Approved Service Agencies
St. Ursula Academy's Serviam Program is designed to help students live out the Ursuline charism of contemplative love of God and an openness and eagerness to serve the needs of others. St. Angela Merici dedicated her life to serving women, children, and families suffering from injustice. This program encourages SUA students to imitate her dedication to serving those most in need through intentional service and prayer. A minimum of 60 hours must be completed at two or more nonprofits/organizations throughout the students’ four years of high school.
Contact Campus Minister for Christian Service Samantha Meklus '18 at smeklus@toledosua.org for agency contact information.
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- Animals
- Art
- Children
- Community
- Education
- Elderly
- Environment
- Families
- Food Instability
- Healthcare
- Homelessness
- Human Trafficking
- Individuals with Disabilities
- Mental Health
- Religion
- Sports
- Veterans
- Women
Animals
Paws & Whiskers
Animals—To save lives by providing shelter, food, affection, and veterinary care for homeless cats while securing forever homes.
Toledo Area Humane Society
Animals—Relieving the suffering of, preventing cruelty to, and providing for the humane treatment of animals.
Toledo Zoo
Animals, Environment—Inspires guests to join in being advocates for wildlife and conserving the natural world by providing fun, awe-inspiring, and educational experiences.
Art
Collingwood Arts Center
Art—To build a world class adaptable, multi purpose Centre that is commercially sustainable by attracting major artists and productions while supporting local artists and programs in the community.
Sofia Quintero Art & Cultural Center
Community, Art—Supports and gives voice to the artistic and educational expressions which advance community development, responsibility and social equity, cultural diversity, global awareness and stewardship, as well as the empowerment of the Latina and Latino identities.
Toledo Museum of Art
Art—To integrate art into the lives of the people in ways that reflect our four values of diversity, innovation, community, and trust.
Children
After-School All-Stars
Children, Education—Provide free, comprehensive, out-of-school programs that help children in underserved communities.
Avalon Foundation
Children, Healthcare—Youth-centered leadership development through service to the rare disease community.
Boys and Girls Club
Children—Provide after-school programming for disadvantaged youth.
Cancer Kids First
Children, Healthcare—Striving to normalize the hospital environment and build a supportive community for patients through service programs.
Catholic Club
Children, Education—Educational child care and family center open to everyone.
Catholic Youth Organization (CYO)
Children, Sports—Inspiring young people to know God, love God, and serve God through athletics.
Connecting Kids to Meals
Children, Food Instability—To provide hot, nutritious meals at no cost to kids in low-income and underserved areas throughout the entire year.
Friends of Lucas County Children Services
Children—To lead the community in the protection of children at risk of abuse and neglect.
Girls on the Run
Children, Sports—We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
Grace Community Center
Children, Education—To encourage the personal development and self-actualization of its residents, through programs and services.
Isaiah 117 House
Children—Reduce trauma for children awaiting placement, lighten the load for child welfare services, and ease the transition for foster families.
The Josh Project
Children, Sports—A drowning prevention agency, The Josh Project aims to develop water safety knowledge and basic swimming skills among young people to prevent drowning.
Justice for Sierah
Community, Children—To protect communities by implementing the Ohio violent offender database, known as Sierah’s Law, in all 50 states.
Kids Unlimited
Children, Education—To improve the lives of children by providing the highest quality therapeutic, educational, medical and behavioral health services designed to each child’s potential.
La Posada Family Emergency Shelter
Families, Children—Offer temporary housing and supportive services to homeless families of all faiths in the Toledo area.
Lifewise Academy
Children, Education, Religion—To positively impact students, schools and communities by providing a Bible-based, character-focused Released Time Religious Instruction (RTRI) program.
Operation Surprise Attack
Children—Operation Surprise Attack unites with compassionate individuals, local communities and dedicated corporate partners to extend heartfelt well-wishes through cards and gifts to children who are bravely battling severe or rare health challenges.
Perrysburg Heights Community Center
Community, Children, Education—Community center dedicated to serving the Perrysburg Heights through education, social, recreational, and community oriented activities.
Ronald McDonald House
Children, Families, Healthcare—To support and provide family housing and resources while their sick child receives treatment.
Safe Kids Toledo
Children, Community—To protect children (birth to age 18) from unintentional injury through a multifaceted community response of enactment/enforcement, engineering, education, and evaluation.
St. Ursula Academy
Education, Children, Community, Sports
Sylvania Area Family Services
Families, Children—To enhance the quality of life for Sylvania area residents and reduce the effects of poverty through programs, services and collaboration with community partnerships.
Toledo Area Catholic Elementary Schools
Education, Children—To develop and nurture the spiritual, intellectual, social, and emotional growth of each student in the spirit of the Gospel and teachings of the Catholic Church.
Community
East Toledo Family Center
Community, Families—To educate, engage and empower our families and community to make their own change.
Habitat for Humanity
Community—Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Historic South Initiative
Community
Justice for Sierah
Community, Children—To protect communities by implementing the Ohio violent offender database, known as Sierah’s Law, in all 50 states.
Outdoor Sylvania Community Parks
Environment, Community—Provide endless opportunities for us to explore, discover, play and learn.
Padua Center
Community, Education—To be a Christian community-based presence empowering people at all stages of life to achieve their maximum potential through education, counseling, support and community involvement.
Perrysburg Heights Community Center
Community, Children, Education—Community center dedicated to serving the Perrysburg Heights through education, social, recreational, and community oriented activities.
Safe Kids Toledo
Children, Community—To protect children (birth to age 18) from unintentional injury through a multifaceted community response of enactment/enforcement, engineering, education, and evaluation.
Sofia Quintero Art & Cultural Center
Community, Art—Supports and gives voice to the artistic and educational expressions which advance community development, responsibility and social equity, cultural diversity, global awareness and stewardship, as well as the empowerment of the Latina and Latino identities.
St. Ursula Academy
Education, Children, Community, Sports
Toledo Grows
Environment, Community—To cultivate sustainable urban agriculture, empower local growers, and nourish our neighborhoods.
Toledo Public Libraries
Community, Education—Provide access to information and technology, promote literacy, preserve culture, build community, support education, and encourage intellectual freedom.
Toledo Sister Cities International
Community—Assist our sister cities in building bridges between the Mayor of Toledo and the mayors of municipalities across the world that have signed our sister city agreements to empower people to become “citizen diplomats” as a tool to promote global peace and understanding.
Toledo YES Project
Community—A four-day summer service project in the Toledo area open to all high school students.
University Church
Community, Food Instability—Creating a community of disciples through community health programs, community garden, and food pantry.
Women of Toledo
Women, Community—Offer programs that help tackle issues critical to women’s economic advancement and help women interrupt various biases in the marketplace, workplace, family, and community through the gift of education and empowerment.
YWCA
Women, Community—To eliminate racism and empower women through programming, social services, special initiatives, national campaigns, advocacy, and lobbying.
Education
After-School All-Stars
Children, Education—Provide free, comprehensive, out-of-school programs that help children in underserved communities.
Catholic Club
Children, Education—Educational child care and family center open to everyone.
Grace Community Center
Children, Education—To encourage the personal development and self-actualization of its residents, through programs and services.
Kids Unlimited
Children, Education—To improve the lives of children by providing the highest quality therapeutic, educational, medical and behavioral health services designed to each child’s potential.
Lifewise Academy
Children, Education, Religion—To positively impact students, schools and communities by providing a Bible-based, character-focused Released Time Religious Instruction (RTRI) program.
Padua Center
Community, Education—To be a Christian community-based presence empowering people at all stages of life to achieve their maximum potential through education, counseling, support and community involvement.
Perrysburg Heights Community Center
Community, Children, Education—Community center dedicated to serving the Perrysburg Heights through education, social, recreational, and community oriented activities.
St. Ursula Academy
Education, Children, Community, Sports
Toledo Area Catholic Elementary Schools
Education, Children—To develop and nurture the spiritual, intellectual, social, and emotional growth of each student in the spirit of the Gospel and teachings of the Catholic Church.
Toledo Public Libraries
Community, Education—Provide access to information and technology, promote literacy, preserve culture, build community, support education, and encourage intellectual freedom.
Toledo Tomorrow
Education
Elderly
Little Sisters of the Poor
Elderly—To offer the neediest elderly of every race and religion a home where they will be welcomed as Christ, cared for as family and accompanied with dignity until God calls them to himself.
Love for Our Elders
Elderly—To fight isolation in senior communities through handwritten letters, videos, and stories.
Mobile Meals of Toledo
Elderly, Food Instability—To help our clients remain independent and enhance their quality of life by delivering nutritious meals.
Nursing Homes
Elderly, Healthcare—Any service done at a local nursing home.
Sunset House (Otterbein)
Healthcare, Elderly—Living community for elderly.
Sylvania Senior Center
Elderly—To promote healthy aging through community programming and services.
Environment
577 Foundation
Environment—Seeking ecological balance and environmental sustainability through classes, events, art, and conservation.
Metroparks of Toledo
Environment—To conserve the region’s natural resources by creating, developing, improving, protecting, and promoting clean, safe, and natural parks and open spaces for the benefit, enjoyment, education, and general welfare of the public.
Outdoor Sylvania Community Parks
Environment, Community—Provide endless opportunities for us to explore, discover, play and learn.
Toledo Grows
Environment, Community—To cultivate sustainable urban agriculture, empower local growers, and nourish our neighborhoods.
Toledo Zoo
Animals, Environment—Inspires guests to join in being advocates for wildlife and conserving the natural world by providing fun, awe-inspiring, and educational experiences.
Families
Catholic Funeral & Cemetery Services of Toledo
Families—Supporting grief services for all families.
East Toledo Family Center
Community, Families—To educate, engage and empower our families and community to make their own change.
Family House
Homelessness, Families—Provide homeless families in crisis with professional, comprehensive housing and social services in a safe, caring environment.
Heartbeat of Toledo
Women, Families—To provide information, support, and resources to help women and men navigate pregnancy decisions, strengthen families, and build healthy relationships.
La Posada Family Emergency Shelter
Families, Children—Offer temporary housing and supportive services to homeless families of all faiths in the Toledo area.
Leading Families Home
Families—Helping families achieve independence and economic stability by providing life-changing resources, including mental wellness, education, employment services, and safe, affordable, sustainable housing.
Nightingale’s Harvest
Families—Nightingales Harvest provides nutritious food, hygiene products to aid in improving the health and wellness of families experiencing cancer.
Ronald McDonald House
Children, Families, Healthcare—To support and provide family housing and resources while their sick child receives treatment.
Run Toledo
Families, Sports—To build lasting relationships and group participation by presenting quality, family-friendly, fun and healthy experiences for everyone of all ages.
Sylvania Area Family Services
Families, Children—To enhance the quality of life for Sylvania area residents and reduce the effects of poverty through programs, services and collaboration with community partnerships.
The Victory Center
Healthcare, Families—To provide hope and support to cancer patients, survivors, and those closest to them.
YMCA
Families, Sports—Put Chrsitian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
Food Instability
Connecting Kids to Meals
Children, Food Instability—To provide hot, nutritious meals at no cost to kids in low-income and underserved areas throughout the entire year.
Food for Thought
Food Instability—To serve those in various needs despite their position through feeding and nourishing the community.
Friendly Center
Food Instability—Seeks to support, empower, and provide high quality resources to our community in a safe and secure environment.
Helping Hands of St. Louis
Homelessness, Food Instability—Dedicated to serving God’s people by providing a hot nutritious meal and a compassionate ear to all who come to us in need.
Mobile Meals of Toledo
Elderly, Food Instability—To help our clients remain independent and enhance their quality of life by delivering nutritious meals.
Seagate Food Bank
Food Instability—To enhance quality of life in Northwest Ohio by relentlessly working to eliminate hunger and improve nutrition.
St. Vincent De Paul
Homelessness, Food Instability—Provides programs and services for children, the homeless and the poor, free of charge regardless of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, handicap or national origin within Northwest Ohio.
Toledo Labre Program
Food Instability—To provide food and community to the poor communities of the Old South End and East Toledo.
Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank
Food Instability—Distributing food through a network of member agencies and facilitating various hunger-relief programs that promote healthy families and communities.
University Church
Community, Food Instability—Creating a community of disciples through community health programs, community garden, and food pantry.
Healthcare
Avalon Foundation
Children, Healthcare—Youth-centered leadership development through service to the rare disease community.
Cancer Connection of NW Ohio
Healthcare—To ensure a full compliment of support so that no one needs to go through cancer alone.
Cancer Kids First
Children, Healthcare—Striving to normalize the hospital environment and build a supportive community for patients through service programs.
Hospice of NW Ohio
Healthcare—Provide specialized medical, emotional, and spiritual care to people of all ages impacted by any life-limiting illness.
Nursing Homes
Elderly, Healthcare—Any service done at a local nursing home.
Ronald McDonald House
Children, Families, Healthcare—To support and provide family housing and resources while their sick child receives treatment.
Sunset House (Otterbein)
Healthcare, Elderly—Living community for elderly.
The Victory Center
Healthcare, Families—To provide hope and support to cancer patients, survivors, and those closest to them.
Homelessness
1Matters/Veterans Matter
Veterans, Homelessness—To house and bring together veterans and their families.
Cherry Street Mission
Homelessness—Provides meals, housing, and rehab for the poor
Family House
Homelessness, Families—Provide homeless families in crisis with professional, comprehensive housing and social services in a safe, caring environment.
Findlay City Mission
Homelessness—To provide emergency help to the homeless and hungry through collaborative efforts to meet physical, spiritual, vocational, and mental health needs.
Helping Hands of St. Louis
Homelessness, Food Instability—Dedicated to serving God’s people by providing a hot nutritious meal and a compassionate ear to all who come to us in need.
Off the Streets Toledo
Homelessness—To help homeless people get off the streets.
Rebekah’s Haven
Women, Homelessness—To provide shelter and stability to homeless single mothers and their children.
Salvation Army
Homelessness—To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and bring an end to all poverty through shelters, rent assistance, food pantries, disaster relief, domestic abuse prevention, job training, rehabilitation, and more.
St. Paul’s Community Center
Homelessness—To provide services and to act as a safety net to the homeless and those suffering from indigence, to promote self-sufficiency and to assist the clients in making positive independent life changes in an atmosphere of caring and concern.
St. Vincent De Paul
Homelessness, Food Instability—Provides programs and services for children, the homeless and the poor, free of charge regardless of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, handicap or national origin within Northwest Ohio.
Human Trafficking
Individuals with Disabilities
The Ability Center
Individuals with Disabilities—The Ability Center advocates, educates, partners, and provides services supporting people with disabilities to thrive within their community.
Anne Grady Center
Individuals with Disabilities—To enable individuals to experience dignity and respect by offering the highest quality care possible to individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Bittersweet Farms
Individuals with Disabilities—Therapeutically-based programs and activities that focus on community integration, social skill development, and fostering independence for those with disabilities.
Courageous Community Services
Individuals with Disabilities—To provide meaningful, inclusive opportunities for disabilities and their families through advocacy, education, and engaging recreational experiences.
Gliding Stars
Individuals with Disabilities—Provides adaptive ice skating programs to disabilities and opportunities to reach their fullest potential and enhanced self-esteem through development of ice skating skills and performance in an annual ice skating show.
Manahan
Individuals with Disabilities—Manahan provides a home, work and community integration for adults with intellectual/disabilities.
Parker Residential & Care Services
Individuals with Disabilities—To enhance the lives of persons with disabilities and their families by providing person centered services, safe environments, and opportunities for integration into their communities.
Sunshine Communities
Individuals with Disabilities—To create community among people with disabilities, their families, friends, and staff.
Mental Health
Religion
Lifewise Academy
Children, Education, Religion—To positively impact students, schools and communities by providing a Bible-based, character-focused Released Time Religious Instruction (RTRI) program.
Local Churches & Parishes
Religion—Any service done for a local church or parish (this excludes serving during worship)
Sports
Catholic Youth Organization (CYO)
Children, Sports—Inspiring young people to know God, love God, and serve God through athletics.
Girls on the Run
Children, Sports—We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
Glass City Marathon
Sports
The Josh Project
Children, Sports—A drowning prevention agency, The Josh Project aims to develop water safety knowledge and basic swimming skills among young people to prevent drowning.
Run Toledo
Families, Sports—To build lasting relationships and group participation by presenting quality, family-friendly, fun and healthy experiences for everyone of all ages.
St. Ursula Academy
Education, Children, Community, Sports
YMCA
Families, Sports—Put Chrsitian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
Veterans
1Matters/Veterans Matter
Veterans, Homelessness—To house and bring together veterans and their families.
Flag City Honor Flight
Veterans—That all Veterans should have the opportunity to visit the memorials in Washington D.C. that honor their military service and the sacrifices they made for America’s freedom.
Little Blessings Veteran Outreach
Veterans—To bring a sense of peace and normalcy to veterans and their families through equine therapy.
Women
Heartbeat of Toledo
Women, Families—To provide information, support, and resources to help women and men navigate pregnancy decisions, strengthen families, and build healthy relationships.
Rebekah’s Haven
Women, Homelessness—To provide shelter and stability to homeless single mothers and their children.
Women of Toledo
Women, Community—Offer programs that help tackle issues critical to women’s economic advancement and help women interrupt various biases in the marketplace, workplace, family, and community through the gift of education and empowerment.
YWCA
Women, Community—To eliminate racism and empower women through programming, social services, special initiatives, national campaigns, advocacy, and lobbying.