IVC Philadelphia/South Jersey recruits and supports committed, competent, and caring Ignatian Volunteers for community programs serving vulnerable populations throughout the region. Volunteers work two days a week at partner agencies offering direct service to children, families, and adults who are materially poor.
In the City of Brotherly Love, Ignatian Volunteers take the human contact and relationship aspect of their work very seriously.
"It has changed me," said one volunteer. “You get a satisfaction when you're helping people. It makes me appreciate the things I have and it gives me more energy to give back where I can make a difference."
Ignatian Volunteers take part in National Community Day
Anne Tague, Fred De Rose, and Anne Marie Campbell prepare food in the kitchen
On Saturday, April 16, 2011, eight IVC Philadelphia/S Jersey volunteers prepared and served lunch to homeless men who come to Old St. Joseph’s Church in Society Hill in Philadelphia for spiritual as well as physical nourishment. Ignatian Volunteers participated in the 4th annual National Community Day under the auspices of St. Joseph’s University. Hundreds of enthusiastic students from SJU manned volunteer sites across the Delaware Valley region. Rich Brennan, site leader for Old St. Joseph’s, arranged the visit from the “Hawk who never dies!”