Center for Advocacy and Outreach

We welcome you to Columban mission in a variety of ways, including internships, volunteerism and exposure trips.

Click on the links to the right to find information tailored to your interests!

Be transformed by living with and serving people and communities who are most vulnerable to social, economic and environmental injustices. Join us for five days, five months or a lifetime. Please contact Amy Woolam Echeverria for more information about any of our CCAO missions.

Issues

  • Economic Justice
  • Peace & Reconciliation

    • Action Alerts

    Make a Difference: Respond to our Action Alerts and be part of social change:

    Mission Through Their Eyes: CCAO Blog

    The Securitization, Commoditization, and Financialization of Nature

    For those of you that were not scared away from the title of my blog, I promise, I will simplify it for you! Unfortunately for me, when I heard these terms for the first time at a roundtable discussion hosted …

    A Day in the Life of A Columban Intern

    I’d like to give you an idea of what it’s like to intern at the Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach.  Most days as a Columban Advocacy intern are not tense, heart-pounding audiences with congressional staffers, or romantic, revolutionary protests, …

    Appreciating Scripture

    It’s difficult nowadays to appreciate Scripture in its original context. Jesus’ story of birth, ministry, death and resurrection is so ingrained in our lives that the message often loses its revolutionary sheen. For those of us born Christian, it’s simply …

    Spring Break

    The best thing about spring semester in college—Spring Break! It seems to come at the right time and everyone seems to have amazing plans of getting away, getting tan, and hanging out with friends for a week—everyone except students who …