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Kreutz founded the Jesuit Volunteers Philippines Foundation, Inc. (JVP) in 1980. The JVP was formed with the mission of assisting underserved communities in rural areas of the Philippines. Its members are composed of new college graduates and young professionals. [3] [8] [9] It is the longest-running domestic-volunteer-sending program in the ...
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) is an organization of lay volunteers who volunteer one year or more to community service with poor communities. JVC works in inner city neighborhoods and rural communities in about 36 different cities throughout the U.S. [1] JVC works with the homeless, abused women and children, immigrants and refugees, the mentally ill, people with HIV/AIDS and other ...
The Jesuit relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 ; the original French, Latin, and Italian texts, with English translations and notes
His call for increased efforts on behalf of the poor and "to reform structures which cause or perpetuate their oppression" prompted coverage of the organization's activism, including, according to the New York Times, "a wide range of projects in antipoverty, legal aid, voter registration, housing and community organization." [31]
A Jesuit Volunteer Corps house in Santa Clara, California, is named Casa Pedro Arrupe; A school in the Philippines, the Pedro Arrupe Academy. The neighbourhood partnership program named the Arrupe House at Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio; The "Arrupe Scholars" scholarship program at John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio [33]
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany covers the Capital District (Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, and Saratoga counties), as well as Warren, Washington, Greene, Columbia, Schoharie, Otsego, Delaware, Fulton, Montgomery, southern Herkimer, and extreme southeastern Hamilton counties in New York state. In these fourteen counties, there are over ...
Masterson was born on December 17, 1910, in Brooklyn, [1] the son of physician John J. Masterson, who later became president of the Medical Society of the State of New York. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was educated by Jesuits, earning a bachelor's degree at Woodstock College in 1932 and a master's at Georgetown University in 1933.
Over the past 65 years, over 12,000 individuals have served as Jesuit Volunteers through JVC and JVC Northwest, with more than 7,000 of those serving in the Northwest. [1] Between 1974 and 1980, Jesuit Volunteer Corps established new chapters as it expanded beyond the Northwest: International, South, Southwest, East, and Midwest.