"My life has been blessed: years of good work, a wonderful family,
good friends. Yet in my heart
there is a desire to do something more with my life."
The Ignatian Volunteer Corps (IVC) provides men and women, aged 50 and greater, opportunities to serve others – to address social injustice – and to transform lives. IVC matches the talents of capable Volunteers with the greatest social needs of our time.
IVC works in partnership with hundreds of Service Sites. These nonprofit organizations provide Ignatian Volunteers with substantive work to serve individuals who have slipped through this country’s safety net. Hundreds of Service Sites are on waiting lists to get an Ignatian Volunteer.
Volunteers are supported in their Christian faith by IVC’s unique spiritual reflection program. Through their caring service and the relationships they build, Volunteers are creating a more just society.
“I think my most important work began after I retired,
when I joined IVC.”
“For me, IVC has been the way that I continued a life of service
– and I have help in finding the deeper meaning
in what I am doing.”
