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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North Atlantic Tri-Hospital Clinical Education Center (Atlanta, GA)
Biography
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
Biography
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)
Biography
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
Biography
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)
Biography
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
Biography
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
Biography
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.
Padre Pio Academy
Biography
In cooperation with parents, Padre Pio Academy prepares young people for their academic and spiritual future by striving for a thorough formation as Catholics, body, mind, heart and soul.
Padre Pio Foundation of America
Biography
Since 1977, the Padre Pio Foundation of America has spread devotion to Padre Pio and helped maintain his home village of Pietrelcina and the Capuchin Friary and Church where he resided for 50 years in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. We perform spiritual and corporal works of mercy in the name of Jesus and Saint Padre Pio, support religious and priestly vocations, and work with religious communities in Vietnam, the Philippines, Haiti, and South America. We provide financial assistance to Padre Pio’s hospital in Italy, La Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, have restored two churches in Pietrelcina, funded the Baptistry in Padre Pio’s new church in San Giovanni Rotondo, provide humanitarian aid both in the USA and internationally. Most importantly, our prayer group prays the Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart, the same prayer offered by Padre Pio daily, for the spiritual needs and welfare of our benefactors.
Parish Catalyst
Biography
Parish Catalyst is a non-profit organization supporting pastors and leadership teams who are growing vibrant Catholic parishes. We are a platform for creative ideas in parish ministry that will inspire the devout, re-engage those who have turned away from the Church, and draw others to the joy of the Catholic faith for the first time.
Parish Catalyst (Los Angeles, CA )
Biography
Parish Catalyst connects vibrant Catholic pastoral teams in a unique process proven to accelerate parish vitality and growth.
Partnership Schools
Biography
As an independent 501(c)3 and private school management organization, our mission is to develop outstanding Catholic elementary schools that provide students from underserved communities with the academic preparation, values, and skills they need to break the cycle of poverty and lead fulfilling, productive lives.
Pauline Community of Saint Joseph
Biography
The mission of the Pauline Community of Saint Joseph (PCSJ) is “to bring the Word to the world.” We do this by uniting and galvanizing members of the 10 religious and secular institutes of consecrated life founded by Blessed James Alberione—collectively known as “The Pauline Family”— to collaborate in dynamic and synergistic spiritual works of mercy that facilitate encounter with the Risen Christ. Our present objective is to establish Saint Joseph Guest House, a retreat center and community hospitality house, which will serve as a base of operations in the southeastern United States for the (Rome-based) Pauline Family and which, in the spirituality of Saint Paul, will offer powerful retreats, bible studies, catechesis, spiritual direction, and personal evangelism and faith-sharing workshops in English and Spanish languages. It is our belief that the works of Saint Paul, the Pauline spirituality of personal integrity, and Alberionian consecrated life offer the solid formation Catholics need today to be able to say with Saint Paul, “It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me” (Gal 2:20).
Pax Christi USA
Biography
Pax Christi USA strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating, and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence. This work begins in personal life and extends to communities of reflection and action to transform structures of society. Pax Christi USA rejects war, preparations for war, and every form of violence and domination. It advocates primacy of conscience, economic and social justice, and respect for creation.. Pax Christi USA commits itself to peace education and, with the help of its bishop members, promotes the gospel imperative of peacemaking as a priority in the Catholic Church in the United States. Through the efforts of all its members and in cooperation with other groups, Pax Christi USA works toward a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world
Penn Newman Center
Biography
“We are an apostolic Catholic community entrusted to Mary, working with the university community and families to live a full Christian Life as missionary disciples through encountering Christ, growing in their faith and their reconciliation with God and themselves, and sending them to serve, from one heart to another.”