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Fr. Jack Morris, SJ Memorial Award JV Stories of Impact Annual Report A year of service. A world of difference. FALL 2014 The Newsletter of Focus Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest Sneak Peek JV Stories of Impact Annual Report Call for Nominations: Fr. Jack Morris, SJ Memorial Award 2 FALL 2014 Volume 59, Number 1 WHAT A DiffEREncE WE arE maKinG! "What's your impact*?" is the theme of this Jesuit Volunteer (JV) year. The asterisk adds: Show Up, Listen, Act, Reflect, Repeat. The theme represents a strong Ignatian tradition of "praxis," acted upon reflection, reflected upon action. We are asking the JVs to consider the effects of their year of service in both how they make an impact and how they are impacted. This edition of Focus will highlight some of the significant ways JVs and JV EnCorps members are making a difference for those with whom they serve. Our volunteers are important change-makers in the lives of those who experience marginaliza- Jeanne Haster tion and suffering. They are helping to build critical infrastructure and resources to increase the capacity of our partner agencies. They are engaging at-risk students and increasing academic performance. They are providing health care for those who otherwise would not be treated. And perhaps most significantly, our volunteers are creating social capital among the people they serve, instilling self-worth, dignity, care, concern, trust, empathy, and a sense of connection. Former JVs carry our four values of community, simple living, social and ecological justice, and spirituality in their hearts and are changing the world in all manner of ways. As health professionals, nonprofit leaders, public servants in government leader- ship and service, teachers and education administrators, religious leaders, environmental scientists and specialists, and in count- less other professions. Former JVs carry out our values in their work and in their community and church involvement. They are building strong families, and in many cases encouraging their children to do a year of volunteer service. We are excited to have second generation and even third generation JVs serving with us. The impact of JVC Northwest has spread through the decades. Marking our beginnings from 1956 at Copper Valley School in Alaska, the JVC movement spread from the Oregon Province of Jesuits to Jesuit provinces across the country. Now two organizations, JVC Northwest (where it all began!) and JVC in Baltimore, promote the mission throughout the United States. Jesuit Volunteer organizations are also found worldwide in Jesuit provinces. JVC Northwest has been the model for the founding of numerous faith-based volunteer programs. We were part of the impetus for national service programs like Peace Corps and AmeriCorps. As an AmeriCorps National Direct program for four Our theme for the 2014-15 service year years, we are delighted to be part of the 20th Anniversary celebration of this great national service organization! JVC Northwest is creating ripples of change throughout the Northwest, the country, and the world. We ask for your con- tinued support and prayers as we learn from those we serve and embrace the transformative spirit of generations of volunteers! Jeanne Haster, Executive Director OUR MISSION STATEMENT Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest engages women and men in a transforming experience of full-time volunteer service. Jesuit Volunteers serve for a year or more in solidarity with persons living on the margins of society and with fragile ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. Rooted for over fifty years in the Jesuit Catholic tradition emphasizing spiritual openness and depth, Jesuit Volunteers in the Northwest examine and act on the causes of social and environmental injustice to promote peace and structural change. Jesuit Volunteers live in communities that commit to simple living embodying a healing and sustainable presence on the Earth. Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest • P.O. Box 3928 • Portland, OR 97208 p 503.335.8202 • f 503.249.1118 • [email protected] • www.jvcnorthwest.org FALL 2014 Volume 59, Number 1 3 every one of us reading Focus . WHAT BOarD UPDATE IS OUR IMPACT? As I begin my final year as JUNE COOLEY, BOARD CHAIR Board Chair, I will be actively thinking about how I can challenge myself to make August 10, 2014 a greater impact. It is 12:15 A.M., yes A.M., and I can’t sleep, nor do My husband Craig and I desire I remember much of the drive home from the 2014-15 JVC to make a difference with our giv- Northwest Orientation at Camp Adams. My mind is full of the ing and JVC Northwest is one of the top hope, dreams, and joy that filled the gym during the Missioning June Cooley three nonprofits that we support. We of these bright, beautiful, and authentic adults committing to have found an easy way to give back that makes sense to us by putting JVC Northwest in our wills. But we How can we ask want to do more. this challenge of our How can we all make a difference — really do it, not just think about it? Reflect back on your year of service as a JV, or your Jesuit Volunteers and not ask time spent as a supporter, staff, Board, or family member, and try it of ourselves? to recall those feelings of hope and joy, that sense that you were actively making a difference. To feel that joy again, to feel that youthful time of our lives — that feeling can be captured again their year of service. This was my fifth Orientation, and my sec- through giving! ond as Board Chair of JVC Northwest. This is the time of our lives for us to MAKE AN IMPACT. Something different happened to me this year. Maybe it What is yours? I challenge you to deepen your impact on JVC was the four prior years combined that enveloped the feelings I Northwest today. was having, maybe it was the joy of raising Jeanne up during the ceremony because she has been so selfless for the past 10 years Peace and thoughtful giving, as our Executive Director, or maybe it was this year’s theme, June “WHAT’S YOUR IMPACT?”— what a challenge! I thought about this during the Missioning Liturgy as my eyes scanned this vibrant assembly and in my mind I kept repeating, “How can we ask this challenge of our Jesuit Volunteers and not ask it of ourselves?” “It's not how much we give As supporters, former Jesuit Volunteers, former Board but how much love we put into giving.” Members, former staff members, parents of JVs and former JVs, and – Mother Teresa JVC NORTHWEST STAFF Helen Pitts, JV EnCorps Seattle Gerald Cobb, SJ Karen Beal, JV EnCorps Program Manager Program Coordinator June Cooley, Chair Diane Blankenship, Business Manager Amy Potthast, JV Program Manager Kieran Curley* Carolyn Chu, Program Coordinator* Zach Reuter, Outreach and Mary Doherty* Events Coordinator Christie Costello, Managing Editor, Bryan Francesconi, Secretary* Recruitment & Marketing Manager* Matt Salazar, Program Coordinator* Thomas Greene Chloe Eberhardt, Program Coordinator Moryah Schindler, Program Coordinator* Jeanne Haster, Ex Officio* Elizabeth Edwards, Business Assistant Hilary Titus, AmeriCorps Paul Janowiak, SJ* Jeanne Haster, Executive Director* Administrative Assistant* William Larkins Mary Hegel, AmeriCorps Program Manager* Rachel Wagner, Program Assistant Gabrielle Nguyen, SP Whitney Johnson, Development Coordinator Stephen White, Program Coordinator Barbara Scharff Sally Koch, Program Coordinator James Wykowski, Recruiter* Kathleen Swift Laurie Laird, Associate Director 2014-2015 BOARD OF DIRECTORS David Thompson, Vice Chair Martha McElligott, Administrative Christine Auerbach Assistant to the ED Joseph Barr, Treasurer *denotes Former Jesuit Volunteer James Buck* 4 FALL 2014 Volume 59, Number 1 snack after school instead of potato chips. I treasure this time of JV STOriES OF IMPacT silent reflection as an opportunity to be reminded of why I chose to do a year of service. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to have The 2014-15 JV service year theme, "What's Your Impact?", asks been a small part of this impactful work. JVs to reflect in multiple ways on their service with those on the margins of society: what is the impact they have on the local com- munity in which they serve, and what is the impact that same Building Community, local community has on them? Breaking Isolation The following stories are a glimpse into the impact the CHRIS VauDO, CLIENT SErvicES SPECIALIST 2013-14 JVs made in their day to day service this past year. Look ALasKAN AIDS ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION, ANCHORAGE, AK for reflections on how JVs are being impacted during their year in During his JV year, Chris provided services to support individu- our spring edition of Focus. als living with HIV/AIDS and/or their families in maximizing their independence, as well as managed the food program and assisted Increasing Access to Fresh Produce with HIV prevention efforts. KATIE SNYDER, ACCESS TO RESOURCES ASSISTANT For several months, I’ve created weekly events for our clients to ST. MARGAREt’S SHELTER, CATHOLIC CHARITIES, SPOKANE, WA participate in. Our events ranged from art gallery viewings to In this position, Katie directly served women and children at St. walks, movie screenings to greenhouse visits, crochet lessons to Margaret’s shelter, as well as other Catholic Charities programs, to card games. Despite interest among our clients at the beginning support people’s access to healthy foods through social enterprise of the year, it took a while to get steady attendance at the events. and food system capacity building. My first major success was our Easter egg coloring day. This winter, a fellow JV and I recognized a need to provide fresh Over a dozen clients and staff members gathered, compared to a produce specifically for clients in permanent supportive hous- typical three to five, with conversation and laughter abundant in ing units.
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