Love-in-Action
Love-in-Action Community Service Program
Our juniors and seniors make a difference throughout Central Massachusetts as volunteers in a variety of social service programs. The Love-in-Action program prepares our girls to assume their role as women of character and service.
Students give service at a site of their choice for approximately 120 hours over two years. Integrated into the religious course of studies, Love-in-Action includes journal reflections, participation in ministry, self-evaluation, and supervisor evaluation.
Students use their talents to help the community in meaningful and unique ways. Listed below are some of the organizations where our students volunteer.
Love-in-Action Mission Statement
Love-in-Action empowers students to recognize the dignity of each person and share God’s goodness by encouraging meaningful connections for service within the community.
Our main objectives are as follows:
- To encourage students to develop a love for service and to exemplify leadership within our NDA community
- To enable students to be responsible and accountable to themselves, family, NDA, and the community
- To help NDA students understand that service is a basic tenet of the Christian life
- To help NDA students gain an appreciation and understanding of the Seven Themes of Social Justice through community service and outreach
- To help bring about justice in the world in which we live
- To proclaim the life and dignity of each person through service to others
- To encourage NDA’s young women to assume their roles as Women of Character through service learning and connections developed in their communities
Love-in-Action Service Sites
(Past and Present)
Mesa Farm, Therapeutic Riding Program, Rutland
Habitat for Humanity, Worcester
Grace Pantry, Worcester
Grace Closest, Worcester
Meals on Main Street, Worcester
Joshua’s Showers, Worcester
Catholic Charities, Worcester
Catholic Charities, Leominster
Girl Scouts, Sterling
First Concern Pregnancy, Clinton
St. Francis Home, Worcester
Greenwood Swimming Development at WPI
Pilgrim Congregational Church, Southborough
Wachusett Food Pantry, Sterling
St. Bernard’s Church and Food Pantry, Worcester
St. John’s Food for the Poor Program, Worcester
Mustard Seed, Worcester
Boys and Girls Club, Hudson
Boys and Girls Club, Worcester
Boys and Girls Club, Leominster
Veterans Inc., Worcester
Net of Compassion, Worcester
Keep Gardner Beautiful, Gardner
St. Mary’s Parish, N. Grafton
Marlborough Food Pantry, Marlborough
Milford Regional Hospital, Milford
Elder Services, Worcester
Soul Fuel Cafe, Upton
North American Martyrs, Auburn
Visitation House Inc., Worcester
Columbus Park School, Worcester
American Red Cross, Worcester
Nativity School, Worcester
Canterbury Street School, Worcester
Project New Hope, Worcester
Flagg Street School, Worcester
Heard Street Discovery Academy, Worcester
Our Lady of Czestochowa, Worcester
Northborough Food Pantry, Northborough
West Tatnuck Elementary School, Worcester
Be Like Brit, Worcester
The Juniper Outreach Foundation, Paxton
Auburn Recreation and Culture Summer Camp, Auburn
Charlotte Klein Dance Centers
IHN Family Shelter, Worcester
Jewish Healthcare Center, Worcester
Joy of Music Program, Worcester
Mountview Middle School, Holden
Nelson Place Elementary School, Worcester
Special Olympics, Marlborough
Southborough Village Preschool, Southborough
Summit Academy, Worcester
The T.E.C. Schools, Worcester
Orthodox Food Center, Worcester
Seven Hills Foundation, Worcester
Why Me & Sherry’s House, Worcester
St. Mary of the Hills, Boylston
Worcester Police Department, Worcester
Eisenberg Assisted Living, Jewish Healthcare Center, Worcester
TAP Boston Food Pantry, Worcester
Peace of Bread Community Kitchen, Whitinsville
Christopher Heights of Worcester
St. Mary Health Care Center, Worcester
In-Home Elderly Care, Holden
Mayo Elementary School, Holden
Tatnuck Magnet School, Worcester
Visitation House Inc., Worcester
Urban Missionaries of Our Lady of Hope Center, Worcester
Pernet Family Health Services, Worcester
Our Lady of the Angels School, Worcester
Auburn High School, Auburn
Northbridge Middle School, Northbridge
Venerini Academy, Worcester
St. Anna’s Elementary School, Leominster
St. Peter Central Catholic School, Worcester
Lake View Elementary School, Worcester
Our Lady of the Angels School, Worcester
Assumption School, Millbury
Elm Park Community School, Worcester
Our Lady of the Valley Regional School, Uxbridge
St. Mark's Thrift Shop, Leominster
Westborough Senior Center, Westborough
Forest Grove Middle School, Worcester
Chandler Elementary School, Worcester
Boylston Public Library, Boylston
Leicester Public Library, Leicester
Davis Hill Elementary School, Holden
Rice Square Elementary School, Worcester
Saint Spyridon Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Worcester
Homestead Hall, Worcester
Mass. Audubon's Wachusett Meadow, Princeton
May Street School, Worcester
St. Stephen Catholic Church, Worcester
Christopher House, Worcester
Corcoran House, Clinton
District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.'s Office
Fales Elementary School, Westborough
Houghton Elementary School, Sterling
Maple Tree Learning Center, Holden
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston
Oakdale Nursing Home/Rehabilitation,
West Boylston