Lilly Endowment, Inc.'s primary goal is to identify and nurture a new generation of highly talented and religiously committed leaders for Church and society.

• Help students examine the relationship between their faith and vocational choices by integrating their faith and professional lives.
• Provide opportunities for students to explore Christian ministry as their life's work by attracting talented students into lay and ordained ministry and leadership.
• Enhance the capacity of a school's faculty and staff to teach and mentor students effectively in this arena to strengthen the institutional environment to support and sustain these efforts.
  

The multi-faceted program has the following primary objectives:

• That a core group of highly talented and motivated students, who will participate in the Chaminade Scholar Program (named for Father Chaminade, the founder of the Society of Mary), will develop a deep sense of call or vocation, which will prepare them for a commitment to leadership in their churches and in society.
• That a larger group of undergraduates have opportunities through Christian leadership programs to deepen their sense of call or vocation through intensive and purposeful exploration.
• That all UD undergraduate students, through University-wide programs, will be exposed to and invited to consider a deeper sense of call or vocation in their lives that may guide them in making career and other life choices.
• That the faculty and staff involved in this initiative will, through faculty development programs, deepen the sense of call or vocation in their own lives and will grow in their ability to assist others in the exploration of call or vocation.