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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 ...
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest started in 1956 with several committed volunteers who built and taught in the newly formed Copper Valley School for Alaska Native and non-Native children. Under the sponsorship of the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the Jesuit Volunteers expanded out of Alaska in the 1960s.
These programs and organizations are working tirelessly to make the lives of those within our community better, and with your help, you can make a difference. Giving back: Where to volunteer in ...
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]
At a Kansas City church, volunteers organized a way station for families released from immigration detention while seeking asylum. The Star was allowed to observe, though the location remains secret.
The Heart of America United Way Volunteer Center sponsors the YVC of Greater Kansas City and gives Battey a desk, phone, secretarial support and credibility. The first 68 diverse Youth Volunteers serve on one of 12 teams doing four week-long projects in the Kansas City area. A Youth Advisory Council is formed and school year service projects begin.
This is a partial list of centres founded worldwide by the Society of Jesus which are directed primarily toward social and economic development for the poor and marginalized.
Jesuit college at Palazzo Camponeschi in L'Aquila (1596–1773), now University of L'Aquila and Church of Santa Margherita Jesuit college in Modena (1602–1773), now Istituto Istruzione Superiore Adolfo Venturi and Church of San Bartolomeo; Jesuit college in Ancona (1605–1773), now Church of the Gesù University of Fermo (1609–1773) [28]