Postgraduate Service Opportunities
The following list is not meant to be comprehensive—it simply identifies organizations of interest to our students in the past few years. For additional ideas, click on the resources listed in the left-side column. These resources identify hundreds of service opportunities in a wide variety of fields, locations, and organizations.
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| Title | Overview | Commitment |
|---|---|---|
| A Simple House of Sts. Francis and Alphonsus | Volunteers befriend the poor, spending time with them to build authentic relationships and understand ... | 10 months, beginning August 1 |
| Academy Prep Education Centers | Teach classes, supervise activities, and work closely with students and professional teachers at this ... | 12 months |
| Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL) Chicago | Teacher Residency training program that includes a Master's degree and placement in a ... | 12 months |
| Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) | Full-time teaching in under-resourced Catholic schools across the U.S., while earning ... | 24 months, including summers |
| Amate House | Fellows dedicate a year of their lives to serving under-resourced, low-income communities ... | 11 months, early August to mid-June |
| Amigos de Jesus | Amigos de Jesus is not a volunteer program; it is a children's home ... | 13 months OR summer camp June-August |
| Andre House of Arizona | Andre House is a ministry of hospitality which blends the traditions of the Catholic ... | 12 months |
| Annunciation House | Volunteers live and work in houses of hospitality, accompanying the poorest of the poor ... | 1 year or longer; summer internships available |
| Assumption Mission Associates | Assumption Mission Associates (AMA) is a ministry of young adults in collaboration with the ... | 1-2 years |
| Bernardine Franciscan Volunteers in Mission | Volunteers in Mission (VIM) is a volunteer program with service sites worldwide. VIM is ... | 1 week to 9 months |
| Bethlehem Farm | Full-time volunteers or "caretakers" serve in a variety of roles at this Catholic ... | 1 year or more |
| Bon Secours Volunteer Ministry | Bon Secours Volunteer Ministry provides the opportunity for women and men to participate in ... | 12 months |
| Boston College Urban Catholic Teacher Corps (UCTC) | Teaching in Boston Catholic schools serving urban students. Founded on the core values of ... | 24 months |
| Boys Hope Girls Hope | Boys Hope Girls Hope is an international organization centered on cultivating youth empowerment through ... | 1 year |
| Brethren Volunteer Service | Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) is a full time volunteer program that places volunteers in ... | 1 year (domestic); 2 years (international) |
| Cap Corps East | The Capuchin Franciscan Volunteer Corps (Cap Corps) offers men and women the opportunity to ... | 1 year |
| Casa de Esperanza | Casa de Esperanza de los Niños - the House of Hope for Children - is ... | 1 year |
| Change a Heart Franciscan Volunteer Program | Change A Heart Franciscan Volunteer Program is a 12-month service experience that empowers ... | 12 months |
| Christ House | The mission of Christ House is to provide comprehensive and compassionate health care to ... | 1 year |
| Christ the King Service Corps | CKSC is a parish-based and neighborhood-led gap year program, created by the ... | 1 year |
| Christian Appalachian Project | Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) is an interdenominational, non-profit Christian organization committed to serving ... | 3 weeks-12 months |
| City Year | City Year works to bridge the gap in high-poverty communities between the support ... | 11 months |
| College Possible | Coach low-income students to and through college. Dedicated AmeriCorps members serve as guides, ... | 1 year |
| Colorado Vincentian Volunteers | CVV invites young adults into a process of companionship with those who are poor ... | Varies |
| Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach | Columbans have been serving the poor in a variety of ministries in fifteen different ... | International: 3 months to 1 year; D.C.: 8 week summer internship, or semester length Fall and Spring |
| Con-solatio | Con-solatio is a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization rooted in the Catholic faith. ... | 14–24 months |
| Covenant House Faith Community | For more than four decades, Covenant House has helped transform and save the lives ... | 1 year |
| Cristo Rey Brooklyn Residential Volunteer Program | Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School (CRBHS) is a Catholic high school that educates young ... | 2 years |
| Cristo Rey New York Residential Volunteer Program | The Cristo Rey New York Volunteer Program seeks dynamic, thoughtful young men and women ... | 2 years |
| Dismas Family Farm | Fellows live on a 35 acre organic farm where former offenders also live as ... | 1 year |
| Dominican Volunteers USA | Dominican Volunteers USA is an 11 month service program that places committed individuals in ... | 11 months |
| Echo at the University of Notre Dame | Echo is a dynamic, two-year service-learning, formation program through the Institute for ... | 24 months |
| Episcopal Service Corps | The mission of Episcopal Service Corps is to develop and support a national network ... | 1 year |
| Farm of the Child | Farm of the Child offers volunteers a unique opportunity to live in a therapeutic, ... | 1-2 years, negotiable |
| FrancisCorps | FrancisCorps volunteers share their gifts and talents in a year long, faith based community ... | 12 months / can renew for second year |
| Franciscan Community Volunteers | Franciscan Community Volunteers is a faith-based program in St. Cloud, Minnesota that provides ... | 11 months |
| Franciscan Mission Service | Franciscan Mission Service (FMS) offers both international and domestic opportunities for long-term service, ... | 2 years international; 12-13 months domestic; short-term mission trips |
| Franciscan Outreach Volunteers | Franciscan Outreach Volunteers connect people who are homeless with human needs of food, shelter, ... | 12 months (renewable) |
| Franciscan Volunteer Ministry | Inner-city ministry, providing services to the poor and marginalized in Durham, NC, Philadelphia, ... | Mid-August through mid-July |
| Glenmary Volunteer Program | This is an opportunity for adult Catholics to assist a resident director in the ... | 3 months to 2 years |
| Good Shepherd Volunteers | Good Shepherd Volunteers recruits, educates, and supports full-time volunteers to serve women, adolescents, ... | 12 months |
| Holy Child Volunteers Dominican Republic | Holy Child Volunteers seeks graduating students with good Spanish language skills to serve as ... | 11 months |
| Holy Family Service Corps | Volunteers will have the opportunity to live simply in community while serving in one ... | 1 year; 3-6 month placements, when available |
| House of Brigid, Inc. | House of Brigid, Inc. invites recent college graduates to live as an intentional lay ... | 10 months (late August to June) |
| Humility of Mary Volunteer Service | The Humility of Mary Program (HM Volunteers) provides an opportunity for young adult women ... | 12 months |
| Ignatian Service Corps at LMU | ... | 11 months |
| Jesuit Volunteer Corps | Based in four core values—spirituality, simple living, community, and social justice—the Jesuit ... | 12 months domestic, 24 months international |
| Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest | Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest engages women and men in a transforming experience of full-... | 12 months |
| Jesuit Volunteer Program at Christ the King | The Christ the King Jesuit Volunteers strive to become men and women for others ... | 2 years |
| Jesuit Volunteer Program at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | The Cristo Rey Jesuit Volunteer Program connects men and women who wish to serve ... | 24 months |
| Jubilee Consortium Episcopal Urban Intern Program | A 2017 Service Year Alliance Program Impact designee, Jubilee’s Urban Service Program is ... | 11.5 months |
| KNOM Radio Mission, Inc. | Throughout Western Alaska, KNOM is a source of information, inspiration, and companionship, striving to ... | 1 year |
| Lalanne | Lalanne teachers make a two-year commitment to teach in an under-resourced Catholic ... | 26 months |
| Lasallian Volunteers | The Lasallian Volunteers program provides dedicated, well-trained volunteers for one or more years ... | 12 months |
| Lay Mission-Helpers | Lay Mission-Helpers are called by baptism to live their Catholic faith, to share ... | 3 years |
| Legal Aid Chicago | Make equal justice a reality and gets people back on track. Legal Aid Chicago ... | 1 year |
| Loretto Volunteer Program | Loretto Volunteers work for a year with social justice organizations while living a simple, ... | 1 year |
| Loyola University Chicago Opportunities in Catholic Education (LU CHOICE) | Loyola University Chicago Opportunities In Catholic Education (LU-CHOICE) is a two-year service-... | 24 months |
| Lutheran Volunteer Corps | Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC) is a one-year, full-time program that offers an ... | 12 months |
| L’Arche Greater Washington, D.C. | L’Arche GWDC is a faith-based non-profit community that provides life-long ... | 12 months or more with a preference for a two year commitment. |
| L’Arche USA and International | L’Arche communities in the United States provide homes and workplaces where people with ... | 1 or 2 years |
| Maggie’s Place | Maggie’s Place provides houses of hospitality for pregnant and parenting women in need ... | 12-24 months |
| Magis Catholic Teacher Corps | Magic Catholic Teacher Corps is a service-based graduate program centered on teaching, graduate ... | 2 years |
| Maryknoll Bolivia Program | Sponsored by the Maryknoll Mission Center in Latin America, the Maryknoll Bolivia Volunteer Program ... | 6 weeks to 1 year |
| Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers | For over 100 years, Maryknollers have been serving with the poor on the margins ... | Range from 6 weeks to 1 year |
| Maryknoll Lay Missioners | Maryknoll Lay Missioners is a Catholic organization inspired by the mission of Jesus to ... | 42 months, negotiable |
| Match Education | Match Education operates high-performing urban public charter schools, a unique graduate school of ... | 12 months |
| Mennonite Central Committee | Mennonite Central Committee is a global, nonprofit organization that strives to share God’s ... | 11 months, beginning in August |
| Mercy Volunteer Corps | Mercy Volunteer Corps seeks to model service that is characterized by mutuality and respect ... | 12 months |
| MercyWorks Volunteer Program at Mercy Home For Boys & Girls | Since 1887, Mercy Home for Boys and Girls has provided residential care for Chicago ... | 12 months (July-June) |
| Misericordia Home | Our program offers participants the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of ... | 12 months / renewable |
| Mississippi Teacher Corps | The Mississippi Teacher Corps (MTC) is a two-year program that trains non-education ... | 24 months |
| Nativity Prep | Resident teachers serve one or two years with AmeriCorps while making a difference every ... | 1 - 2 years |
| Nazareth Farm | Nazareth Farm is a Catholic community in rural West Virginia that transforms lives through ... | 1 to 2 years |
| Notre Dame Mission Volunteers | Notre Dame Mission Volunteers work to empower the economically disadvantaged and oppressed through education ... | 1 year |
| Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos USA | Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos (NPH) provides a permanent family and home for orphaned, abandoned, and ... | 12 months or more |
| Olancho Aid Foundation | The Olancho Aid Foundation provides a quality, Catholic education to youth living in an ... | 11 months |
| Operation TEACH | Operation TEACH is a two year post-graduate service teaching program in the Baltimore ... | 24 months |
| PHJC Volunteer Program | Volunteers share the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ Mission, Vision and Core Values as ... | 3 to 12 months |
| PULSE | PULSE cultivates a community of young servant leaders to transform Pittsburgh. We invite talented ... | 11 months (August-September) |
| Pacific Alliance for Catholic Education (PACE) | PACE is a two-year residency teaching program serving Catholic schools in Alaska, California, ... | 26 months |
| Partners in Los Angeles Catholic Education: PLACE Corps | The PLACE Corps is Loyola Marymount University’s nationally recognized Catholic teacher service corps. ... | 24 months |
| Passionist Volunteers International | Passionist Volunteers International is a post-graduate, faith-based, year-long volunteer program serving ... | 12 months; option for second year |
| Peace Corps | The Peace Corps is a service opportunity for motivated changemakers to immerse themselves in ... | 27 months or more |
| Precious Blood Volunteers | Grow in your faith and discern your life calling while serving those living in ... | Long term: one year. Short term: varied lengths based on organizational needs and applicant's availability. |
| Project Horseshoe Farm | Project Horseshoe Farm (HSF) is a non-profit organization based in Greensboro, Alabama that ... | 13 months |
| Providence Alliance for Catholic Teachers (PACT) | PACT, established at Providence College in 2001, is a unique teacher education program that ... | 24 months |
| Red Cloud Volunteer Program | Red Cloud Volunteers work for and stand with the Oglala Lakota people on the ... | 10 months |
| Redeemer Ministry Corps | Redeemer Ministry Corps volunteers serve in the ministries of the Sisters of the Holy ... | 11 months |
| Robinson Community Learning Center/AmeriCorps | The mission of the Robinson Community Learning Center (RCLC)is to strengthen the Northeast ... | 10 months |
| Rostro de Cristo | Rostro de Cristo (face of Christ in Spanish) is a year long service program ... | 12 months |
| SAGA Innovations | AGA Innovations is an education nonprofit that provides in-school tutoring to students in ... | 10 months (mid-August to mid-June) |
| SOME Volunteer Corps | SOME (So Others Might Eat) Volunteer Corps is a year-long, full time, residential ... | 1 year |
| Saint Michael Indian School | St. Michael Indian School provides students from local Native American communities with a quality ... | 10 months |
| Salesian Lay Missioners | The Salesian Lay Missioners (SLM) is a Catholic association of men and women, seeking ... | 12 months or more |
| Servant Year | Open to people of all faith traditions, Servant Year is a program of the ... | 1 year |
| Seton Teaching Fellows | Fellows serve underprivileged children in the South Bronx as they develop the knowledge, character, ... | 11 months |
| Share Foundation | Share Foundation With the Handicapped assists mentally retarded/other-abled people by encouraging them ... | 12 months |
| St. Joseph Worker Program | The St. Joseph Worker Program Is a one year volunteer experience for women who ... | 11 months |
| St. Martin de Porres Academy | Saint Martin de Porres Academy is a faith-based, middle school that provides tuition-... | |
| St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House | St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House practices the ministry of hospitality as inspired by ... | |
| Stonehill Service Corps | Stonehill Service Corps is a postgraduate service experience in which participants live in Brockton, ... | 11 months |
| Su Casa | Su Casa is Catholic Worker house on the South Side of Chicago which provides ... | |
| Teach For America | Teach For America is a national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and professionals ... | 24 months |
| Tom Dooley and Volker Blankenstein Fellowships | The Tom Dooley and Volker Blankenstein Fellowships are one-year ministries at Sr. Maura ... | 12 months |
| United Way/AmeriCorps | United Way of St. Joseph County is a nonprofit organization that identifies, participates with ... | |
| Urban Teachers Corps | Urban Teachers was founded in 2009 to solve a critical challenge in urban education: ... | 4 years |
| Vincentian Mission Corps | The Vincentian Mission Corps is a faith-based, yearlong volunteer program for young adults, ... | 11 months |
| Vincentian Volunteers of Cincinnati | Through work placements including healthcare and direct social services, VVC members deliver immediate and ... | 12 months |
| Westmoreland Volunteer Corps | The Westmoreland Volunteer Corps offers five adults, typically recent college graduates, the opportunity to ... | 1 year |
| White Violet Center for Eco-Justice | White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (WVC), a ministry of the Sisters of Providence, ... | 3, 6 or 12 months |
| WorldTeach | WorldTeach partners with governments and other organizations in developing countries to provide volunteer teachers ... | 12 month, summer, and semester programs. |
| Xavier High School Micronesia | Teaching and mentoring at a residential, international school. Xavier High School is a private, ... | 1 - 2 years |