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. Woo: because things are always changing, we always have to innovate
  2. Woo: catholic social teaching is the bedrock of how we work and what we choose to do
  3. 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%
  4. Woo: we want to prepare people, culture and structure to support our work. We need to build up our partners
  5. Woo: 80 percent of funding for @CatholicRelief comes from competitive grants
  6. Woo: 94 cents of every $ spent by @CatholicRelief goes to helping the poor
  7. Woo: We use the model of integral human development. We serve multiple needs through @CatholicRelief
  8. Woo: need to improve quality , quantity and value added of produce for Haitian farmers. Must connect them to retailers.
  9. Woo: @CatholicRelief knows Haitians must buy 70 % of what they use. We are working with 6000 small farmers into a kind I co-op
  10. Woo: access, engaging families key to building Haitian catholic schools
  11. Woo: we are now working to look at the whole catholic education system in Haiti. How do we improve education there
  12. Dr. Carolyn Woo says only 1/3 of CRS work is emergency relief. They work to stabilize and maintain iin global disasters.#CMC12
  13. Listening to fine remarks by Carolyn Woo about the great work done by @CatholicRelief. #cmc12
  14. 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
  15. Woo: we do this work because of the gospel work of Matthew 25
  16. Woo: it is our CRS, given by the bishops. The work that it does is darn good. The work of multiple generations.
  17. Woo: I was intimidated when asked to accept position as COO of Catholic Relief Services.
  18. Dr. Carolyn Woo, COO of Catholic Relief Services, speaks to a packed house at #CMC12 http://pic.twitter.com/1QOXTpyZ
  19. Carolyn Woo begins her remarks to the Catholic Media Convention by thanking the Catholic press for their coverage. #cmc12
  20. Ok folks, we're now live tweeting Dr Carolyn Woo's lunchtime address at the Catholic Media Conference #CMC12

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