ATJI aims to build a community for law students who share a commitment to serving marginalized or underrepresented individuals, communities and causes. ATJI serves as the bridge between academics and action, encouraging students to be leaders for justice.

The Immigrant Detainee Justice Project is a partnership between the Access to Justice Institute (ATJI) at Seattle University School of Law, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) in Tacoma, and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University (NYU) School of Law. NWIRP is one of the largest legal services organizations in the country committed to promoting justice for low-income immigrants.

Students devote one school day a year to direct service to the poor.

St. Rita Parish collects and delivers groceries to the pantry on the fourth weekend of each month.

Baby Corner attends to the physical needs of infants and young children in poverty. The parish community is encouraged to bring formula, food, and basic baby supplies throughout the year to the crib in the sanctuary.

The Center for Community Action and Service Learing is a resource center for students, faculty, and community partners who are engaged in curricular and co-curricular community service initiatives.  It empowers students to take action through community involvement, education, and public service to strive for social justice.

The Center for Global Justice fosters multidisciplinary research, education, and advocacy about critical international legal issues, including human rights, dispute resolution, governance, development, security, and the environment. Through colloquiums, conferences, and publications, the Center actively engages with doctrinal and policy dimensions of key questions that confront international legal regimes.

The Center for Service and Community Engagement  serves as the main entry point for students, faculty, and staff who want to serve and learn in the community. The Center also acts as the focal point for community-based organizations and government institutions seeking University support to address unmet community needs. The Center encourages all forms of community engagement including direct service, philanthropy, activism, political participation, social entrepreneurship, community-based research, and advocacy.

Seattle University offers an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies that includes natural science, social science, and humanities and emphasizes social and environmental justice and fieldwork.  

St. Leo’s parishioners started the Food Connection in 1982. In 2004 we served more than 117,000 people, over half of who were children or seniors. In 2008, our Urban Gleaning program collected over 1.5 million pounds of food from a variety of wholesale providers, commercial and private farms, and local food drives. Unlike many local food banks we are open five days a week (including Saturdays) throughout the year and our clients are able to get food once a week. We are also a designated infant-feeding site, and distribute baby food, infant formula and diapers.

The Center’s mission is to advance justice and equality through a unified vision that combines research, advocacy, and education.  Its research work is focused on understanding the relationship between law and categories of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and disability, especially with regard to their intersections.  Its advocacy work seeks to combat discrimination and to support communities in advocating for themselves.  Its education efforts are focused on helping students become agents for social change, seeking to diversify the legal academy, and training the next generation of scholar/teacher/activists through post-graduate teaching and advocacy fellowships. 

The Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate was founded as a positive and enduring vehicle for combating hate and hate crimes on campuses and in communities throughout the nation. While numerous government and non-governmental organizations are working against hate, the Institute is the only organization whose primary goal is to focus multi-disciplinary academic resources on the causes and effects of hate as well as potential strategies for combating hate.

Students enrolled in the Immigration Clinic will provide legal representation to clients in immigration proceedings. Students will get involved at various stages of these proceedings, which may include proceedings before Immigration Officers, Immigration Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals or Circuit Courts of Appeals. 
 

The Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center promotes just structures in the church and in the world. IPJC is sponsored by sixteen religious communities and collaborates with Catholic, ecumenical, interfaith and other organizations in carrying out this mission. 

St. Joseph's supports the Jubilee Battered Women's Shelter through both direct service and donations in an effort to aid this vulnerable community of women and their children rebuild lives shattered by domestic violence.

The Institute started in 1989 to empower Native Americans to minister to their own people and continue their catholic identity. The institutes training deals with alcohol/dysfnctional families and enriches the Catholic Tradition through the gifts of Native American Culture.

The St. Leo Community provides a weekly liturgy to the Catholic Inmates at McNeil Island's Special Committment Center.  Mass is celebrated monthly.  A team of six lay persons trained to work with this special population provides prayer, reflection, faith sharing and communion. 

For many years St. Rita of Cascia Catholic Church has been supporting and communicating with the missions of Kasisi in Africa, St. Catherine's in Alaska, and the Swinomish Spirituality Center in LaConner, Wa.
Not simply an exchange of letters, this helps the community realize the values associated with being a Jesuit parish, such as a real concern for the well being of others and a spirituality that moves St. Rita's forward.