Thank You for Helping Us Share the Spirit!

January 4, 2023

This year's Share the Spirit program was a tremendous success, and we're grateful to our community for helping families in need this holiday season. 

Whether it was helping a family through the application process, sponsoring a family in need of gifts, volunteering during the gift drop-off and pick-up days, shopping for gifts and more—thank you!


This year, 287 families – that’s 1,291 family members – were sponsored and 236 sponsors helped make sure they had a wonderful holiday experience. Share the Spirit also raised an additional $12,580 to provide memorable holidays for our friends and neighbors in Central Minnesota. Pictured are sponsors, staff and volunteers from the Share the Spirit gift drop-off day at the St. Cloud Armory, all working together to make the holidays a little brighter this year. Thank you again to everyone who helped us share the spirit this holiday season!

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Cloud is a nonprofit organization that works to build communities, promote family life, and enhance human dignity by providing quality services to meet the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals and families of all faiths and beliefs.


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