CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN

Provide Help and Create Hope

December 3, 2025

Interested in sponsoring our upcoming event? Email Karol Maurer at kmaurer@ccwestmi.org!

Each year, our Raising Hope fundraiser dinner serves to support over 50 social service programs provided by Catholic Charities West Michigan. Through these programs, CCWM provides help and creates hope for more than 15,000 individuals in West Michigan each year. With your support, we served over 20,000 individuals last year alone.

At Raising Hope 2025, join us for a message from keynote speaker Dr. Gianna Emanuela Molla along with success stories from individuals and families whose lives were changed through our programs.

Dr. Gianna Emanuela Molla

Dr. Gianna Molla serves full time, with great joy, enthusiasm and deepest gratitude to Our Lord, to spread around the world, particularly in the United States of America, the knowledge of and devotion to her Saint Mother, who sacrificed her own life to give her life, and her holy father, Pietro. She is a Co-Founder, Lifetime Member of the Board of Directors, and an Officer (Secretary of the Board) of the “Saint Gianna Beretta Molla and Pietro Molla Foundation,” a North Dakota, USA, Non-Profit Corporation which pursues exclusively essential religious, educational and charitable purposes, aiming to honor, perpetuate and spread around the world the memory, example, testimony and spirituality of Saint Gianna and her saintly spouse Pietro.

Sponsor

Provide help and create hope by becoming a sponsor. For more information, click the button below!

Stories of Hope

Raising Hope give us the opportunity to gather together and give back to our community in need, rewriting lives with hope as our narrative. These are West Michigan’s stories of hope penned by your generosity.

Click below to view each story.

Get Involved

Want to support our upcoming event? You can make a difference in the lives of the thousands of people we serve each year!

For sponsorship information or event questions, please contact Karol Maurer at kmaurer@ccwestmi.org or (616) 356-6207.

For individual and group volunteer opportunities, contact Marianne Bockheim-Verhil at mbverhil@ccwestmi.org or (616) 438-2735.

Thank You to Our Sponsors

PREMIER SPONSORS

PLATINUM SPONSORS

John and Mary Hendrickson

GOLD SPONSORS

SILVER SPONSORS

Matt and Edie Bryant

BRONZE SPONSORS

Dr. Matthew and Mrs. Katie Tate

Michael and Hannah Naltner

Dr. James and Katie Hudson

Russ and Chris Visner 

TABLE HOSTS

Dr. John and Mary Hartmann

Ronald and Joan Griffith

St. Robert’s School Families

Greg and Susan Griffith

Andy and Maria Young