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
BRONZE SPONSORS
Dr. Matthew and Mrs. Katie Tate
Michael and Hannah Naltner
Dr. James and Katie Hudson
Russ and Chris Visner