacy is your passion, why not make it your legacy?

“How can we go on? We are as sure as we ever were that God can multiply the loaves, as He has sheltered the homeless for these many years.” – Servant of God, Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness.

Challenge – missing resources - financial and volunteer support for the catholicworker.org media publications has not kept pace with growing interest in the Catholic Worker movement and its co-founders Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.

Solution – identify, recruit and engage volunteers with skill sets to guide the catholicworker.org in its next season of growth. Consider joining an advisory website team to keep the catholic worker website media viable and vibrant going forward.

Each month, thousands of people—prospective volunteers, donors, reporters, academics, and fellow Catholic Workers— Search Catholic Worker Communities – Catholic Worker Movement to browse or find CW communities. The website lists two hundred Catholic Worker communities.

In 2021, founding webmaster Catholic Worker, Jim Allaire, passed the baton to successor webmaster, Winona MN Catholic Worker Jerry Windley-Daoust, whose goal was to give the website a “fresh coat of paint; evolving the Catholic Worker website from a static listing of houses to a digital front porch.” In 2024, he added the Catholic Worker RoundTablle publication to his responsibilities.

When Windley-Daoust became website webmaster in the fall of 2021, it received about 8,000 unique visitors every month. Now, he anticipates more than 200,000 visitors to the site annually. He assembled a small team of volunteers to write news about the communities’ activities. The team is ‘running out of steam!’

Your help – lighten the workload in support of resource insecure CWM journalists, Renee Roden and Jerry Windley-Daoust and volunteers. Prayerfully discern how your time, talent, treasure can address missing resources:

Sustainability Revenue – join me today as a $240, or more, founding member or a $60, or more, annual member. To join: https://catholicworker.org/newsletter/ Learn more here.

o Make a recurring monthly donation of $50, or more, to help pay stipends for journalists.

o Make a multi-year pledge of $1,000, or more, for five years to help cover CWM operating costs.

o Make a major gift - donation to honor the legacy of co-founders, Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day.

Also consider joining us as a Website Team volunteer – legal, accounting/bookkeeper, social worker, artist, photographer, librarian, fundraising - lend your skill set to help guide catholicworker.org

Or, other – what do others say you do well? Please share that with us.

Questions? Please contact Website Team Leader Rozella Apel-Hernández - [email protected]

Catholic Worker Movement – loving neighbors, differently.