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.
If you wish to make an individual contribution to any organization in our catalog of ministries, please contact the organization directly. The catalog below can be searched by name, sorted by category or browsed alphabetically.
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Theology of the Body Evangelization Team, Inc. (TOBET)
Biography
TOBET provides original educational resources, presenting the truth of God’s design of the body to children, youth, and families, so that all will be transformed by St. John Paul’s life-affirming message of the Theology of the Body.
TOBET carries out this mission through talks, the Theology of the Body Marriage Preparation Program, and The Body Matters, the unique Pre-K through 8th grade Theology of the Body curriculum that teaches foundational truths about the dignity of the human person through St. John Paul’s lens of the body as gift.
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Thomas Aquinas College
Biography
Thomas Aquinas College exists to guide students in their search for the truth. Founded by a group of Catholic laymen, the College offers an unusual and challenging program in the liberal arts and sciences. Instead of textbooks, our students read the great books, the original works of the great thinkers who shaped our civilization, and discuss them in small classes, a method that encourages active learning and personal engagement with the ideas contained in the text. We maintain a strictly need-blind admissions policy and commit to providing whatever financial assistance a qualified student to attend.We invite all who sincerely seek wisdom to come and engage in conversation about the nature of reality, the purpose of life, and the love of God.
Thomas More Law Center
Biography
The Thomas More Law Center follows the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church defends and promotes America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and moral values, including the religious freedom of Christians, time-honored family values, and the sanctity of human life. It supports a strong national defense and an independent and sovereign United States of America. The Law Center accomplishes its mission through litigation, education, and related activities. It does not charge for its services. The Law Center is supported by contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations, and is recognized by the IRS as a section 501(c)(3) organization. You may reach the Thomas More Law Center at (734) 827-2001 or visit our website at http://www.thomasmore.org.
Transitions (Spokane, WA)
Biography
Transitions sponsors and initiates programs that, in faithfulness to the mission of Jesus, foster the personal growth and wholeness of women and children in need. Transitions pursues this mission through the operation of the Women’s Hearth Drop-In Center, Transitional Living Center and Miryam’s House. The Women’s Hearth Drop-In Center is a safe , welcoming community that promotes growth and well being in body, mind, and spirit for women of diverse backgrounds. The Center fosters nurturing relationships, encourages self determination, and advocates for change in systems which oppress women. The Transitional Living Center is dedicated to providing trasitional housing and supportive services for homeless women with children. In the spirit of justice and love, TLC promotes the growth and development of those it serves by empowering them to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness in their lives enabling them to experience healing and wholeness. Miryam’s House provides a nurturing homelike environment for women recovering from crises in their lives such as abuse, domestic violence, addiction, and the results of poverty. Through fostering the values of community and relationship, women are assisted in moving toward wholeness and continued growth leading to greater self-reliance and interdependence.
Trinitas Health Foundation
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Trinitas Health Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Trinitas Regional Medical Center and secures contributions to support the hospital’s many equipment, capital, program, and service needs so that Trinitas can continue to serve the underserved in the community.
Trinitas Regional Medical Center (TRMC) is a Catholic community teaching hospital sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth. At Trinitas, we dedicated ourselves to God’s healing mission. We strive to provide excellent, compassionate healthcare to the people and communities we serve, including those among us who are poor and vulnerable. We provide service in a caring, personalized manner to all and serve as an advocate for those in greatest need.
Trinity Free Clinic, Inc.
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The mission of Trinity Free Clinic is to provide quality free medical, health and dental support to the uninsured, under-insured, and low income residents of Hamilton County with dignity, through a professional and dedicated volunteer staff.
Trinity Missions Fund
Biography
The Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity, popularly known as Trinity Missions, is a Catholic order of priests and Brothers with missions in the U.S., Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Colombia and Honduras. Our mission is to preserve the faith in areas and among people who are spiritually abandoned, especially the poor. Our chief effort is to develop a missionary spirit in the laity.
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Ulster Project Arlington
Biography
To create peace through the children of Northern Ireland, where generations of adults have failed.The mission of the Ulster Project is based on a simple idea of sharing experiences. Northern Irish Catholics and Protestant teenagers are hosted by American families of the same religion and with a teenager of the same age and gender. These Christian based potential leaders from Northern Ireland and the United States build immediate friendships to provide a safe and trusting atmosphere. The teens meet almost daily in different churches to discuss the troubles facing the teens in their homes, schools and churches and to teach new ways around the prejudices and stereotypes that contribute to the violence often found in Northern Ireland. These meetings are performed by counselors, teachers and facilitators that organize the activities to ensure participation from all teens.
United States Catholic Mission Association
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USCMA is an alliance of organizations and individuals dedicated to world mission, both foreign and domestic. It seeks to identify and connect all Catholic missionaries – lay, religious, and ordained – serving from or in the United States of America. Missionaries from and in the USA have built bridges of solidarity among peoples all over the world giving the Church an opportunity to serve, and embody, the Gospel in every land. USCMA accompanies missionaries through the missionary process of recruitment, discernment, preparation, service, integration and leadership. It envisions a day when all Catholics have heard and responded to the call to mission. USCMA need support so it can build the Global Mission HUB – an online database of missions, the organizations that sponsors those missions, the countries where those missions have taken root, and those missionaries who serve those missions.
University of Mary
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The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic, and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond. It takes its tone from the commitment of the Sisters of Annunciation Monastery. These Sisters founded the University in 1959 and continue to support it today. It is Christian, it is Catholic, and it is Benedictine.
University of the Sacred Heart
Biography
The Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (USC), the oldest private educational institution on the Island, was established in 1880 by the religious order of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart as an elementary school. In 1935, the government issued a charter establishing the Colegio Universitario del Sagrado Corazón. In 1970, the Sisters of the Sacred Heart transferred the governance of the Institution to a lay Board of Trustees; in 1972 a coeducational policy was approved, and in 1976, the official name was changed to Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. The University is located in thirty-two (32) acres of urban property and in 1985 its Portico and Chapel were declared Historical Monuments by the US Department of the Interior, National Register of Historic Places.
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Vagabond Missions
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Inner-City teens confront a cycle of neglect, violence and broken family life. Vagabond Missions introduces them to Jesus and a loving community by mobilizing missionaries. Through outreach, every inner-city teen can be known, loved and experience hope for their lives.
Valley Family Center
Biography
Valley Family Center is dedicated to providing counseling and educational services to facilitate personal growth, strengthen the family unit, and protect human dignity for all persons in need.
Vincent House (Seattle, WA)
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Vincent House is a 61-unit apartment complex, sponsored by the Sisters of Providence and operating under the charism and vision of the Sisters of Providence Health System. It serves a low-income elderly and/or disabled population of downtown Seattle.
VirtueMedia
Biography
VirtueMedia is a 501(c)(3) educational not-for-profit that creates and broadcasts effective, compassionate, and educational sancity of life media messages, to bring about a positive change in hearts and minds. Specifically, our multimedia campaigns (TV, internet, phone support) have been proven to save countless babies and mothers from abortion, and gently but effectively educate the public about the sanctity of all human life from natural conception to natural death. Over the past decade, tens of thousands of VirtueMedia sanctity of life television commercials have aired thoroughout the US, Canada, and many foreign countries. VirtueMedia often collaborates with churches, dioceses, right to life organizations, and pregnancy help centers.
Visitation Hospital (Nashville, TN)
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Visitation Hospital will provide competent and compassionate health care to the people of southwest Haiti and will empower them with resources to pursue their basic right to health and health education. In serving the people in the geographical region of Petite Riviere de Nippes in the Department de la Grande Anse, the Foundation aims to be a healing presence that assures dignity and respect. The Foundation plans to: 1) Complete the hospital construction and provide ongoing patient care, making access to health care available for the many people who live without it; 2) Establish Visitation Hospital as the premiere hospital in Haiti by offering pediatric cardiovascular surgery in partnership with Internation Children’s Heart Foundation; 3) Serve the community compassionately, knowledgeably, and responsibly, resulting in lower rates of child mortality and increased rates of vaccinations; 4) Train and educate the community on health matters and encourage early at-home detection of all health problems.
Vita Education Services
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Vita Education Services provides quality educational programs that help individuals gain skills that enhance their ability to deal with real-life situations, meet personal goals and become more self-determining and self-sufficient. Vita serves diverse populations, with cultural sensitivity, encouraging personal growth and lifelong learning.
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Walking with Purpose
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Walking with Purpose transforms the hearts and lives of women by providing Bible studies that enable women to know Christ through Scripture and the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Founded in 2008, Walking with Purpose engages adult women, young adult women, and middle school girls using Bible studies designed for use in parish-based programs, independent small groups, middle and high schools, universities, and at-home study.
Our grand vision is to enable every Catholic woman in America to experience our life-changing Bible study, Opening Your Heart. We believe that as more women are inspired to deepen their relationships with Christ, transformation will take place in their hearts – and, by extension – in their families, in their communities, and ultimately, in our nation.
Washington Middle School for Girls, The (WMSG) (Washington, DC)
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The WMSG seeks to provide an exemplary education for young girls who live in an under-served, dysfunctional urban community and who are at risk of leaving school prematurely. WMSG offers an academically challenging program founded in the tradition of Catholic education. It is designed to support the spiritual, intellectual, social, and emotional growth of its students, with opportunities to grow in faith and self confidence and to exercise social responsibility. The school is committed to involving parents and families in every aspect of the educational process.
Washington Theological Union (Washington, DC)
Biography
The Washington Theological Union is a Roman Catholic graduate school of theology and ministry. Challenged and inspired by the charisms of its religious communities, the Union educates candidates for ordination and religious and lay persons of diverse backgrounds for collaborative ministry in the Church and service to the World.