Why we need your help

Walk with JVC Northwest on its journey

Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) Northwest needs your support to make it possible for Jesuit Volunteers (JVs) to work with people who are marginalized in our society: individuals who are homeless; adults with mental disabilities; women suffering domestic abuse; pre-school children through high school students who are at-risk or from economically poor families; and people who are unemployed, uninsured, economically poor, broken and disenfranchised. We need your help to continue to address structurally entrenched poverty and help promote ecological sustainability.

Each and every day, JVC Northwest changes lives in dramatic ways. The JVs who serve and work with those living on the fringes of our communities affect the lives of many of society's most vulnerable people and, in turn, are forever changed by their experiences. Showing respect and offering compassion, the JVs often bring renewed hope and a sense of dignity to people who are suffering. JVs strive to be catalysts for change in our society.

Throughout the region, non-profits are asking us for more JVs to staff needed projects. Non-profit leaders tell us how essential JVs are to providing quality services in their agencies. We must increase the number of individuals we assist - people who experience poverty, hunger, disabilities and abuse. These are the people JVC Northwest supports and who are most in need of your help.

The agencies we serve contribute part of the costs, but JVC Northwest must raise more than half of our budget in private support annually. We rely on individual donations, fund-raising events, grants and appeals to close that gap in funding.

Please consider supporting JVC Northwest with the largest gift you can manage - $100, $250, $500 or more. On behalf of the JVs and the thousands of individuals we serve, thank you for the gift you are able to make.

"They have helped me understand the importance of living without violence for me and my children, now and in our future."
- Client from Proyecto UNICA, an agency that provides counseling, resources, and referral to Spanish speaking victims/survivors of domestic and sexual violence in Portland, OR

"I will never be the same person I was before I stepped foot in Montana, I am stronger, more courageous, more hopeful, and more faith-filled than I was before I began my journey as a Jesuit Volunteer."
- Erin Dorato, JV working at the St. Charles Mission School on the Crow Reservation in Pryor, MT

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