Service and Outreach

Cook and serve breakfast for Palo Alto's Opportunity Center, where brothers and sisters who are less fortunate go to receive a free meal. We cook breakfast at 7:00 a.m. and finish cleaning up by 8:30 a.m. Some of us drive to the Opportunity Center to serve breakfast from 8:15 a.m. until 9:45 a.m. Occurs twice monthly.

Help prepare and serve in-person hot meals at St. Anthony’s Padua Dining Room on the first, fourth and fifth Saturdays of each month, from 8:30 AM to 1 PM (or a portion of that time). Contact Gary Glover (gary.glover@stanford.edu, 650-302-6902) for more information or to have a volunteer position reserved for you. 

On behalf of The Giving Tree organization, we host opportunities for our community to donate to children in need, typically a backpack drive every August and a gift drive every December. Contact Larry Hu (hudat@stanfordalumni.com).

Join fellow community members from the Catholic Community at Stanford as we head to Common Roots Farm in Santa Cruz for a morning of volunteering on Saturdays, on a monthly basis. Work may include planting, harvesting, working soil, clearing beds, petting chickens, feeding sheep, or whatever needs to be done on the farm that day. The morning will begin at 9:30am and end around 12:30pm. We provide lunch to those who wish to stay. 

Visit Catholic patients at Stanford Hospital and offer them Communion while acting as a compassionate listener, empathic, well grounded in your faith and open to serving a couple of hours a week. The Spiritual Care Services Volunteer at Stanford program offers several trainings a year. To learn more contact VolunteerResources@stanfordhealthcare.org