Make a Gift

You…with us in MINISTRY, You…with us in MISSION, You…with us for the FUTURE.

To make a secure online donation, please click a button below. We accept major credit cards, Apple Pay, PayPal, and Venmo. You will receive an email confirmation of your gift as well as a print tax receipt via US mail. Thank you!

Ministry/Retirement
Memorial/Tribute

Your gift helps all our Sisters, active and retired, to extend God's presence to the countless persons we pray for and meet each day:

  • A homeless mother seeking counsel

  • A young student in the classroom

  • A person imprisoned in jail or by addiction

  • An elderly couple confined at home

  • A hospital patient hungering for comfort

  • A person suffering the loss of a loved one

Donate by Mail

Please download the donation form, print it, fill it out, and mail it back to us.
You will find the mailing address at the bottom of the form.

Other Ways to Give

Every day we are joined by countless volunteers & donors. Their support & collaboration extend our reach well beyond what we could ever do alone.

General Donations

These are unsolicited gifts made as donors deem appropriate. Donations can be made online or you may print and fill out our donation form and submit via the mail.

Annual Fund 

Each year, we invite you to invest in our work of education, health care, social work, and pastoral ministry with your support of the annual fund.

Every gift to the Annual Fund benefits those we serve in a direct and powerful way. We are grateful for all gifts and pray that our work through our various ministries and the retirement needs of our Sisters at the Motherhouse continues to be worthy of your annual support.

Memorial / Tribute Gifts

Pay tribute to the special people in your life with a gift to the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Rochester. Your gift helps all our Sisters, active and retired; to extend God's presence to the countless persons we pray for and meet each day:

The program includes gifts given in memory of a deceased person, or a tribute gift to honor someone on special occasions such as:

  • Birthdays

  • Graduations

  • Weddings & Anniversaries

  • Get well wishes

  • Holidays

You can also pay a meaningful tribute to a Sister who is celebrating a Jubilee, was your favorite teacher or influenced your life in some other way.

Those honored or memorialized are remembered by the Sisters in their daily prayers.

We send a card acknowledging the tribute or the memorial gift to the person, family, or Sister being honored or remembered. The amount of your gift will not be disclosed. A memorial or tribute gift can be made through the secure online giving link at the top of this page.

Honor the Past, Build our Future

Planned gifts provide resources that will touch the lives of those who come after us and continue the wonderful work of our sisters and associates into the future. You can invest in our future mission in several ways. Learn more at our Planned Giving page.

Your support extends our reach well beyond what we could ever do alone. As always, the Sisters of Saint Joseph hold you in their prayers. For your planning purposes the SSJ Federal Tax ID is: 16-0743089

For more information please contact:

Dawn Gruba, Director, Office for Mission Advancement
(585) 641-8172
dgruba@ssjrochester.org