Church World Service (CWS) is an organization that impacts our world. CWS has been working since 1946 to help eradicate hunger and poverty.
Our CWS Fort Collins office opened in early summer 2024, working with people who are refugees, humanitarian parolees, special immigrant visa holders, and other newcomers displaced from places of conflict, violence, persecution, or human rights violations. From places like Ukraine, Afghanistan, Haiti, Cuba, Syria, Ethiopia, many have come directly from overseas to join family members or future neighbors across Colorado.
As Coloradoans, many of us new arrivals ourselves, we are glad to welcome our resilient new neighbors into the fabric of our communities and offer a safe place to call home. Thank you for joining us in that mission!
CWS' mission is to transform communities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement, and disaster.
Our vision is a world where everyone has food, voice, and a safe place to call home.
Church World Service was born in the wake of the devastation of World War II. Seventeen Christian denominations came together “to do in partnership what none of us could hope to do as well alone.”
In our early days, the CWS family mobilized more than 11 million pounds of food, clothing and medical supplies for war-torn Europe and Asia. In the United States, we began to welcome refugees who were looking to start new lives in safety, resettling more than 100,000 refugees in our first 10 years.
Over the decades, the specifics of our programs have shifted and evolved. The CWS family has grown. And our foundation of collaboration and welcome has remained unshakable. We proudly serve as the toolbox that our neighbors near and far use to build healthy, dignified and safe lives.
Learn more at: https://cwsglobal.org/about/history/
Organization name
Church World Service Inc
other names
CWS Fort Collins
1948
Tax id (EIN)
13-4080201
Category
Human Services
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
123 N. College, #120CO, US
Fort Collins, CO, US
Denver, CO, US
Colorado Springs, CO, US
Loveland, CO, US