Ladies of Charity Volunteer information
2025 – 2026 Volunteer Chairperson: Mary Giordano, email
Beneficiaries:
1. Seton Center
2816 East 23rd Street, Kansas City, MO 64127
https://www.setonkc.org/
Seton Center is a Catholic-sponsored social service agency providing help to inner city residents who are living in poverty or at risk. Services include food pantry, thrift shop / clothes closet, low-cost dental clinic and social services such as rent assistance and pharmacy vouchers.
We help in the food pantry, sorting clothes and household items for the thrift shop, and staffing the thrift shop. There are also special multi-day events, the Back to School and Christmas Sharing, that we help staff. Loom knitting hats for clients.
Contacts:
Clothes Closet contact: Isabel Mayer, isabel.mayer@setonkc.org
Food Pantry contact: Paula Davis, email, 816-581-4758
Mary Pat Sullivan, LOC – email
Volunteer Opportunities:
Sorting donations & restocking Clothes Closet: Mondays 9 am-11:30 am, third Monday 1-3 pm, Last Wednesday 9 – 11:30 am.
Clothes Closet: Tuesdays 9 am-11:30 am and 1:00 pm-3:00 pm, Last Thursdays 9 am – noon.
Food Pantry:
M, W, F 9:00 am – 11:30 am and 1 pm – 3:30 pm
Tuesdays (by appt) – 9 – 11:30 am or 1 – 3:30 pm.
Thursdays – delivery restocking of pantry 9 – 11:30 am.
2. Villa St. Francis
16600 West 126th St., Olathe, KS, 66062
https://villasf.org/
Villa St. Francis is the largest not-for-profit nursing home facility in Kansas, providing care for all people regardless of their ability to pay. Their services include long term care, short term rehabilitation and a memory unit.
We help by transporting residents to daily Mass and weekly Christian services, staffing the gift shop, helping with Bingo, being a one-on-one friend, and sewing wheelchair and walker caddies for residents.
Contacts:
Shannon Morgan, email
Karen Brinker, LOC – email
Daily Mass resident transport: 9:30 am-10:45 am
Christian worship resident transport: Tuesdays 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Carol Hackett, email
Gift shop attendants: Daily 11:00 am – 2:00 pm