Catalog of Ministries

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Catalog of Ministries

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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Depaul USA. Inc

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Contact: Charles W Levesque, Executive Director Address 5725 Sprague Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19138 United States Phone: 312-282-8953 Link: http://www.depaulusa.org
Biography

Depaul USA’s mission is to offer homeless and disadvantaged people the opportunity to fulfill their potential and move towards an independent and positive future. Everyone should have a place to call home and a stake in their community. The strategic goal of Depaul USA is to develop its services into a national response to homelessness. Depaul USA now has programs in four cities, Philadelphia, Macon, GA, New Orleans and St. Louis, that service over 2,000 homeless men and women through resource centers, individuals case management, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing and respite care. Depaul USA embraces the Vincentian Values that espouse: taking action; serving the poorest of the poor; being non-judgmental; being innovative; and taking risks.

Discalced Carmelite Friars of the Province of St Therese of Oklahoma

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Contact: Susana Cantu Address 906 Kentucky Ave San Antonio Texas 78201 United States Phone: 210-735-9126 Link: http://www.carmelitefriarsocd.com
Biography

The Discalced Carmelite Friars of the Province of St. Therese are a community of men-priests and religious brothers-serving the Church through a life of contemplative prayer. In our apostolic work, we also strive to foster growth in the spiritual life, helping women and men to grow in friendship with God and with neighbor.

Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ

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Contact: Sister Rita D’Souza, DLJC Address P.O.Box 64 Prayer Town Texas 79010-0064 United States Phone: 806-355-3552 Link: http://www.dljc.org
Biography

The Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ is a Franciscan Religious community. Called to witness to the Gospel, they seek to draw all people into a personal relationship with Jesus through the transforming power and gifts of the Holy Spirit. This flows from a deep life of prayer, praise and on-going conversion in loving commitment to one another.

Dismas Ministry

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Contact: Ms. Tyler Curtis Address PO Box 070363 Milwaukee WI 53207 United States Phone: 414-486-2383 Link: http://www.dismasministry.org
Biography

Dismas Ministry supports the spiritual rehabilitation of the incarcerated by providing Catholic faith, scripture and prayer resources free of charge to prisoners and chaplains nationwide.

Divine Mercy Academy

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Contact: Ali Ghaffari Address 8513 St. Jane Drive Pasadena MD 21122 United States Phone: 410-705-0778 Link: http://www.divinemercy.md
Biography

Guided by the wisdom of our patron, Pope St. John Paul II, our Mission is to partner with parents in their roles as the primary educators of their children, so as to foster a love for truth, beauty goodness and learning by providing students with a foundation of wisdom and virtue, so that they may bear witness to the Kingdom of God.  We desire to form disciples of Jesus Christ, who are made free to realize their full potential by living joyfully in accordance with the truth revealed by God through nature and the Catholic Church.  We do this by providing a challenging and integrated Catholic liberal arts education.

Dominican College

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Contact: Joseph Valenti Address 470 Western Highway Orangeburg NY 10962 United States Phone: 845-848-7400 Link: http://www.dc.edu
Biography

The aim of Dominican College is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the College is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.

Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the College maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The college empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world.

Dominican College is dedicated to the principle that its educational programs and services must be both challenging and supportive, distinguished both by high standards and by attention to the needs and potential of the individual student. Affirmed and engaged by these standards and values, graduates are prepared for purposeful lives and for the careers and professions they choose to pursue.

Dominican Home Health Agency, Inc.

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Contact: Gigi Stewart Address 2501 Gaylord St Denver Colorado 80205 United States Phone: 303-322-1413 ext 12 Link: http://www.dominicanhha.org
Biography

Mission Statement: To provide quality nursing care and related services to the sick in their homes. We give priority to the poor, foster the integrity of family life and assist the elderly and chronically ill to stay at home. We provide these services without regard to the origin, creed or other status of the individual. We will protect the life of all people. We are prepared to adapt to the changing needs of the community and those we serve.

Dominican Literacy Center, Aurora

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Contact: Sr. Kathleen Ryan, OP Address 260 Vermont Street Aurora Illinois 60505-3100 United States Phone: 630-898-4636 Link: http://www.dominicanliteracycenter.org
Biography

The mission of the Dominican Literacy Center is to provide opportunities for women to receive individual tutoring in reading, writing and speaking English. Our mission also includes providing citizenship classes for women and men who are studying to become new U.S. citizens. We provide these opportunities through individual tutoring by trained volunteers within the neighborhood setting. The Dominican Literacy Center believes in empowerment through education, and in the dignity of each individual person.

Dominican Youth Movement USA

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Contact: Sister Gina Fleming, OP Address 555 Albany Avenue Amityville New York 11701 United States Phone: 631-842-6000 x 308 Link: http://DYMUSA.org
Biography

The Dominican Youth Movement USA connects today’s youth and young adults to the Dominican tradition
of preaching and the participant’s own call to preach. Through our programs and workshops that
offer a time, place, and context for establishing impactful relations, we build faith and
strengthen their commitment to God, community, family, preaching, social, justice and the Dominican
Order.

Vision:
The Dominican Youth Movement USA reinforces and expands the Dominican Charism to Christian youth
and young adults; creating future leaders of the Church who will preach the Good News as they
share, explore, and integrate their faith with family, community and the world.

Values Statement:
At the core of Dominican Life are the Dominican values of prayer, study, community and ministry.
The
Dominican Youth Movement USA guides our youth and young adults through our values:
• Prayer- the heart of a spiritual life.
• Study-understanding that truth is never complete and there is always more to know and
understand.
• Community- staying connected to God, our individual lives and the world around us.
• Ministry- integrating a life of service with a life of faith, preaching through word and action.

Donnelly College

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Contact: Monsignor Stuart W Swetland S.T.D Address 608 N 18th Street Kansas City Kansas 66102 United States Phone: 913-621-8746 Link: http://www.donnelly.edu
Biography

Mission: Donnelly College is a Catholic institution of higher education that seeks to continue the mission of Jesus Christ in our time by making the love of God tangible in our world. Specifically, the mission of Donnelly College is to provide education and community services with personal concern for the needs and abilities of each student, especially those who might not otherwise be served.

Drexel Newman Center

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Contact: Patrick Travers Address 111 S. 38th St. Philadelphia PA 19104 United States Phone: 267-787-5000 Link: http://drexelnewman.com/
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.”

Durham Nativity School (Durham, NC)

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Contact: Ms. Tina Sherman, Director of Development Address P. O. Box 3537 Durham NC 27702 United States Phone: 919-680-3790 Link: durhamnativity.org
Biography

The mission of Durham Nativity School (DNS) is based on the highly successful model of other Nativity network schools (www.nativitynetwork.org) across the country û to help break the cycle of poverty through a quality middle school education that will help empower each child to reach their potential. DNS is committed to providing an academically rigorous academic program to
socio-economically and disadvantaged boys who might not otherwise have access to such quality education.

The school provides the boys with emotional, social, moral and intellectual support through small classes and an extended school day and school year. Our faculty works to help our students become young men ready for the rigors of college preparatory high schools and, eventually, colleges.

 

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Eagle’s Wings Retreat Center

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Contact: Johnnie DeLeon Address 2805 Ranch Road 2341 Burnet TX 78611 United States Phone: 512-715-0017 Link: http://www.ewrc.org
Biography

The mission of Eagle’s Wings Retreat Center is to enrich the lives of Catholic and other Christian youth and their families by providing a Christ-centered environment with retreats and facilities in a natural setting. 

We are located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country about six miles from Burnet.  Eagle’s Wings Retreat Center hosts many retreats and events for youth and adult groups, churches, businesses, and schools. 

East Lake Academy

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Contact: Allison Walsh Address 13911 Laurel Drive Lake Forest lL 60045 United States Phone: 773-407-0118 Link: eastlakeacademy.org
Biography

The mission of East Lake Academy is to provide our students with an integral formation to develop them as Christian leaders. The East Lake student should be a young person of integrity and character who commands an appropriate wealth of knowledge of his faith, the humanities, and the sciences. The student should display critical discernment and possess a disposition to service. Our educational program of integral formation consists of three essential elements: teaching, educating and forming.

To teach means to provide the student with the intellectual capabilities, content and skills needed to respond to the demands of today’s society.To educate means to train the student in the habit of intellectual rigor, structured reasoning, and in the appreciation of beauty; it means to cultivate sensitivity, memory, imagination; and finally, to develop the art of communication and the ability to express oneself clearly and elegantl. To form is to foster in each student the foundation of all virtue and integrity, leading the student to become a person for others, with an upright ethical code and sensitivity toward the needs of others. East Lake Academy strives to build the complete person in its students, developing their full potential by teaching the mind, educating the heart and forming the will. We aim to serve society by promoting in our students academic excellence, spiritual growth and personal development, thereby creating future leaders for the Catholic Church and society as a whole.

 

Eden Invitation, Inc

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Contact: Mary Conway Address 1041 Grand Ave, #258 St. Paul MN 55105 United States Phone: 763-412-2131 Link: edeninvitation.com Link: TikTok
Biography

Eden Invitation creates space to receive the whole person, grow systems of mutual support, and empower for creative discipleship. We are disciples with LGBTQ+ experiences, building community with others who desire a way of life in congruence with Christ and His Church.

Elizabeth Seton High School (Bladensburg, MD)

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Contact: Sister Virginia Ann Brooks, D.C. Address 5715 Emerson St Bladensburg MD 20710 United States Phone: 301-864-4532 Link: setonhs.org
Biography

Elizabeth Seton High School educates young women in the spirit of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Vincent DePaul stressing Catholic values, academic excellence and service to those in need. We serve a diverse population from several counties in Maryland and the District of Columbia. The socioeconomic status of the students attending Elizabeth Seton High School ranges from low income to middle income. Of our students, 50% receive financial assistance and single-parent homes make up 29% of the student body. Special support is given to the financially poor as far as possible. The school provides a challenging college preparatory program for all young women who seek a community that celebrates diversity and creativity, fosters moral, spiritual, academic and physical growth, and promotes the Gospel values through service to others. Seton provides students with a solid academic foundation designed to stimulate intellectual curiosity and a love of learning. Our students are challenged to think critically, to organize their thoughts logically and to express ideas effectively. Our mission gives the student a strong foundation for growth in Christian leadership and service for the future. We are in a unique position, not only to educate young women academically but also to address the needs of our students as they take their place in a culturally diverse society.

 

Emmaus Ministry for Grieving Parents

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Contact: Diane Monaghan Address c/o 194 Bishops Forest Drive Waltham MA 02452 United States Phone: 617-542-8057 Phone: 800-919-9332 Link: http://www.emfgp.org
Biography

1- To serve the spiritual needs of parents whose children of any age have died by any cause, no matter how long ago.

2- To spread the ministry throughout the US by working with Dioceses/Parishes and parents who want to adopt the ministry on an ongoing basis.

3- To answer the call of the holy spirit to bring peace, comfort, and hope to grieving parents.

English as a Second Language (ESL) Program for Immigrants, Scranton, PA

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Contact: Sister Ann Monica Bubser, IHM Director of Development Address IHM Center, 2300 Adams Avenue Scranton Pennsylvania 18509 United States Phone: 570-346-5431 Link: http://www.sistersofihm.org
Biography

The Congregation of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scranton, Pennsylvania, operates this program. The IHM Sisters work together to meet the educational, healthcare, social and spiritual needs of those whom we serve. Efforts to promotejustice for local immigrants highlightthe need for an ESL program in South Scranton to serve the fast growing Latino population and other immigrant groups living in that area.  Experience in the program provided a depth of understanding regarding the challenges faced by learners, cultural differences, and the components of effective language and literacy programs. Feedback from the adult learners indicated consistent progress in the language as well as a sense of belonging and community fostered by the program. Sixty-seven adult learners are currently enrolled in the program, which runs 38 classes or sessions per week.

The IHM Congregation is a 501(c)(3), religious organization incorporated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.