Ministries: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Results
Arrupe Program in Social Ethics for Business (Washington, DC)
The mission of the Arrupe Program is to promote the pursuit of truly human values by business managers and executives and the people who run them. The program offers an eight-week seminar entitled Faith and Values at Work, to help the participants develop a faith-centered framework for thinking about themselves, the purpose of business, and the vocation of organizational leadership. The Arrupe Program has also developed a one-day workshop centered around these same themes for groups of Jesuit high school and university alumni, and a values-based course, The Foundations Seminar, for use with business management teams.
Best Buddies (Washington, DC)
Youth tutoring/mentoring
Catholicism and Civic Renewal (Washington, DC)
The Catholicism and Civic Renewal project, under the direction of John Farina, asks what role Catholicism can play in the process of American civic renewal. How do Catholics bring their theological and spiritual resources into the social and political sphere, in a way that can strengthen our common life as a nation? The project develops its answer by combining historical, constitutional, and political analysis with systematic theological reflection. A series of seminars, conferences, discussion groups, articles, and books will explore how religious faith is shaping current efforts to renew society.
Center for Technical Cooperation (Washington, DC)
train residents in strategic planning, data collection, analysis and management and to establish a community information management unit.
Center for Urban Research and Teaching (Washington, DC)
The Writing Program and the Center for Urban Research and Teaching jointly sponsor symposia focusing on Writing for and with the Community. These symposia address questions and possibilities that concern the faculty's intellectual work (both scholarly and pedagogical). Joined by community leaders active in developing university-community partnerships, the faculty participants explore ways of developing community-based research projects and ways of integrating community service within the academic work of their courses. There are follow-up meetings during the academic year to consider further scholarly and/or pedagogical projects developed during the symposia. Symposia topics include:
Corporate Accountability Project (Washington, DC)
The Corporate Accountability Project analyzes the impacts of business behavior on the ability of poor people to meet their basic needs - sustainable livelihoods, housing, food, and access to education, healthcare and credit.
DC schools project (Washington, USA)
Welcome to the D.C. Schools Project at Georgetown University's Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service (CSJ)! We are a literacy organization that has been serving Washington, D.C.'s low-income immigrant community since 1984. Each year, about 175 Georgetown students serve 150 K-12 students and more than 100 adult English as a Second Language (ESL) students in D.C. public schools, community-based organizations and homes of immigrant families.
Domestic Violence Task Force (Washington, DC)
To tackle this social justice issue, the DV task force believes that a response from our faith-based communities is appropriate and necessary. Such a response involves developing a coalition of faith communities to work on ways to address DV.
Education for Justice (Washington, DC)
The Education for Justice Project promotes outreach and education throughout the U.S. on Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and social justice issues. The Project provides resource materials, presentations, training and consultations to Catholic high schools and colleges, to diocesan offices and groups, to parishes, small faith communities, and to a variety of networks and organizations.
Emmitsburg Project (Washington, DC)
4 day service trip to Appalachia
Isaiah (Washington, DC)
A regional ecumenical faith-based community organization. Isaiah's goals are to strengthen congregations, develop stronger leaders through training, and address issues of justice in our community, both locally and regionally.
Local Entrepreneur Advancement Program (LEAP) (Washington, DC)
to provide training, financial, and technical support for recipient neighborhood entrepreneurs.
McKenna Center (Washington, DC)
provides meals, fellowship and outreach every day of the week to homeless and addicted.
Preaching the Just Word (Washington, DC)
Preaching the Just Word is a national program sponsored by the Woodstock Theological Center to assist priests and other ministers of the gospel to be more effective in preaching biblical and social justice. Conceived by Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., the project is directed by Father Raymond B. Kemp.
Social Justice Committee (Washington, DC)
Coordinates system of volunteers and manages donations to local social service and advocacy organizations.
Social Justice Course (Washington, DC)
Service Trips to Domincan Republic and Guatemala.
Sursum Corda Family Literacy Group (Washington, DC)
For over 30 years, Georgetown students have provided tutoring for children in the Sursum Corda housing community in Northwest Washington, D.C. More than 40 Georgetown students tutor at Sursum Corda four nights a week.
The Global Women's Project (Washington, DC)
The Global Women's Project approaches questions of women's human rights and equity through a long tradition of research, theological reflection, advocacy, outreach, popular education and coalition building.
