Ignatian Volunteers pledge two days a week of service for ten months a year (September-June) Volunteers have such diverse backgrounds area include retired lawyers, business owners, teachers, homemakers, physicians, nurses, and people who have worked in the pharmaceutical industry. Volunteers have an enormous impact on the lives of the people they serve and on the nonprofit organizations where they work.
In support of the volunteer experience, Volunteers also participate in a yearlong spiritual program of individual and communal reflection, discussion, and prayer in the Ignatian tradition, growing to understand their experiences in deeply personal ways. Volunteers met individually with a spiritual reflector and they also gather monthly to pray, reflect and share service experiences. To keep travel down and build community, there are three groups in the New York region; New York City, Long Island and Northern New Jersey. Three times a year, the groups get together at a central location for overnight retreats or days or reflection.
Ignatian Volunteers are incredibly generous with their time and talents. Yet our volunteers say over and over again that they receive back so much more than they give. Many volunteers stay in the program three or more years.
Over the past eleven years, Ignatian Volunteers have touched and changed hundreds of lives and have been profoundly changed in return. There are hundreds, if not thousands of potential Ignatian Volunteers in the New York region. Are you one them?
Contact Regional Director, Liz McMahon for more information.
