Catalog of Ministries
Our catalog is continually growing. It is provided here to help inform and inspire you to become engaged in philanthropy. Our hope is that you will get involved. The rewards will be great.
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Nativity of Mary School
Biography
Nativity of Mary School is rooted in faith and committed to serving God, children, families, and communities by growing in knowledge and serving others.
Nazareth Academy
Biography
Nazareth Academy is an all-girls independent college preparatory high school in the Catholic tradition. Nazareth Academy seeks to develop its students through the pursuit of academic excellence, a commitment to service and an exploration of faith. Nazareth Academy seeks to return to the community strong, confident, spiritual well educated young women
Nazareth Academy Grade School (Philadelphia, PA)
Biography
Founded in 1941 by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, the Nazareth Academy Grade School is a private co-educational Catholic school for students in grades one through eight. It is their mission to create an environment of love that inspires each student to grow and develop to his or her full potential. In imitation of the Holy Family of Nazareth, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, they strive to spread the Kingdom of God’s love by finding God in everyday life events. They are committed to promoting academic excellence and insuring that each child and family is accepted as part of the Nazareth family.
Nazareth Academy High School (Philadelphia, PA)
Biography
The Nazareth Academy, an independent high school, follows in the footsteps of Jesus, the Master Teacher. Called to be life-givers, its faculty shares skills and abilities to nourish the academic life of the students. Young women are taught that their faith is a living faith — one that helps them lead a life of excellence. Through a personal approach, the faculty strives to affirm and to enhance each student’s sense of self, purpose and fulfillment by providing opportunities for high academic achievement, social engagement, and spiritual commitment. The faculty acts in the belief that the combination of intellectual knowledge and Christian values promotes a truly enlightened education, in the patience of time and in the gentleness of Christ’s Spirit.
Nazareth Nursery
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Neumann College (Aston, PA)
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Neumann College is sponsored by the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. The educational mission of the College is shaped by tradition that inspires the lives of St. Francis and St. Claire of Assisi. Neumann College seeks to provide an education that balances the liberal arts with the professions in an environment that promotes the development of men and women who will embody the Franciscan values of integrity, excellence, love and respect for creation, and service to others. These values are evidenced through relationships that recognize the uniqueness and dignity of others and through a sense of responsibility and stewardship as a citizen of the local and global community.
New Cassel Retirement Center
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New Cassel is a caring residential community committed to providing an array of quality services. We celebrate the innate dignity and enhance the total wellness of the aging person. Our values include: Respect, Compassion, responsiveness and Hospitality. Sponsored by the School Sisters of St. Francis, New Cassel continues the healing mission of Jesus.
New Hampshire Catholic Charities
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Grounded in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, new Hampshire Catholic Charities responds to those in need with programs that heal. comfort and empower.
Nora Cronin Presentation Academy
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Our mission: Nora Cronin Presentation Academy (NCPA) educates low income, young women of the Hudson Valley to become leaders of tomorrow.
Our vision is to break the cycle of poverty through education and mentorship consistent with the mission of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Our values: Nora Cronin Presentation Academy, a Catholic middle school for young women, promotes Gospel values with special emphasis on faith, hope, justice, freedom and human dignity. We call our students to a kinship of care of Earth, to foster peace and give back to their communities.
North Atlantic Tri-Hospital Clinical Education Center (Atlanta, GA)
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The North Atlanta Tri-Hospital C.P.E. Center is an accredited training center for theological students, ordained clergy, members of religious orders, and qualified lay people to learn the skills necessary to provide quality ministry to persons in crisis. The training involves participants serving as chaplains in various sites in the hospitals and in the community. As chaplains, participants provide spiritual care to the ill and dying, the bereaved, the homeless, persons living with AIDS, and others in need. This ministry is both service-oriented as well as educational in nature. This ministry is made possible by the center providing the program structure, supervision, curriculum, and administrative oversight. The purpose of this program is to meet human need for spiritual care in times of crisis and train persons to provide this care in a professional manner.
Nurturing Network
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During the two decades since Mary Cunningham Agee founded the Nurturing Network, over 19,000 College and working women have been nurtured and healed through TNN’s powerful Network of 48,000 dedicated Resource Members. Her goal twenty years ago remains the same today: To provide a positive alternative to abortion to every woman who contacts TNN’s toll-free number or visits its award-winning website. This vital mission has become even more compelling as both scientific research and anecdotal evidence have confirmed what common sense told many of us all along: abortion does not just stop a beating heart; it breaks a mother’s too. Far from being the panacea it was marketed as being when first legalized, we now have over thirty years of irrefutable evidence documenting how much more harmful this procedure is to women than ever expected. It is as much for those women wounded by this experience as those whom TNN has been able to help that caring individuals are invited to invest in TNN’s future. TNN was founded to ensure that the “choice for life” is truly available to every woman faced with the crisis of an unplanned pregnancy. By making TNN’s toll free number (1-800-TNN-4MOM) and Web site (www.nurturingnetwork.org) easily accessible and free of charge to those whose own support networks have let them down, TNN has become a liberating and life-affirming reality for literally thousands of mothers and children. TNN’s goal is to empower each pregnant woman to nurture her child’s lifeÃ?¢??without compromising her own. TNN has managed over the years to bring both sides in America’s cultural war to a constructive common ground in which collaboration through compassionate service is both possible and effective. As the founder wrote in TNN’s first Member brochure, “Those who support choice, can hardly reject creating another choice; those who support life, can hardly reject an alternative made real.”
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Oakcrest School
OLV Charities
Biography
OLV Charities is a 501c3 organization that operates as the philanthropy and support services division of the Our Lady of Victory (OLV) organizations in Lackawanna, New York. OLV was established over 130 years ago by Father Nelson Baker (who is currently named Venerable and on the path to Sainthood), a Roman Catholic priest who built the Our Lady of Victory National Shrine & Basilica in the early 1920’s and developed a “City of Charity,” which today consists of one of Western New York’s most comprehensive charitable agencies for children and families in OLV Human Services. The OLV Basilica is a national treasure and international destination, with over 40,000 visitors passing through its doors annually. OLV Human Services cares for more than 4,500 children, teens, the developmentally disabled and families each year through a variety of programs, including: foster care and emergency foster care, residential treatment programs for youth; special education schools; community-based housing for the developmentally disabled; counseling and preventive services; and a community-based dental center serving individuals with disabilities who require adaptive dental care.
Opening Doors (Dubuque, IA)
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Opening Doors offers hospitality to women, alone or with children, who are in need of emergency transitional housing and related support services. In collaboration with existing community resources and services, the vision or Opening Doors is to offer a variety of opportunities for women to affirm their dignity and to achieve their potential for independent living in an environment that will benefit the neighborhood. Services such as job training, homemaking, financial planning, and parenting skills are offered. While the women in the program, they are expected to set developmental goals for themselves and work with staff to achieve them. Staff is available 24 hours per day. No rent is charged and, depending on the situation, residents could stay one night or up to 6 months.
Our Lady of Grace Catholic High School
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Our Lady of Grace High School is a private, Catholic, co-educational college preparatory school, serving students and their families by providing a Scholastic Liberal Arts education in service to the Catholic Church. Students are expected to achieve academically beyond their expectations, to grow spiritually through study, worship, and service and to become leaders and role-models within their secular and church communities by their example and attitudes exemplified in their daily lives. To achieve (academically), To grow (spiritually), To become (a leader).
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School (Overbrook Farms, PA)
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The purpose of Our Lady of Lourdes School is to educate the whole child spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, and physically. Our aim is to integrate Catholic Christian values with elementary school curriculum so as to foster full participation of our school community into the life and mission of the parish and universal Church. We participate in this mission by worshipping God, creating and nurturing our Christian community, growing in faith and holiness, and serving those in need especially the poor. We prepare students to succeed in a culturally diverse society respecting the dignity of others. We equip students with the life skills necessary to seek out opportunities and embrace the future. We recognize the role of parents as primary educators.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help School
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We are dedicated to the creation of a Christian environment of care, love and encouragement. The pursuit of academic excellence and the joy of learning. We believe in the importance of personal self-esteem and community spirit and the principles of mutual self-respect and understanding among all people. The need for global awareness based on the Gospel values of Peace, Justice and Service. We take pride in the multi-ethnic student population of our school which reflects the great cultural diversity, and richness of our parish and surrounding community.
Our Lady’s Inn Maternity Homes
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Our Lady’s Inn provides homeless pregnant women and their children shelter and hope for a new life through humble acts of love. OLI is a residential maternity shelter and aftercare support program serving the St. Louis and St. Charles communities. The Inn provides a safe haven for the homeless expectant woman and her children where she can achieve her personal goals for employment, stable housing, education, and family wellness while she awaits the birth of her child in a welcoming and supportive environment.
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Pacem in Terris, Ulster Project Delaware (Wilmington, DE)
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Ulster Project Delaware seeks to promote reconciliation between Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants by fostering tolerance, understanding, and friendship among future leaders. The project brings a group of 18 teenagers between the ages of 14 to 16 and four adult leaders from Northern Ireland, half of whom are Catholic and half of whom are Protestant, to the Wilmington area during the month of July. They live with host families with teenagers of the same age and through a variety of activities, ranging from spiritual and group building to social, recreational, sightseeing, and service, barriers are broken down and bridges of trust are built. The leaders who accompany the group continue to do follow-up activities with the N.I. teens once they return home. Started in 1976 by Charles A. and Josephine R. Robinson, Ulster Project Delaware is now the oldest, continuously running Ulster Project in the United States.