IVC Stories
IVC National Capital Area Member Profile: Rose McGruddy, Just Neighbors
Just Neighbors, an IVC partner agency, provides high-quality immigration legal services to low-income immigrants, asylees and refugees in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia. IVC’s Rose McGruddy offers ESOL and Spanish translation services for clients at Just...
A Contemplation on Spiritual Surrender
Central to living a rich spiritual life with God is developing an intimate personal relationship with him. This requires that we accept that we have been created in God’s love, that we are totally dependent on that love for our very existence, that he has a plan and...
Merton and Me—A Living Trinity
“I would have to guess that for most people their first encounter with Thomas Merton is rarely their last encounter with Thomas Merton. Once he takes an interest in you he seems rather unwilling to let go. And if and when you try to escape, it seems that he will...
In Memoriam – Jim Kelley
Jim Kelley, who served IVC for over twenty years as a service corps member, regional director and regional council member, and who oversaw the expansion of IVC into Northern Virginia, died November 1 in Fairfax, Va. He was 86.
Ignatian Volunteers Create Sustainable Solutions for Nonprofits
The challenges created by the pandemic also revealed an opportunity: With partner agencies pivoting to virtual programming, IVC no longer needed to be constrained by a geographic footprint. This opened the door to service for…
IVC Philadelphia/South Jersey Begins Its 2022 Program Year!
Why join IVC when you could just go volunteer someplace? The answer to that question was on full display during September’s retreat at A.D.R.O.P. (Augustinian Defenders of the Rights of the Poor, an IVC placement in South Philadelphia), when 22 members of our Corps...
IVC Philadelphia/South Jersey Member Profile: Peter Matthews, Delaware County Literacy Council
IVC Philadelphia/South Jersey Member Profile: Peter Matthews, Delaware County Literacy Council Not every IVC volunteer commitment ends up being virtually a second career. However, Peter Matthews’ 16 years at Delaware County Literacy Council has made him an integral...
Congratulations to Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Christine Grady, and all Evening of Gratitude 2022 Honorees!
On September 18th, the Ignatian Volunteer Corps honored Dr. Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Christine Grady, Ph.D., Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, with the inaugural Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Award for Exemplary Public Service at IVC’s annual Evening of Gratitude.
Meet our IVC New Orleans Regional Council!
Pictured from left to right, top row to bottom row are: Mary Baudouin, Provincial Assistant for Justice & Ecology, Jesuits of the U.S. Central and Southern Province Mat Grau, retired Director of Alumni Relations, Jesuit High School Leah Grau (Chair), retired...