Forty-one local groups received grants from Catholic Relief Services 2010 Operation Rice Bowl. Each grant totaled $1,164.78 and was awarded through the archdiocese’s Office for Peace and Justice and its Catholic Relief Services office. Operation Rice Bowl is the official Lenten program of Catholic Relief Services. Much of the money collected through the program helps fund development projects designed to increase food security in communities in over 40 countries around the world. Each dioceses keeps 25 percent of their annual collection and distributes that money locally to support hunger programs. For more about Operation Rice Bowl visit orb.crs.org. The 2010 awardees are: St. Agatha Parish Food Pantry St. Anthony Hospital’s School Wellness Program St. Bernadette Parish St. Vincent de Paul Society Calumet City Resource Center Casa Esperanza Project’s Good Earth Market St. Christopher Parish St. Vincent de Paul Society St. Clare of Montefalco Parish St. Vincent de Paul Society Community Social Services Corpus Christi Parish Soup Kitchen\ St. Felicitas-St. Ailbe Knights of Peter Claver Ladies Auxiliary Court 181 Food Pantry St. Florian Parish St. Vincent de Paul Society Franciscan Outreach Fraternite Notre Dame Good News Partners Holy Cross/Immaculate Heart of Mary Food Pantry and Basic Needs Center Community Social Services (Holy Family Parish, Waukegan) Holy Name of Mary Oblate Sisters of Providence Diner Hunger Resource Network St. Ignatius Parish Ignatian Services Immaculate Conception Parish Food Pantry Irving Park Food Pantry St. Ita Parish Food Pantry St. Joseph Parish, Round Lake Korean Martyr’s St. Vincent dePaul Society St. Leonard Parish Food Pantry St. Martha Parish Human Concerns Commission Our Lady Gate of Heaven Parish Food Pantry Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica Parish Dignity Breakfast St. Paul Parish Food Pantry, Chicago Heights St. Philip Neri/Our Lady of Peace Parishes Food Pantry, South Shore St. Philomena Parish St. Vincent de Paul Society St. Rosalie Parish St. Vincent de Paul Society San Jose Obero Mission St. Sylvester Parish Food Pantry, Logan Square, Chicago Southwest Chicago PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter) St. Thaddeus Parish St. Vincent de Paul Society Food Pantry St. Viator Parish St. Victor Parish Community Meal St. Walter Parish St. Vincent de Paul Society West Suburban PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter) Zacchaeus House