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EFFECT CHANGE, AFFECT LIVES

Thanks to dedicated leaders and volunteers, our social ministries are making a positive difference in people's lives and in communities all around our Province and beyond. Use this page as your directory of opportunities for getting involved.

Become a Jesuit volunteer

Work for a better world as a volunteer in one of our social ministries.

Ignatian Solidarity Network
Ignatian Volunteer Corps
Jesuit Volunteer Corps
PICO National Network

Let's renew our communities

Our ministries lead community development efforts, like creating jobs, reducing gang violence, improving public schools, and providing access to health care.

Homeboy Industries
PICO National Network
Proyecto Pastoral

Help us pursue social justice

Outraged by injustice? Channel that righteous anger into one of our ministries aiming for social justice.

Ignatian Solidarity Network
Ignatian Volunteer Corps
Jesuit Advocates, USA
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Southwest
PICO National Network

Reach beyond borders

Some Jesuit parishes reach far across borders to demonstrate their solidarity with international missions.
"Divine Secrets of a Parochial Sisterhood"
International ministries
Jesuit Refugee Service

Listen to a podcast by a volunteer leader

Josie Piranio, a laywoman who directs the San Diego office of the Ignatian Volunteer Corps, tells how retirees can find new purpose in the "third phase of our lives" by putting their faith into action and serving the poor and the addicted.

Access our spiritual resources

Reflect on our Ignatian-style Rosary and prayers; listen to Jesuit music.