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Get Involved
Join us as we help our community realize its full potential.
There are lots of ways to get involved and make a difference with Catholic Charities. There are volunteer and advocacy opportunities, local parish initiatives as well as community events. It’s all about helping fulfill our mission of improving the lives of Marylanders in need.
Volunteer
We rely on the generosity of more than 8,000 volunteers who serve thousands of hours every year. Volunteering with Catholic Charities is a fun, impactful way to contribute to your community. While volunteering, you also can build comradery with your team, teach your children the value of community service or meet others who want to make a change in the world.
Volunteer Opportunities
Serve meals to our community
This volunteering requires being able to stand and move around for the scheduled time and to stay for the entire shift. Age requirement: Volunteers must be at least 14 years old. Those who are 14 must come with an adult. 15 and older may come without an adult.
Advocate
One of Catholic Charities’ values is to work for justice. The agency achieves this component of its mission through our statewide advocacy efforts led by the Advocacy Department.
Our top Advocacy issues:
- Increasing Equity in Key Safety-Net Programs
- New Legislation & Funding to Increase Medicaid-funded programs
- Immigrant Acclimation
- Time to Care Act of 2022
- Housing Equity
- Revision to Child Support Guidelines
Advocacy Alerts
Work or Wellness? A Barrier-Breaking New Law Means Less Need to Choose
April 19th, 2022
Workers who have struggled to balance the needs of their families with economic stability will have additional protections available to them now that the Maryland…
Parish Social Ministry
Parish Social Ministry collaborates with parishes to incorporate Catholic Social Teaching and social justice into Catholic parish life through education, encounter and engagement.
Current Outreach
Recognizing a Moment
June 18th, 2021
The journeys to justice and equity are far too long. Slavery arrived in 1619 on the shores of a nation not yet founded. It took 243 years for a president to declare America’s African slaves to be free women, men and children.