2022/23 Tithing Organizations

2022/23 Tithing Organizations

  • 678 Photography and Writing Program: A free summer photography and writing program for Rochester middle schoolers.
  • A Horse’s Friend: Promotes values/social competencies for inner-city youth, using horses & riding.
  • Asilhouette’s Movement Dance Company: A local Rochester dance studio focused on empowerment.
  • Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries: Promotes practices of Church Renewal, Restorative Justice, Sabbath Economics, Bioregional Sustainability and Social Transformation.
  • Blessed Sacrament Supper Program: Provides 450 warm, nutritious suppers a week for the most vulnerable in Rochester.
  • Boys2Men Home and Sanctuary for Men: Aims to teach young boys how to be confident, focused, & patient.
  • Buddy Readers: Instills within children a love of reading through guided practice, while building up self-confidence.
  • Building Minds in South Sudan: Builds schools and improves educational opportunities in South Sudan.
  • Call to Action Antiracism Team: An anti-racism team that works to address racism and create equity.
  • Cameron Community Ministries: Creates a vibrant and thriving community through empowerment and advocacy while meeting basic needs.
  • Center for Teen Empowerment: Empowers youth-led change.
  • Charles Riley Tutorial Program: Helps children use action in order to improve their community.
  • Climate Solutions Accelerator: Creates a healthier, more equitable, and environmentally sustainable community.
  • Coffee Connections: Provides pre-employment training for disenfranchised individuals.
  • Community Lutheran Ministries: An urban outreach ministry serving the 14621 area code.
  • Court Appointed Special Advocates Rochester/Monroe: Recruits, trains, and supports community volunteers who advocate on behalf of children in in neglect and abuse cases in our community.
  • Disciples for Christ Community Outreach: Serves the poor with education, training, awareness, and spirituality.  
  • Dreams from Drake: Provides children and teens who recently lost a sibling or parent with community and social support.
  • Eastern Service Workers Association: Provides self-help for the poor.
  • Franciscan Missionaries of Mary: Ministers to needs of people in remote missions
  • Friends of Borgne: Provides education for the poor of Haiti.
  • Green Valley Suhuarita Samaritans: Offers humanitarian aid to migrants in the Arizona-Sonora region.
  • Happy Birthday Cha Cha Cha: A charity to provide birthday joy for kids in need.
  • Himalayan Peace Education: A non-profit organization for social welfare in Nepal.
  • House of John: Cares for and offers spiritual sustenance to those in need of hospice services.
  • Immanuel Baptist Church: Provides neighborhood ecumenical outreaches.
  • Joining Hearts and Hands: Promotes improved educational, health, and economic conditions for African orphans and their communities.
  • Journeys of Solutions-Lake Evyasi Project: Provides process and structure to partner people and resources.
  • Judicial Process Commission: Provides comprehensive, evidence based re-entry services to serve clients involved in the criminal justice system.
  • Keeping Our Promise: Helps to resettle war-time affected families and provides help with career pathways.
  • Loop Ministries: Provides food for the poor and the developmentally disabled.
  • Maria Helen Drexel Association: Defends children and adolescents whose basic rights have been violated or threatened.
  • Mary Magdalene Church: An inclusive church in the Catholic tradition, committed to sharing the joy of God’s unconditional love.
  • Mary’s Place Refugee Outreach: A welcoming community for refugee empowerment.
  • Monroe Milers: A running program for kids in the Upper Monroe area.
  • Mustard Seed Ministries    Financial aid and food for the poor from a coalition of churches.
  • Om Shanthi Project, ARUNA Partnership: Provides housing and support to widows in India.
  • Oscar Romero Inclusive Catholic Church: Inclusive church in the Catholic tradition, where all are welcome to the table. Provides service to the poor with a special mission to migrant farm workers.
  • Out of the Darkness: Provides transitional housing and support to local women.
  • Pen ak Pwason Program of St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality: Provides meals, soap, detergent, and friendship to the elderly and disabled living in Borgne, Haiti.
  • Rochester Black Community Focus Fund: Works toward “Getting to Zero” on disparities that, specifically because of historical racism, leave Black Rochesterians short of so many opportunities, ranging from employment, to education, to availability of neighborhood services.
  • Rochester Community Bikes: Collects, repairs, and distributes used bicycles to Rochester’s most needy.
  • Rochester Gay Men’s Chorus: Creates social change through excellence in the choral arts.
  • Rochester International Children’s Film Festival: Free films, books, and animation classes for Rochester’s at-risk youth population.
  • Saving A.J. Crisis Nursery: A safe place for at-risk children.
  • Sewgreen: A non-profit arts and crafts store.
  • Shepherd Home, Inc.: Provides comfort and compassionate care to members of the community with a terminal illness and their families.  
  • St. Andrew’s Food Cupboard: A network of food pantries in Monroe County serving a specific section of the 14609 and 14621 zip codes.
  • St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality: A Rochester Catholic Worker community that provides food, clothing, shelter, and spiritually-centered care to its guests.
  • St. Joseph’s Neighborhood Center: Provide comprehensive health care, counseling, dental, and social work to individuals and families who lack access to health insurance.
  • The Charles Finney School Compassion Project: The student outreach mission of the Charles Finney School.
  • United Christian Leadership Ministries: Promotes social justice, equity, and liberation with a focus on family & youth.
  • Wayne County Rural Ministries: Provides individual and family support services to Wayne County.
  • Webster Comfort Care Home: A community-based comfort care home.