DID YOU KNOW?

JVC Northwest places between 100 to 140 volunteers in Northwest service organizations each year.
Jesuit Volunteers (JVs) have provided more than 50 years of service to people in need throughout the Northwest.
The first JVs served at the Copper Valley School in Alaska in 1956.
JVs are placed in more than 90 service agencies in 21 Northwest communities each year.
There are more than 12,000 current and former volunteers nationwide who have served over the past five decades. More than 6,000 of those volunteers served in the Northwest.
The Northwest is the birthplace of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) Northwest, which was established in 1956 when the first Jesuit Volunteers (JVs) began serving in rural Alaska. Today, volunteers from JVC Northwest work in culturally diverse communities, with Native American, Native Alaskan and rural Hispanic people in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Each year, JVC Northwest attracts between volunteers who share the values of community, simple living, social justice and spirituality. They come to the Northwest to serve individuals with economic, cultural and health needs, addressing issues surrounding poverty, medical and legal assistance, homelessness, addiction and mental illness in rural and urban settings.