Where We Volunteer - Keen: KEEN stands for Kids Enjoy Exercise Now. KEEN is a national, non-profit volunteer-led organization that provides one-to-one recreational opportunities for children and young adults with mental and physical disabilities at no cost to their families and caregivers
- Midnight Mission: Offering service to homeless families, we volunteer with the children for tutoring, and special events and activities.
- Good Shepherd Shelter for Battered Women and Children: provides a safe environment for women and children and gives them a second chance at happiness. Volunteers help teachers in the on-site school, the kids with art enrichment programs, afternoon playtime, in the nursery, and tutor the mothers in English.
- Good Shepherd Centers for Homeless Women and Children: provides care for homeless women and their children. Volunteers can adopt a homeless woman or mother helping them with essential items. They can also help at the front desk interacting with the homeless and helping with office duites, or help with the kids arts and crafts, and sports.
- Downtown Women's Center: provides meals, permanent supportive housing apartments, and a wide array of health, educational, and other supportive services to homeless and low-income women. Volunteers fix and serve lunches and listen to personal stories from the women.
- Boys and Girls Club: The Boys and Girls Club provides a safe after-school environment for kids ages 7 to 17. We help tutor the children at the center as well as assist them in a variety of recreational activities.
- El Espejo: Marians serve as a one-on-one mentor to a young, at risk student of Lennox Middle School.
- Family of Schools: The LMU Family of Schools focuses on creating and supporting a partnership between the University and the schools in the Westchester area. Marians help with tutoring and assisting teachers in several elementary, middle, and high schools in the area.
On Campus Activism Marians actively seek to empower the LMU community through awareness on issues that affect women and children in society. Some of the issues include but are not limited to: Breast Cancer, Domestic Violence, Femicide in Ciudad Juarez, Femicide in the Congo, Healthy Body Image and Heart Disease. As a feminist service organization, Marians seek to educate about feminist issues and challenge negative stereotypes.
2012 Officers | | President:
| Katie Emry | | Vice-President/Finance: | Saron Shiferaw | | Service Chair: | Jennifer Bullock | | Spiritual Chair: | Zoe Yentzer | | Social Chair: | Selina Roa | Women's Health & History Chairs:
| Nicole Lata and Leah Hubbard | | Public Relations Chair: | Marissa Bullock | | Moderators: | Theresia de Vroom and Karlee Vilsack | | Chaplain: | Joanna Carroll, C.S.J. |
Contact: mariansserviceorg@gmail.com
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