catholic / service Clubs

  • Alzheimers Awareness Club

    Alzheimer’s Awareness Club focuses on educating the SFD community about the many effects of Alzheimer’s disease. Club participants plan fundraisers to support the Alzheimer’s Foundation. In this club, members also participate in service opportunities for those affected by this disease.

  • autism awareness

    This club focuses on educating the community about autism. Members participate in volunteer opportunities assisting individuals on the autism spectrum and their families.

  • Campus Ministry

    Campus Ministry is dedicated to guiding retreats and prayer services. Members play key roles in assisting with Mass, serving as Readers, Altar Servers, Eucharist Ministers and Candle and Gift Bearers. Members of Music Ministry will lead music and song during all school masses. Throughout the year, the group gathers for faith-filled moments, fun, fellowship, and food, building a strong community centered around faith and service.

  • Environmental Club

    The Environmental Club fosters the Catholic social teaching of Care for Creation. By being stewardsof the Earth, students learn about and respect its resources and systems, and are guided by concern for the welfare of others. The club promotes recycling within the community, clean up projects, and has begun to grow plants to eventually donate to a local food shelter. The club has formed a partnership with Teen Eco Summit at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium to create sustainable conservation action plans to make our campus a more eco-friendly environment.

  • Fraterntitas

    Fraternitas (Latin for "Brotherhood") is a club for young men at DeSales that seeks to build Christian masculinity through lives of virtue. Young men gather weekly for prayer, donuts, and discussion and are challenged to perform feats of strength, intellectual prowess, and heroic virtue. Some of these include root beer tasting, basic carpentry, and debating the merits of Nietzsche's metaphysical worldview (or lack thereof).

  • Golden Hearts Club

    Corral for the Kids is a service club that works with OSU’s BuckeyeThon, the largest student-run in Ohio. In this club, students help plan, organize, and lead events to raise both money and awareness for pediatric cancer. All donations raised go to the Oncology, Hematology, and Bone Marrow Transplant Department of Nationwide Children's Hospital.

  • HOLA

    (HispanicOrganization/Latino Appreciation) Join HOLA, DeSales’ new Hispanic empowerment group! Celebrate your culture, connect with others and build leadership skills through fun and faith based activities. Let’s unite and make a difference together.

  • Mind over matter

    Mind over Matter is a club for all students at DeSales. It’s aim is to help students’ mental well-being throughout the school year, provide information and awareness for mental illness, and raise money for mental illness research foundations. The club will hold a few after school meetings for students to support one another and build connections. Come join Mind over Matter to improve the community within DeSales and create a healthy environment for yourself and your peers!

  • RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES / Stallions for wellness

    Our primary outreach serves the Ronald McDonald House (RMH) Charities and Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH). Members will learn healthy snack habits by baking and preparing food and snacks packs consisting of whole grains, fruits and vegetables for parents at the RMH. Members will promote mindfulness by preparing positive affirmation cards for children in NCH.

  • run the race club

    This is a service club that supports the Run the Race Club founded through the Brian Muha Foundation. Students have an opportunity to volunteer at the Run the Race Center monthly on Wednesdays to work with inner city children playing games, tutoring, and mentoring. Fun events at the Center include Trunk or Treat and an Easter egg hunt. Club members also host Racers at SFDHS events throughout the year.

  • Sisters of Strength

    Sisters of Strength is a Walking With Purpose Bible Study written for high school girls to help them bridge the gap between the truths revealed in Scripture and the confusing messages from sociey. In a supportive, safe environment, we will prayerfully discuss life’s big questions regarding forming authentic friendships, discovering your identity as a beloved daughter of God, and identifying your purpose in life.

  • ST. VINCENT dePAUL

    The DeSales St. Vincent dePaul Club is the first youth service organization of its kind in the of Columbus. Established in 1998 through the efforts of the St. Vincent DePaul Adult Conference of St. James, the club’s emphasis is on service and advocacy to and for the poor, both locally and globally. Service projects are developed by officers and members of the club.

  • SOBE

    The goal of the Student Organization for Black Empowerment is to be a light of relatability and fellowship for African American Students at SFDHS. This group will be a safe space to discuss the unique, yet shared experiences in the Black community. SOBE will have a hand in community outreach specifically among the youth bringing about awareness and support.

  • SORORITAS

    Sororitas (Latin for “Sisterhood”) is a bible study for young women at DeSales. Gathering weekly, Sororitas will focus on prayer, scripture readings, and discussion.

  • Stallions for life

    Stallions for Life is a service club dedicated to spreading the pro-life mentality that “Every Life is Sacred from Conception to Natural Death.” This is a faith based club that promotes service as well as fellowship. We are focused on living out the pro-life message in our school and in our world