Jesuit Volunteer Corps

The Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) is an organization of lay volunteers who volunteer one year or more to community service with poor communities. JVC works in inner city neighborhoods and rural communities in about 36 different cities throughout the U.S. JVC works with the homeless, abused women and children, immigrants and refugees, the mentally ill, people with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses, the elderly, children, and on behalf of other marginalized groups. Jesuit Volunteers (JVs) in the international program that places volunteers in other countries.

Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Formation1956 (1956)
TypeNon-profit corporation
PurposeSocial justice and Volunteer work
Headquarters801 Saint Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
Region served
United States, Chile, Peru, Belize, Tanzania, and Micronesia
Membership
10,000 alumni
President
Tom Chabolla
Volunteers
250
Websitejesuitvolunteers.org
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