Creating on the Margins
A contest toolkit for local adaptation and implementation!
The Creating on the Margins contest toolkit provides a framework and sample materials for dioceses, parishes, and schools to adapt and implement locally.
By implementing a local contest, you can help middle school and high school-age youth to learn about poverty in the U.S. and reflect on its causes in light of their faith and the Church’s work to address it. Youth then create artwork in any medium (painting, song, video, PowerPoint, short story, poetry, drama, or photography) in order to share what they have learned with others.
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) Creating on the Margins contest is a tool to engage young students in grades 7-12 by encouraging them to learn about poverty in the U.S., its root causes, and faith-inspired efforts to address poverty, especially through CCHD, the domestic anti-poverty program of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Since 1970, CCHD has worked to: (1) encourage empowerment and participation of poor and low-income persons to address the causes of poverty in the U.S., and (2) educate and involve U.S. Catholics in this effort.
The Creating on the Margins contest toolkit provides a framework and sample materials for dioceses, parishes, and schools to adapt and implement locally. By implementing a local contest, you can help middle school and high school-age youth to learn about poverty in the U.S. and reflect on its causes in light of their faith and the Church’s work to address it. Youth then create artwork in any medium (painting, song, video, PowerPoint, short story, poetry, drama, or photography), becoming educators themselves as they use their creativity to communicate what they have learned to others in their community.
The sample materials provided can be adapted locally without permission for non-profit, educational purposes.
Educational Resources
Poverty USA
The Two Feet of Love in Action
Note: 2021-22 was the final year that Creating on the Margins was implemented as a national contest. View the gallery of previous contest winners.