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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English as a Second Language (ESL) Program for Immigrants, Scranton, PA
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.
Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn
Biography
The Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn is the Diocese/Eparchy for Maronite Catholics that live in the 16 states on the eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida. The mission of the Eparchy is to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, assure the availability of the Sacraments, and offer pastoral and catechetical programs to the faithful throughout the Diocese. In addition to our 43 parishes and missions, the Eparchy has a dozen offices that serve the faithful such as the Office for Religious Education, Office of Family and Sanctity of Life and Office of Ministries.
Epiphany Center
Biography
Since 1852, Mount St Joseph-St Elizabeth(doing business as Epiphany Center) has been serving San Francisco’s at-risk families. The mission of the agency is to promote and strengthen family life through programs faithful to the beliefs of the Catholic Church, rooted in Judeo-Christian values and the tradition of services of the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul.
Epiphany Center provides life-changing services annually for over 200 of the most vulnerable women, children, and the families in San Francisco. Programs consist of Residential Drug Treatment programs for women and their children up to three years of age, a Parent-Child Center for early intervention of infant prenatal drug exposure, Family Therapy for children with stress and trauma, In-Home Services for at-risk families, and a Pediatric Clinic for high-risk children.
Eternal Word Television Network, Inc.
Biography
Eternal Word Television Network is dedicated to the advancement of truth as defined by the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. The mission of the Eternal Word Television Network is to serve the orthodox belief and teaching of the Church as proclaimed by the Supreme Pontiff and his predecessors. The goal of the Eternal Word Television Network is to provide the means by which the various organizations within the Church will have a nation-wide vehicle of expression. This will be provided for them without charge as long as their spirituality remains within the theological context of Mother Church. This is best evidenced by the acceptance of the Dogmas, Rules and Regulations of the church in all matters, but especially as they relate to the topics on which their television presentation is based. As the Eternal Word Television Network exist to provide a media for orthodox endeavors, this mission statement should be viewed as the basis of our foundation for this essential spiritual growth ministry, not as an attempt to censor any organization or individual.
EV (Earthen Vessels, Inc)
Biography
Earthen Vessels mission is to transform lives. We prevent low-income youth (grades 4-12) from Roxbury and Dorchester, MA, from dropping out of school; systematically strengthening core academic skills, organizational habits, and other life skills; and successfully matriculating 100% of our EVkids seniors in college. We do this by recruiting, training, and mobilizing a motivated volunteer corps of top Catholic university students who provide multi-year, one-on-one after school tutoring and mentoring, supported by professional family and school advocacy, and a life changing summer camp experience. By engaging at-risk youth and university students in multi-year, mutually enriching relationships, we believe our EVkids and their EVcorps tutors will become integral parts of a more socially just, tolerant, and compassionate world.
Everest Academy of Lemont, Illinois
Biography
Our goal is to offer each child the highest quality education through Integral Formation, the pedagogical method developed by the Legionaries of Christ. Through Integral Formation, each student benefits from a personalized approach that develops the whole person, from intellect and character to spiritual life and apostolic responsibility. The result: intelligent, responsible, and positive leaders who will transform society with Gospel values.
Everest offers a Pre-kindergarten program for 3 and 4-year-olds, Kindergarten, and Grades 1 – 8, and currently has an enrollment of approximately 270 students from Pre-kindergarten to 8th Grade.
Everest Collegiate High School & Academy
Biography
Everst Collegiate High School and Academy is an independent, private Catholic school from Pre-K through 12th grade providing gender specific education on a co-ed campus.Committed to excellence in academic, character and spiritual formation through the Legionary of Christ model of Integral Formation, our education is centered on the person of Jesus Christ, devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and is faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. The Everest student is capable of success in a rigorous and balanced academic environment, and an Everest family is open to our Catholic mission, understanding the investment of time, talent, and treasure involved with education of their children. Everest families predominantly live in northern Oakland and southern Genesee counties in Michgan; we host boarding students from international families to our middle and high school programs; we welcome high school-aged young women from the Immaculate Conception boarding program.
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Family Counseling Center of St. Paul’s
Biography
The mission of the Family Counseling Center of St Paul’s(FCCSP) is providing affordable, accessible, bilingual, and culturally-sensitive mental and behavioral health counseling to children, adults, and families; parenting skills to parents and caregivers; and, customized training to school teachers and educators.
The vision of the FCCSP is to continue to provide intimate, compassionate direct-care human services through the integration of our CASA approach, a cost-effective replicable model that emphasizes positive, loving affirmation and honest communications between children, adults, and within families.
Family Honor, Inc.
Biography
Family Honor provides a Catholic framework on the truth and meaning of sexuality, love, and family. We fulfill our mission through family-centered programs that bring parents and teens together to talk about some of the most important things in life, with special focus on chastity. Family Honor also delivers weekend courses and half day seminars for adults. Some programs available in Spanish.
Fathers of St. Edmund, Southern Missions, Inc.
Biography
“Rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Edmundite Southern Missions stands with poor Black children, families and elders as we feed the poor, clothe the needy, shelter the homeless and educate God’s people to break the yoke of poverty in the Deep South.”
-From our Mission Statement
Edmundite Missions has been fulfilling our calling for more than 77 years by quietly serving the poor living in the poverty-stricken communities of the Deep South. What began in 1937 as a courageous fight for victims of discrimination in Alabama’s Black Belt quickly broadened to include outreach ministries of compassion, providing for the essential daily needs of food, clothing and shelter to those stricken by extreme poverty. The Edmundite Missions serves poor and marginalized children, families, young adults and seniors of all faith traditions to meet their immediate needs while addressing the long term issues of systemic poverty in the Deep South.
As a Catholic organization, rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, our commitment is to provide the programs and essential services that address some of the most pressing issues affecting those living in some of the poorest counties in America. Also, we are constantly and prayerfully evolving our programs and creating new ministries to help lead those in poverty from hopelessness to self-sustainability, from education programs to apprenticeship opportunities. We carry out our commitment to the people of this region guided by our motto, taken from our founder Father Frank Casey, SSE “do the best we can, with what little we have, to serve those most in need.”
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Poverty in the Deep South: An Introduction to the Edmundite Missions from Edmundite Missions on Vimeo.
Fellowship of Christian Athletes (Central Maryland FCA office)
Biography
The mission of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes is
to present to athletes and coaches and to all whom they influence the
challenge and adventure of receiving Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord,
serving Him in their relationships and in the fellowship of his church.
FCA began in 1954 and is now the largest Christian campus ministry in the
world. We have a local staff which serve the Crownsville area.
Feminists For Life of America (Washington, DC)
Biography
Established in 1972 and reorganized in 1995, Feminists For Life of America (FFLA) is a nonsectarian, grassroots organization. Feminists for Life of America recognizes that abortion is a reflection that our society has failed to meet the needs of women. We are dedicated to systematically eliminating the root causes that drive women to abortion—primarily lack of practical resources and support—through holistic, woman-centered solutions. Women deserve better than abortion.
Florida Community Loan Fund (Orlando, FL)
Biography
The Mission of the Florida Community Loan fund is to: 1) Provide loans on affordable terms and technical assistance to meet housing, economic development and social servid credit needs in Florida’s low-income communities; 2) Assist traditionally under-served organizations and businesses in both urban and rural areas by complementing and extending the reach of conventional lenders and public institutions; and 3) Responsibly match resources from socially-concerned investors and donors to the needs of low-income communities, significantly strengthening social and economic justice throughout Florida.
FOCUS The Fellowship of Catholic University Students
Biography
The Fellowship of Catholic University Students is a Catholic collegiate outreach whose mission is to share the hope and joy of the gospel with college and university students, inspiring and equipping them for a lifetime of Christ-centered evangelization, discipleship and friendships in which they lead others to do the same.
Fonkoze USA
Biography
Fonkoze is a Haitian foundation that supports the organized poor, providing them with essential banking services throughout the country and assisting borrowers with literacy, business training and health education. Fonkoze USA is the American nonprofit that assists Fonkoze in its critical work. Both Fonkoze and Fonkoze USA are committed to the economic and social improvement of the people and communities of Haiti and to the reduction of poverty in the country. Both organizations are non-political and take no official positions on any aspect of the Haitian political situation. Although Board directors, staff and clients may express such opinions, they do not ever express these on behalf of Fonkoze or Fonkoze USA.
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Food for the Poor
Biography
Our mission is to link the church of the First World with the church of the Third World in a manner that helps both the materially poor and the poor in spirit. The materially poor are served by local churches, clergy and lay leaders who have been empowered and supplied with goods by Food For The Poor.
The poor in spirit are renewed by their relationship with and service to the poor through our direct ministry of teaching, encouragement and prayer. Ultimately, we seek to bring both benefactors and recipients to a closer union with our Lord.
Francis House Inc
Biography
Francis House provides a home and an extended family to people with terminal illness sp they can die with dignity and experience the unconditional love of God.
Franciscan Earth Literacy Center
Biography
In the spirit of St. Francis, the Franciscan Earth Literacy Center recognizes our oneness with all creation. We promote active learning and healthy relationships with our natural environment to achieve sustainable living.
Franciscan Friars of the Atonement
Biography
We exist as a Catholic religious community to invite the world to join us in the quest for healing and reconciliation. We do this by living, embracing, and fostering the Franciscan spirit of At-One-Ment which includes: the unity of all and the healing of the broken and those who have lost their way. We joy in God.
Franciscan Friars, TOR, Province of the Immaculate Conception
Biography
The Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular (TOR) of the Immaculate Conception Province, follow Christ in the footsteps of Saint Francis. We are a fraternity of men who freely vow ourselves to living in communion as brothers. We strive to live the gospel through gentleness, hospitality, and service. We seek to address the changing needs of the Church and the world by calling ourselves and others to prayer and conversion. More about us: Since the 1920s friars from the Province of the Immaculate Conception have served in a wide range of ministries. Our friars continue to serve in parishes with immigrant communities, in schools as educators and counselors, staff retreat centers as spiritual directors, and are advocates for the poor through Peace and Justice Ministry. In the beginning we built a Monastery to minister to Italian immigrants in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, and were blessed by generous donations that allowed us to reach out and build churches, schools, and communities of faith in Paraguay, and around the world through the international mission work of the TORs in South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Our international body consists of friars in twelve countries. We rely on charitable donations to meet the needs of many of the Province’s earliest friars who are retired and to educate new priests to carry on our ministry. Our ministry continues to evolve and emphasize the spiritual path of continual conversion, constantly turning our lives over to God by dedicating ourselves to gospel poverty in the vision of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Assisi, and by sharing this gift with the Church, and the world.