Ways to Donate

How to Make a Donation

Through PayPal:

Support CCA with a single donation through PayPal. Your contribution helps us continue our mission, and every donation makes a difference. It’s quick, easy, and secure.

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By Check:

Mail to: Sr. Barbara Losh, OCD

CCA Treasurer
Carmel of the Holy Family
2541 Arlington Rd
Cleveland Heights OH 44118

The CCA is its own 501c3. It was founded in 1970 in accordance with the encouragement of the Catholic Church for its contemplative communities to form associations/federations and to undertake renewal in accordance the the teachings of Vatican II. Currently there are 11 Discalced communities which are members: Baltimore, MD, Barrington, RI, Beacon, NY, Cleveland Heights, OH, Concord, NH, Danville, PA, Eldridge, IA, Latrobe, PA, Oldenburg, IN, Reno NV and Roxbury MA.

Other Donation Resources

Stock or Securities: For instructions to transfer securities, please contact Sr. Barbara Losh, OCD, CCA Treasurer at barb.carmel@gmail.com.

Planned Giving and Legacy Donation:

Remembering CCA in your estate planning is a wonderful way to leave a legacy of immeasurable value. Click here for additional information.

Gift to the CCA through your IRA: Click here

The Charitable IRA Rollover Law has been made permanent. If you have an IRA and have reached the age of 72, you must take a required minimum distribution (RMD) from your IRA on an annual basis. You can authorize a direct gift from your IRA to the CCA (up to $100,000). This will reduce your ordinary income. Contact your IRA administrator to do this. Contact the CCA treasurer for information regarding where the administrator should send the funds.

This is not legal or tax advice. Please contact your own accountant, lawyer, or financial advisor as to your individual situation.

CCA Mission

Carmelite Communities Associated (CCA) is a nationwide association of communities of Discalced Carmelite nuns formed to support one another in the deepening of the Teresian contemplative life:

We live the prophetic voice of the Carmelite charism in our witness of faith and hope in the Triune God.
We nurture relationships among our member communities and with the Carmelite family here and abroad. We collaborate to create mutual respect and practical support.
We recognize and honor our differences while working to strengthen our unity in diversity.

CCA 2023 – 2025 Goals

Goal 1: We have fostered a broader acceptance of unity in diversity and the mutuality of the Carmelite family, especially by continuing collaboration, friendship, and communion among associations/federations at home and abroad. We have reached out, and collaborated with, other religious organizations to explore life-giving relationships in ways that are mutually beneficial.

Goal 2: We have continued to work at achieving a representative voice in matters affecting our lives, the Teresian charism, and the Order.

Goal 3: We have developed and empowered our members to be future leaders of and/or contributors to CCA.

Goal 4: We have continued to provide active, mutual support to the identified needs of our communities. Coming from a way of life that emphasizes autonomy, we now affirm the desire to continue to create a culture of sisterhood.

Goal 5: Each CCA community has adopted the protocol/practice of documentation in each of the areas as recommended by the task force and will have such in place within the next two years along with a process to keep current.

Goal 6: We have explored and proposed options for the future.