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Fri, Jun 22 2012 12:06:13

Carolyn Woo's Speech to CMC 2012

READ TWEETS FROM BOTTOM TO TOP. Catholic Relief Services' president Carolyn Woo gave a keynote address at the Catholic Media Conference on June 21. Here is a summary of her speech, captured in tweets and photos sent by audience members. A special thanks to America Magazine for the great tweeting.

  1. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: because things are always changing, we always have to innovate
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:40:01
  2. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: catholic social teaching is the bedrock of how we work and what we choose to do
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 11:39:58
  3. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: we must engage us Catholics and to tell our Tory. Only 8 percent of Catholics can name us in unaided survey. If you give them list 80%
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 11:39:58
  4. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: We need to bombard people with good news
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 11:39:58
  5. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: we want to prepare people, culture and structure to support our work. We need to build up our partners
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 11:39:59
  6. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: @CatholicRelief works with 1,250 partners across the world
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:39:18
  7. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: 80 percent of funding for @CatholicRelief comes from competitive grants
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:38:33
  8. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: 94 cents of every $ spent by @CatholicRelief goes to helping the poor
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:37:25
  9. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: We use the model of integral human development. We serve multiple needs through @CatholicRelief
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:36:47
  10. Dr Woo speaking about CRS at #CMC12 http://pic.twitter.com/fkl0mO3l
    Lisa Hendey@LisaHendey
    ·
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:28:43
  11. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: program called From Mountain to Market
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:36:23
  12. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: need to improve quality , quantity and value added of produce for Haitian farmers. Must connect them to retailers.
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:35:39
  13. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: @CatholicRelief knows Haitians must buy 70 % of what they use. We are working with 6000 small farmers into a kind I co-op
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:34:59
  14. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: access, engaging families key to building Haitian catholic schools
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:33:36
  15. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: we are now working to look at the whole catholic education system in Haiti. How do we improve education there
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:31:35
  16. saoberski
    Sally Oberski@saoberski
    Dr. Carolyn Woo says only 1/3 of CRS work is emergency relief. They work to stabilize and maintain iin global disasters.#CMC12
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:36:02
  17. PaulSnatchko
    Paul Snatchko@PaulSnatchko
    Listening to fine remarks by Carolyn Woo about the great work done by @CatholicRelief. #cmc12
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:30:55
  18. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: CRS is not just for emergency services.
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:28:32
  19. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: when a country and the local church work into their own, we leave. over and over again we have worked ourselves out of a job
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:28:21
  20. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: we do this work because of the gospel work of Matthew 25
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:25:45
  21. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: it is our CRS, given by the bishops. The work that it does is darn good. The work of multiple generations.
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:25:28
  22. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Woo: I was intimidated when asked to accept position as COO of Catholic Relief Services.
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:24:21
  23. Dr. Carolyn Woo, COO of Catholic Relief Services, speaks to a packed house at #CMC12 http://pic.twitter.com/1QOXTpyZ
    Catholic Press Assoc@CatholicPress
    ·
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 11:36:44
  24. JohnRivera_CRS
    John Rivera@JohnRivera_CRS
    Carolyn Woo begins her remarks to the Catholic Media Convention by thanking the Catholic press for their coverage. #cmc12
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:26:54
  25. americamag
    America Magazine@americamag
    Ok folks, we're now live tweeting Dr Carolyn Woo's lunchtime address at the Catholic Media Conference #CMC12
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:22:44

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