Social Mission Mini-Grants
Did you know Bellarmine’s Social Mission Core Team offers mini-grants of up to $1,000 to area non-profits and startup initiatives? Grant applications for the 2027 fiscal year are due by September 26. You can find the application here. Contact Tim Severyn, our Director of Sustainability and Social Mission, with questions!
Grant ApplicationSocial Mission Year in Review 2025
Social Mission NewsletterThe chart and accompanying explanations below will help you to better understand the structure and activity of our Social Mission ministries. We invite you to use it as a tool to discern how you can best live into Christ’s call of active discipleship.
Our Service and Solidarity Teams complement and collaborate with our Issue-Based Action Teams. These Teams offer a variety of weekly and monthly service opportunities for you and your family. Each of these groups would welcome your involvement. You can learn more about the organizations we serve below:
- The Bellarmine Conference of St. Vincent de Paul meets Saturdays, 9 a.m. to noon. Our Vincentians meet with our neighbors to pray with them and assist with rent, food, transportation, and more.
- The Shalom Coalition of Habitat for Humanity works seasonally on constructing affordable housing for low-income, first-time homeowners.
- Our Kairos Prison Ministry team is an ecumenical group of men who offer semi-annual 4-day Kairos retreats to prisoners in Lebanon and Lucasville.
- Tender Mercies volunteers provide a meal to residents challenged by homelessness and mental illness one time per month.
- Crayons and Beyond volunteers help sort school supplies for hundreds of schools in 16 counties each week.
- Lydia’s House volunteers offer a variety of support for this local Catholic Worker House, which serves formerly homeless women and their children as they reach self-sufficiency.
- Casa de Paz volunteers likewise offer a variety of support for Latina women and their children after experiences of domestic violence and trauma.
- NEXUS Community Garden and Urban Farm volunteers work to build relationships with our neighbors while decreasing food insecurity through growing healthy, organic food on Xavier’s campus.
Our Social Mission Core Team comprises leaders from ministry teams meeting monthly to coordinate across ministry areas, providing fertile ground for cross-pollination and greater, parish-wide efforts, including Parish Giving, Advocacy Partnerships, and Education and Growth Opportunities.
Our parishioners make parish Giving, both financial and in-kind contributions throughout the year. We highlight a different ministry partner or organization each month through our Outreach Collection. Some of these collections are annual, and our Issue-based Action Teams determine some. You can learn more about our current Outreach Collection here.
Each quarter, we offer Outreach Grants of up to $1,000 to local nonprofits and start-up initiatives. You can learn more about our Outreach Grants and apply here.
Advocacy Partnerships allow us to actively collaborate with larger coalitions active on city, state, and national issues. You can find more information on our advocacy efforts on our Ignatian Advocacy Team here.
Education and Growth opportunities abound for the year, from immersion trips to one-off events to more in-depth JustFaith experiences in small faith groups. The bulletin and the Social Mission Newsletter are the best way to stay on top of available opportunities. Sign up here!
Every fourth Sunday we sell Equal Exchange fair trade products after Masses. Products include coffee, tea, hot cocoa, chocolate bars, and olive oil.
