Community service sites include clinics, hospitals, schools, youth centers, service centers and homes for the physically and developmentally disabled, retirement facilities, therapeutic riding and youth sports programs, nursing home, and homes for unwed mothers. By the end of any semester, Brebeuf Jesuit students will have give more than 900 hours of service to the community.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Poverty and Solidarity program seeks enhance student learning about poverty through:

•  Development of an interdisciplinary course and summer internship sequence for students seeking a deeper understanding of poverty
•  Creation of interdisciplinary and discipline-based courses that will embed the study of poverty throughout the curriculum
•  Establishment of a public lecture series to educate both the university and Greater Cleveland communities on poverty

The Program also hosts a "Poverty and Solidarity Faculty Learning Community" to engage faculty from throughout various disciplines in dialogue and focused study of  local, national, and global poverty leading to the development of courses on poverty or modification of existing courses to include a component on poverty.  

The Social Justice Ministry responds in prayer and reflection, direct service, education, advocacy, and donations to the needs of the parish, to the social needs in the diverse urban diocese and community who are our neighbors, and beyond these borders to a sister parish and national and international Jesuit social services. When program priorities are being set and choices made about resource allocation, the Ministry actively advocates for preferential treatment for the poor and marginalized in our community in light of the Gospel, Catholic Social Teaching and the priorities of the Jesuit Conference.

ANGEL TREE ministry arranges for and delivers Christmas gifts for children whose parents are in prison.
Contact: Dan & Brandi D’Orazio, dgdorazio@gmail.com

IGNATIAN HELPERS provide services for those who are recovering from surgery or otherwise incapacitated, including grocery shopping, meals and transportation to physical therapy.
Contact: Norma Hyder, shawgas29@verizon.net

IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY PROJECT offers overnight retreats and days of recollection for homeless men and women who are in transition.
Contact: Colleen Moore, cmoore@mdmercy.com and Marilyn Dunphy, mdunphy1974@gmail.com.

JESSE TREE ministry provides warm gloves, hats, sweaters, scarves and other essentials which are given to homeless men and women at Christmastime.
Contact: Norma Hyder, shawgas29@verizon.net

JUSTICE & PEACE: The Justice & Peace Committee is chiefly engaged in education and advocacy. It educates parishioners by circulating materials or organizing events that clarify and advocate the Church's social teaching on economic and political issues that impact peoples and cultures throughout the world. It also identifies particular programs or organizations working for domestic or international peace and justice in which St. Ignatius may actively participate. The Committee organizes monthly sales of Fair Trade coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, nuts, dried fruit, and olive oil, as well as periodic collections of groceries for the Catholic Worker Viva House.
Contact: Sharon Davis, nelly6362@aol.com

LOAVES & FISHES prepares and delivers meals and warm clothing to the poor and homeless in downtown Baltimore on Saturday and Sunday evenings from November to April.
Contact: Beth Leonard, bl7010@hotmail.com

MEALS FOR MY SISTER'S PLACE provides and serves lunch twice each month for homeless women and children who participate in programs at My Sister's Place.
Contact: Sue Cashman, susancashman@comcast.net

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a non-profit organization assisting the poor, lonely and forgotten to bridge the spiritual, emotional and financial gaps in their lives. St Xavier and Cathedral Conference activities are confined to those neighbors in Over-the Rhine, West End and Downtown area. Volunteers visit, access and evaluate the situation of the individuals who have requested a need prior to providing assistance. Contact the church office if you would like to volunteer.

The St Lawrence O’Toole Conference of the St Vincent de Paul Society is one of the oldest conferences in the United States.  Our conference has been active since it was formed in 1865.
We are a group of parishioners joined by the common goal of making life better for those among us in need.  We share a desire to ease the pain of poverty, loneliness, hunger, homelessness, and financial desperation.

An extra-curricular club, STRAP administers a school food bank, Easter baskets, holiday parties for shelter children and neighborhood cleanups.  The club also organizes volunteers to tutor and serve at healthcare facilities and agencies servicing the physically and mentally challenged.

The Bertram M. Beck Institute on Religion and Poverty is an ecumenical institute that partners with New York City interfaith religious and lay leaders who are moved to alleviate poverty in our affluent society.  It is committed to preparing leaders who promote social justice and serve the poor.  Founded in 1999 and based at Fordham University's Graduate School of Social Service, the Beck Institute promotes interdisciplinary collaboration across University departments and with the broader community.