Christmas Basket Project
Participate in this short-term volunteer opportunity in December. Assist with food and gift gathering, sorting, bagging, delivering to homebound, and helping give out baskets the day folks pick them up. Hours will be days, evenings, or weekends. Sign-up opportunities will be available in November and December.

Food Pantry Ministry
Work in our emergency assistance food pantry through various opportunities. Daytime hours, Monday through Friday. Volunteers will be contacted as needed.
Pantry Worker - fill orders on a weekly/monthly basis (1-2 hours), help keep pantry clean and orderly, sort food donations.
Homebound Food Delivery - take food orders to clients who are unable to pick them up.
Pantry Stocking Crew - assist in monthly pick-ups, deliveries, and/or shopping trips to keep our pantry stocked.

Holy Family Catholic Worker House
Prepare and serve a meal at Holy Family Catholic Worker House. A crew of SFX parishioners volunteers together the 1st Thursday of every month from 4:00 to 7:30 p.m. The crew helps prepare and serve a meal for 150—200 individuals.

Sister Parish Committee
Responsible for facilitating St. Francis Xavier's commitment to the Sister Parish Covenant with St. Martin de Porres in Belize City, Belize. Initiate and/or coordinate activities within our parish that will foster faith sharing, community building, and cultural understanding with our sister parish.

St. Francis Xavier—Visitation Social Concerns Committee
Working together to increase our commitment to Catholic social teachings. This committee plans yearly activities, which includes the annual Hunger Banquet, JustFaith, Habitat for Humanity, Christmas in October, and other events dedicated to the Church's social teachings. This is a one-year commitment, starting in August, with monthly meetings.

St. James Soup Kitchen
Serve a meal at St. James Place. A crew of SFX parishioners volunteers together the 4th Tuesday of every month from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m. Duties include set-up, serving of food, and clean-up.

Sustainability Committee
Responsible for guiding the parish to live in harmony with God's creation as inspired by Scripture and Church teaching. Provide educational opportunities to the parish through films, discussion groups, seminars and other activities that illuminate ways to lighten our footprint on the planet. Provide concrete examples and opportunities for action to reduce our impact on Earth as individuals and as a parish.

Each Advent, Gesu "plants" a Christmas tree near the east altars and invites parishioners to trim this Advent Mitten Tree. The first Sunday of Advent marks the start of our annual-sharing project for the home with gifts of warmth: new mittens, caps, scarves and gloves for homeless children and adults of several shelters for Milwaukee’s homeless and victims of domestic violence. Since 2002, we have also planted a Haiti Children’s Tree, which parishioners decorate with bars of soap, toothpaste and brushes, underwear, shoes and socks, and hair clips and ribbons for the children of St. Jude, our twin parish in Haiti.

St. Rita Parish collects and delivers groceries to the pantry on the fourth weekend of each month.

Parish volunteers partner with interfaith congregations to construct quality affordable housing with lower-income new homeowners who contribute 500 “sweat equity” hours while learning homeowner/repair skills.

Parish volunteers assist with Spiritual Exercises retreats as retreat companions for persons in homelessness seeking change and growth to overcome homelessness.

Parish volunteers provide lunch monthly to assist persons in homelessness with histories of emotional and/or mental challenges participating in Tender Mercies permanent housing and supportive services.

Parish volunteers assist as a support congregation for families in homeless by providing meals, tutoring, children’s and family activities for, and overnight hospitality at nearby Walnut Hills Baptist Church, while families receive housing and job search support from IHN family support staff.

Parish volunteers provide lunch monthly to assist persons in homelessness with histories of emotional and/or mental challenges participating in Tender Mercies permanent housing and supportive services.

Since 1997, Gesu has ministered to Milwaukee area homeless women and children, in order to alleviate the suffering of being homeless. Gesu's Cathedral Center Ministers are volunteers, coordinated by a parishioner, who are scheduled to serve in teams, 6:30-9:00 p.m., for two weeks every other month. Shelter ministers provide hospitality, conversation and compassion.
 

Catholic Parish Charities Outreach, CPO is a food pantry and supplier of children's clothes.
We provide emergency food assistance and, when possible, small children's clothing and baby items, such as formula and diapers.

The Center for Community Service and Justice specializes in developing and offering service programs which are also educational.organizes and implements social justice and service programs on campus. Offerings include adult literacy courses, youth tutoring, AIDS work, Beans and Bread, Garden Harvest, health care and hospital programs, housing/homeless/food programs, immersion experiences, care for senior citizens, and summer service opportunities.

The Centro Altagracia is dedicated to faith in action; promoting social justice through active collaboration with parishes, community organizations, and individuals and through initiatives that serve the needs of the community as those needs have been identified by the Hispanic community of northern Manhattan. We seek to awaken awareness within individuals of how their Catholic, Christian faith calls them to be aware of the issues impacting their community and to be engaged in action to address these issues. Among the Centro's programs are: Social/Pastoral Ministry Teams that serve as coordinators and catalysts for social awareness and action within parishes; H.E.L.P. (Hispanic Evangelization Leadership Program) that trains young adults for leadership roles within their parishes; and G.R.A.C.E. (Gaining Respect and Awareness through Community Education) which addresses the issue of domestic violence. The Centro also maintains a library of books and DVDs for community use.

The Dominican Outreach Center or Centro Altagracia de Fe y Justicia (Altagracia Center for Faith and Justice) was formed by the New York Province of the Society of Jesus in response to the unmet needs of the Dominican community of the Washington Heights area. In a period of slightly more than one year the Centro Altagracia has been able to make incredible strides in establishing itself in the community through its work with the ten parishes of the North Manhattan vicariate, various community organizations, and elected officials.
 

This program conducts community based construction and repair projects in Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia.

The St. Ignatius Community Assistance Ministry helps families with rental, utility, and furniture assistance. We
have a furniture locker on site. Donations are appreciated (and strong bodies to pick up and deliver the furniture). We provide food baskets and hygiene items at Christmas and Easter for 250 families through our Feed-A-Family Program. We also provide snack bags for the hungry (an individual can receive two per week). We need you! Many hands make light work!

The CDF is a 5,000,000 fund for investment in affordable housing and other community development efforts, within the province and internationally. The province typically invests its funds in communities through local credit unions, community-based revolving loan funds, or local community development corporations focused on urban reinvestment in affordable housing. job-creation for low-income people, etc.

Christmas Giving Program – a team identifies local families in crisis and their needs, then provides our parish family with an opportunity to provide food and Christmas presents for these families.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Instructor – teach English as a second language. Most teachers have only 1-3 students and meet weekly on the St. Therese campus for about 1 hour. Schedules are matched between students and teachers. All supplies and teaching materials are provided.
Food Pantry Ministry – this group provides emergency food to parishioners and community members struggling in these difficult economic times
Mooresville Christian Mission – coordinates teams of volunteers to help with office or clerical works or in the store or the pantry on a regular basis; other tasks may be assigned as needed; also collect non-perishable foods and coats for MCM
Mooresville Soup Kitchen – coordinates teams of volunteers from St. Therese to serve hot meals to anyone in need and provide encouragement and fellowship
Peru Ministry – opportunities include sponsoring children or the elderly, writing letters, or making a donation to Father Alex’s mission in Alto Cayma, Peru.
Pregnancy Center/Walk for Life – raises money for the Mooresville Pregnancy Center with an annual Baby Bottle Boomerang fund drive; participates in the Mooresville Pregnancy Center annual Walk for Life
Prison Ministry – minister to those in prison who have been punished under man’s laws. We offer hope spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically to those who are in prison.
Relay for Life – St. Therese is represented with a team who participates in The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. It is a fun-filled overnight event designed to celebrate cancer survivorship.
Respect Life Committee – promote that all life is sacred from conception to natural death. Participate in annual Life Chain, March for Life, and other Pro-Life events.

Since 2007, Project Homeless Connect is a one-day event held at Creighton that serves as a "one-stop shop", connecting homeless individuals to needed services, including: housing, healthcare, legal resources, Social Security, food-stamp benefits, and employment. Creighton University President Fr. John Schlegel who has served as chair and host of the event noted in 2010: 330 individuals were provided housing information, 80 moved into housing, more than 100 have received new dentures, and 540 received some form of health care-related service and of those 80 percent receiving follow-up treatment.

The Detroit Collaborative Design Center is a center for applied research in architectural design and neighborhood development. The Center is committed to design as a means for uplifting and dignifying the human person. Located in the School of Architecture, the Design Center is a unique, multi-disciplinary, non-profit organization which is dedicated to renewing the city by revitalizing its neighborhoods. The Design Center seeks to promote collaboration among community organizations, local governments and private developers to confront the social, economic and political realities which have for years contributed to the physical deterioration of urban Detroit.The Design Center works with students, local design professionals and community-based development organizations to enhance local leadership capacity and to promote quality design. Utilizing broad-based community participation in conjunction with advanced design technologies, the Design Center produces excellent projects that respond to local concerns. The center’s work has won numerous awards for design excellence and has been published in several publications.

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

St. Benedict the Moor Parish sponsors a chapter of the St. Vincent de Paul society which runs a food pantry at the parish as well as other services to homeless and low income people.

The social ministries are active year-round and open to all parishioners to join in making the social mission of the church the essential and central mission of the parish.  Examples of ministries include: parish twinning with St Jude's parish in Haiti, ongoing social justice eduation programs, and fair trade coffee sales.

Gesu Social Concerns Committee oversees a number of programs to the homeless including a regular Saturday meal program, Sunday breakfast bags. Gesu parishioners also partner with downtown congregations offering shelter and day programs to the homeless individuals and families and Gesu parishioners were instrumental in the establishment of a Milwaukee Housing Trust Fund