Pastoral Care Funds

Grant funding supports Parishes and pastoral care programs in the Diocese of Bridgeport. With a focus on reinvigorating our Catholic faith and formation, this foundations prioritizes youth, vocations, discipleship, evangelization and justice. We are on a life long journey and strive to love and accompany our brothers, sisters and neighbors especially the most vulnerable among us. Click here to learn about the nine funds/ministries.

Grant Opportunities

We believe in partnerships, financial and human. Parishes and Diocese of Bridgeport programs have the opportunity to apply and receive grants to support Bishop Caggiano's vision for reinvigorating faith formation, discipleship and missionary outreach. The foundation has three types of grants designed to target and elevate smart, creative approaches to enhancing Pastoral Care. Click here to read more.

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Foundations In Faith

Foundations in Faith embraces innovative approaches to funding Pastoral Care programs in the Diocese of Bridgeport. Resources focus on energizing lifelong formation and discipleship and fostering a commitment to justice and accompaniment with our most vulnerable.

From Seminarians to Retired Priests, from Baptism to Last Rites, from suburbs to Inner cities.

The reach is broad, and the impact is meaningful.

Ensuring the vitality of our church demands immediate and ongoing efforts to listen, learn, connect, create, leverage and partner. Investments in time, talent and treasure will create furtile ground to plant seeds of discipleship. In our parish ministries, we must innovate, increase our evangelization efforts to welcome folks to come to or in some cases return to participation in parish life. Forming young people committed to Christ requires the reimagining of faith formation and the expansion of meaningful youth ministry programs. Our seminarys must continue to welcome, educate and form men for the priesthood, and as a Catholic community we will embrace our commitment to provide for the needs of our retired priests.

In our community, we must continue to show God’s love to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities; and meet the spiritual needs of the elderly living in nursing homes. Foundations in Faith will empower the Church in Fairfield County to support, strengthen and build collaborations to enrich our varied pastoral ministries.

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The power of Perpetuity!
We love #GranteeGratitude Mondays because it gives us a chance to highlight the broad scope of our grantees. Up and down the @dioceseofbridgeport and across Parishes, Ministries, and Diocesan teams. Today, from one of JP II grant recipients and St. Francis Xavier Fund parish: St. Peter, Bridgeport 🤍
Happy Monday with another edition of #granteegratitude! Foundations in Faith is proud to support a wide range of Diocese of Bridgeport parishes and ministries!
Another #GranteeGratitude Monday! Grants for youth groups are always a good investment 🤍
FIF Grantees.  Take a look at Carol’s ‘Communication Toolkit’  Share the good news!
Monday is #GranteeGratitude here at Foundations in Faith! It is our honor to work with new and longstanding Diocese of Bridgeport ministries!
Another dose of #GranteeGratitude 😊 We hope you’re all getting your programs ready for Fall! #catholic #faithformation
Foundations in Faith is grateful to our amazing Grant Review Team. Thank you for your help, your dedication and your fellowship.  Fondly, Carol and Kelly
In 2024-25, the JPII Fund for Faith Formation awarded $184,682 to fund programs at the parochial and diocesan levels. Some of our grantees expressed their gratitude… 😊 #GranteeGratitude #FaithFormation #catholic
Happy Birthday to Fr. Milan Dimic on his 66th birthday which is today June 28th and the 39th Anniversary of priestly ordination tomorrow.  Thank you for all that you do at St. Andrew Church and the Diocese of Bridgeport! Fr. Milan on the left is helping Chef Lisa prep dinner.  He is also a big fan of soccer.  Guess which team. Hint - namesake. 🎂