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The Warming House offers an eat-in meal service as well as a take-out meal service Sunday through Friday. 

Hours: 3:45 p.m. dining room opens for a 4 p.m. meal. The dining room closes at 4:30 p.m.

Take-out meal service is served at the back door from 4:05 p.m. to 4:45 pm. 

The Warming House is located at 164 N. Union St. in the heart of downtown Olean. There's no sign on the building, but it can be recognized by the paintings of scenes from SBU on the windows facing Union Street.

The entrance is in the rear. Please park in the lot behind the building (off of North Barry Street) and enter through the glass door situated to the right of the alleyway that runs along the left side of the building.

The Warming House is glad to welcome volunteers. For information about how you can help, contact Mike Waseda, director of the Franciscan Center for Social Concern: (716) 375-2081 or email Mike; or visit the McGinley-Carney Center for Franciscan Ministry on campus. 

Questions? Contact:

Mike Waseda
FCSC Director
Send Mike an email

The Warming House depends on the generosity of many individuals and organizations to serve the most vulnerable of the Olean area. Please consider a donation to support this vital ministry.

Donate by mail

Mike Waseda
Director of University Ministries
51±¬ÁÏ â€” The Warming House
PO Box AR
St. Bonaventure, N.Y. 14778

Questions regarding donations?

Mike Waseda
Director of University Ministries
(716) 375-2081
Send Mike an email

You don't need to be a hero, just someone who cares. If you have a serious commitment to serve and a willingness to be a friend to someone who needs one, you're the perfect Bona Buddy candidate.

You'll attend training sessions and receive help and encouragement from the Bona Buddies team.

Interested? Contact Mike Waseda, director of the Francis Center for Social Concern: (716) 375-2081 or email Mike.

An application is required to enroll a child in the Bona Buddies program. Applications are accepted from August-October for fall semester, and from January-February for the spring semester.

To enroll a child or for more information, please contact Mike Waseda, director of the Franciscan Center for Social Concern: (716) 375-2081 or email Mike.

We have a years-long relationship with St. Francis Inn, a soup kitchen in the Kensington area of Philadelphia, where our students participate in weekend and weeklong service experiences.

Our students enter into the life of the Franciscan community who minister to the poor and homeless there throughout the year.

While in Philadelphia, we visit the Liberty Bell and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

There is often a waiting list for this trip each year. Students find it to be a transformational experience.

Saint's Place, in the Rochester suburb of Pittsford, provides goods, clothes and education to refugees who have come to the United States to escape violence, discrimination and poverty in their native countries.

We partner with the university's Student Success Center on a project in which first-year students gather school supplies for Saint's Place. Several times a semester, SBU students have the opportunity to go to Saint’s Place, learn about the refugee situation in the Rochester area, and help organize household items that are provided to refugee families.

The Robert C. Conroy Memorial Parish Internship Program was established by John, ’58, and Carolyn Connors in 2003 in honor of SBU alumnus and longtime employee Bob Conroy. This is an ecumenical internship program that has the goal of allowing students to explore issues related to their faith and life issues of social justice, peace and the classroom.

Additional information/How to apply

The Mary Yankelovich Endowed Fellowship Program aims to develop leaders dedicated to the transformation of society based on the Franciscan ideas of peace, justice, reconciliation and service.

Mary Yankelovich Fellows, integrating theory and practice, will develop and model the core values of 51±¬ÁÏ â€” discovery, community and respect for the dignity of all persons — and be prepared to undertake a life of humane service.

Additional information/How to apply

We encourage recycling by students and employees with the placement of recycling bins and containers at locations across campus. What gets recycled? You name it: paper, plastic, batteries, ink cartridges, and on and on.

The Arbor Day Foundation has named St. Bonaventure a Tree Campus USA every year since 2010. It signifies that we meet Tree Campus USA’s five standards:

• maintaining a tree advisory committee
• having a campus tree-care plan
• making dedicated annual expenditures for our campus tree program
• holding an Arbor Day observance
• conducting a student service-learning project.

Solean solar electric project

St. Bonaventure saves an estimated $100,000 or more a year on its electric bill thanks to the Solean solar electric project, which involves the placement of hundreds of solar collection panels in an area near the Buffalo Street exit of Interstate 86. 

Campus construction

We adhere to sustainable building design components in the construction and renovation of buildings on campus:

• Ground water is used to help cool the Swan Business Center, Walsh Science Center, and the Friedsam Library's Rare Book addition, reducing the level of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.
• We preserve trees whenever possible to provide shade and reducing cooling loads in warmer months.
• The McGinley-Carney Center, headquarters for the Franciscan Center for Social Concern, was a net-zero construction project, meaning energy savings realized elsewhere on campus, through the use of LED fixtures and other initiatives, more than offsets energy use by the McGinley-Carney Center. The center also uses solar power and technology that recovers heat from the adjacent campus boiler facility.