Tag: CRS Leadership
Carolyn Woo to Address the USCCB at 11:45 EDT
June 13, 2012
Dr. Carolyn Y. Woo, president & CEO of Catholic Relief Services, will deliver her first address to the General Assembly of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops today at 11:45 EDT in Atlanta. Click here to watch the live stream.
Carolyn Woo on the G8: Don't Leave Hunger Off the Global Agenda
May 17, 2012
This weekend’s G8 meeting at Camp David will be held a stone’s throw from CRS World Headquarters in Baltimore. CRS President & CEO Carolyn Woo writes in the Baltimore Sun that these world leaders must address the needs of the world’s hungry in their deliberations. When the leaders of the globe’s biggest economies — the [...]
CRS World Report: The Strength of Mothers
May 11, 2012
When Carolyn Woo, CRS’ new president and mother of two sons, thinks of motherhood, she sees a constellation of women connected by faith and love.
Bishop Kicanas in America Magazine: Three Days in Cuba
May 1, 2012
Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, CRS Board Chair, has an article in the latest issue of America magazine on his recent to Cuba as part of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops delegation for the pastoral visit of Pope Benedict XVI. In the article, he talks about his first impressions of the nation that is so [...]
CRS President to Address Notre Dame Business School Graduation
April 23, 2012
Dr. Carolyn Woo, president & CEO of Catholic Relief Services, will be the featured speaker at this year’s graduate commencement of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, where she served as dean before joining CRS. Dr. Woo will also be presented with an honorary degree at the general commencement, along [...]
Two CRS Staff to Receive Honorary Degrees from University of Notre Dame
April 12, 2012
Two members of our CRS family, Dr. Jude Banatte of CRS Haiti, and Dr. Carolyn Woo, president & CEO, will be honored with honorary degrees by the University of Notre Dame at its May 20 commencement. And at the same ceremony, former CRS President Ken Hackett will receive the University of Notre Dame’s 2012 Laetare [...]
Video of Carolyn Woo at Harvard: "Integrity and Success are not Trade-Offs"
April 9, 2012
CRS President & CEO Carolyn Woo spoke recently at The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University on her transition from serving as the dean of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame to leading an international humanitarian organization with programs in nearly 100 countries. She was interviewed by Claire [...]
World Water Day 2012: Your Gift of Water is Something to Celebrate
March 22, 2012
By Carolyn Y. Woo CRS President & CEO Getting water is so simple for us: We turn on the faucet, and there it is. When that doesn’t happen—maybe a water pipe breaks or maintenance shuts off the supply—we consider it a huge hardship. I experienced that once as a young girl in Hong Kong, then [...]
Former CRS Pres. Ken Hackett to receive Notre Dame's Laetare Medal
March 18, 2012
From the ND Newswire: Ken Hackett, former president of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), will receive the University of Notre Dame’s 2012 Laetare Medal, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics, at Notre Dame’s 167th University Commencement ceremony May 20 (Sunday). “Ken Hackett has responded to a Gospel imperative with his entire career,” [...]
Carolyn Woo on International Women's Day
March 8, 2012
An essay by CRS President & CEO Carolyn Woo in commemoration of today’s observance of International Women’s Day. As I grew up, more important than wanting a different life was being able to imagine one. On today’s observance of International Women’s Day, I want to pay tribute to the women who made that possible: the [...]