Ministries: Direct Service, Catholic Social Teaching and Social Action
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Arrupe Club (Aurora, CO)
The Arrupe Club was established over 15 years ago with the purpose of having students serve at the Catholic Worker Soup Kitchen. Several years ago the club started to cook meals at the Ronald McDonald house on Sunday evenings. It now serves at the Catholic Worker Soup Kitchen twice a month and Ronald McDonald House twice a month during the school year.
Best Buddies (North Bethesda, MD)
Best Buddies is an organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment.
Georgetown Prep's current chapter of Best Buddies has been active since the fall of 2005.
Big Brothers (New York, NY)
Mentor program
Big Buddies and Junior Big Brothers (Cincinnati, OH)
Students are paired with disadvantaged, fatherless boys from area boys/girls clubs and participate in various recreational activities, usually on Saturday afternoons. Carpools are arranged.
Junior Big Brothers is open only to juniors and seniors who have access to a car. Students are paired with boys ages 5-10 and participate in various recreational activities, usually on Saturday afternoons.
Campus Ministry's Community Action Program (New Orleans, LA)
Our Mission
Composed of and directed by student volunteers, the Loyola University Community Action Program (LUCAP) is a campus organization having three primary goals, the first being to provide and direct volunteers in service-oriented activity within the community and the university, the second being to inform and promote involvement in the area of social justice, and the third being to aid in the volunteers' social and spiritual growth through their involvement in service and care-giving activities.
Who We Are
LUCAP offers over a dozen great ways to become actively involved in advocacy and service projects which help the Loyola, New Orleans, and Global communities. This active community is student-directed, and LUCAP volunteers work with a variety of issues in different ways, including feeding the homeless, tutoring learners of all ages, spending time with the elderly, attending protests, rebuilding the Gulf Coast, and sponsoring speakers and events for social justice. Participation in our programs provides a chance to make a real difference while attending Loyola.
Center for Service and Social Action (University Heights, OH)
The Center for Service and Social Action believes that, through service, we can deepen our understanding of and be a conduit for positive change within our local, national, and international community.
The Center for Service and Social Action seeks to develop service opportunities which build relationships, enhance learning, encourage active citizenship, and support the John Carroll University mission to "inspire individuals to excel in learning, leadership, and service in the region and in the world." We offer a variety of programs to meet the needs of our community partners and the interests of our service participants, including Service Learning, Voluntary Service, Service Projects and Events, and service-based Immersion Experiences.
Circle of Friends (Chicago, IL)
We help mentally handicapped / developmentally challenged young adults to lead meaningful and happy lives with dignity and respect. In association with the Ray Graham Training Center, our members contribute as friends to such events as sporting games, dances, holiday parties, a clothing drive, a concert, etc. The members benefit from ongoing education and training in the areas of mental and physical disabilities. The group is about social inclusion and making real friends.
Community Outreach Clubs (San Francisco, CA)
- Amnesty International
- Music For Others
- Social Justice
- Frosh/Soph Social Justice
- Environmental Club
- Pro-Life Club
- United Students Against Sweatshops
- S.M.A.S.H.
Community Service Program (Houston, TX)
Each senior at Strake Jesuit is required to complete 100 hours of community service in order to graduate. Senior projects have taken students to soup kitchens, Native-American missions, summer camps for special-needs children, and many places locally, nationally and abroad. Senior Service Project must involve service to the poor.
Community Tutoring Alliance (Chicago, IL)
The Community Tutoring Alliance tutors students from neighboring elementary schools. Tutors and tustees work one-on-one throughout the year on all areas of the grammar school study. A very special relationship often develops between the pair of students as the year progresses. Social activities such as parties near holidays and field trips are planned throughout the year. Participation in CTA can be a very rewarding experience.
CRC Saturdays Program (Cincinnati, OH)
The CRC Saturday Programs offers our students a new opportunity to be with adults and children with cognitive and physical disabilities. Cincinnati Recreation Commission’s Therapeutic Division offers three activities for our students to volunteer; these include: the Adaptive Bowling program at Brentwood Bowl, the BlazeSports Wheelchair Football program at Pleasant Ridge Community Center, and the Youth Empowerment Social (YES) at College Hill Community Center. Each program mentioned above takes place on Saturdays throughout the month. Student groups rotate for a once to twice a month experience.
Dorothy Day Center for Service and Justice (Bronx, NY)
The Center for Service and Justice (CSJ) offers a variety of opportunities for students to learn from, engage in and reflect on service and social justice.
Volunteer Opportunities- CSJ works with community partners near the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses to place students in a variety of service environments:
Volunteer Opportunities -Rose Hill
Volunteer Opportunities - Lincoln Center
Service Learning- CSJ helps students connect academics to volunteers experiences in the community through the Service Learning Program.
Service Learning Program
Internship Opportunities- Students can obtain paid and unpaid internship opportunities through CSJ, working in a variety of social service environments.
Internship Opportunities
Post-Graduate Vocational Discernment- CSJ helps connect students to long-term volunteer opportunities after graduation, as well as nonprofit careers in the New York area.
Post Graduate Opportunities
Integrated Service-learning Community- CSJ has developed an Integrated Serivce-Learning Community located in the Belmont neighborhood in the Bronx where students committ to ongoing volunteering during the year and participate in weekly reflection and community building activities.
Integrated Service-Learning Community
Fair Trade Club (Cincinnati, OH)
focuses on education and action to promote trade practices that support human dignity, economic justice and international solidarity. Here on campus the club works to encourage the use of fair trade coffee and other products.
Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education (Santa Clara, CA)
The Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education is dedicated to preserve and extend the Catholic identity and Jesuit mission of Santa Clara University. Competence, conscience, and compassion these critical qualities are built into the foundations of a Santa Clara University education. The Center's work provides students, faculty and staff with opportunities to examine Jesuit and Catholic ideals, promote social justice through community-based learning, and encourage solidarity through immersion.
Ignatian Lay Volunteer Corps (Baltimore, MD)
Volunteers age 50 and older engage in social service ministry with the poor 20 hours per week.
Ignatian Social Justice (St. Ignatius Loyola Church NYC) (New York, USA)
The Ignatian Social Justice is a group at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola made up of parishioners committed to raising awareness of current Catholic social teaching and addressing timely social justice issues. The volunteer group embraces the responsibility not only to act, but also to help inform parishioners and engage them in constructive change to promote peace and social justice
Immersion Program(El Salvador) (San Jose, CA)
Bellarmine currently supports a number of different Immersion experiences for students and faculty members. In June of each year, Bellarmine sends a delegation of approximately 10 students and 4 faculty members to El Salvador to spend two weeks with the people there, learning about their lives, and the important connection that the Jesuits have with El Salvador
Leadership Development Institute (Detroit, MI)
The Institute for Leadership and Service is dedicated to helping continue the work of Catherine McAuley and Ignatius of Loyola in compassionate service to the poor and marginalized by seeing, feeling, helping and fostering lasting change. This is accomplished through service-learning, leadership for social change and community service.
Office of Peace and Justice (Phoenix, AZ)
The Office of Faith and Justice works to encourage and empower the Brophy community to achieve this "relationship with Christ" both through the transforming power of prayer as well as by becoming involved in service to those in need on school-wide, local, and global levels.
Parish Social Ministry (Spokane, WA)
Parish Social Ministry promotes the social mission of the parish.
Its emphasis is two-fold:
1) education and formation of the parish community and
2) organization of parishioners into four complementary ministries:
charity and direct service
legislative advocacy
global solidarity
community organizing/empowerment.
