Subject: Give Today - Advocate for Stronger Communities
From: "JVC Northwest" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:30:36 -0400 (EDT)

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Advocate.

"Never be afraid to raise your voicefor honesty and truth and compassion against
 injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world . . . would do 
this,

it would change the earth."

--- William Faulkner

So many challenging issues face our country today - growing poverty rates, increased
homelessness, and profound ecological crises - just to name a few. Throughout the
Northwest, many committed Jesuit Volunteers are facing these challenges by providing
life-giving, direct service to thousands of vulnerable men, women, and children 
most affected by these endemic problems.

Make a donation to support the JVs HERE [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=hnfexkcab&et=1108354315216&s=2154&e=001GF1O6EKLk9SvlbD8KSzBToG7hO_e3vHKxVXhrJ2YHtPk7t1xasXfVk9LnfYKtbL-LgmtiVeGS9CWv1HB7L8E_VYmtZDx7tOopSwZw_BQmlavHwuRx_Tj6Ifafd7GOUomhPQNRUPeW6wah-EDivETzezL15LT2_jpS71l66Dpc9vqvLEOdXpiMMlLoPYhb4Wtp5cz0UUrZbsoFd7QM1DQxclY0RurOXinoqwhOaPEsA_SHtdEJVVvo5ei3BwPQn4y1RFJzpju-_EF0bcHeRGRrAOMTXMjPGo7xRRrNq3Permw3C34gAM4AtsNHPaWHmxWFzBM3SoYWxcGnsyxbFApUA==]

Several JVs, however, are confronting our nation's challenges in a different, yet
vitally important way - they are serving as advocates, raising their voices to promote
the fundamental, structural changes needed to make these issues a thing of the past.

Naivasha Dean is a Jesuit Volunteer currently serving in Portland, Oregon. She serves
at Partnership for Safety and Justice (PSJ), an agency which brings together those
people most directly affected by crime to advocate for a system that is just and
 that more effectively builds safer, healthier communities.  Below, Naivaisha shares
what serving as an advocate has meant to her:

I chose an advocacy position because I wanted to have an insight into how public
 policy gets made and how to make structural change. My eyes have been opened to
 injustices in the system that I didn't know existed, and I feel that I am slowly
learning the tools to actually address them constructively. Advocacy allows me to
try to influence these issues democratically through the social systems and institutions
that are in place.

. . . I enjoy being more educated about these issues that directly affect our public
safety and our budget crisis, and being equipped with the language to enlighten 
others about them. . . . it is great to feel that I am contributing to making changes
that will help untold numbers of people. I might never meet them, but I will know
that I have made life easier and safer for them.

Naivasha will send this project made by PSJ community members
to legislators to advocate for more funds for

community-based addiction treatment programs.

You can help Naivasha and many other JVs serving as advocates raise their voices
 against systemic social and ecological injustices. By donating to JVC Northwest,
you will help cover the costs of housing, food, health insurance, and utilities 
of Naivasha and other JVs advocating for change, as well as enable so many other
 JVs to provide much-needed service to those living on the margins of society.

Raise your voice - donate to JVC Northwest today.

With hope for change,

Jeanne Haster

Executive Director
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Your generosity and support will help change the earth.

Visit www.jvcnorthwest.org [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=hnfexkcab&et=1108354315216&s=2154&e=001GF1O6EKLk9QPW-xSoMAhU-EL3Yg0GRpbvl43yrVbhKBAL-fQRLmbQikb8vPIRuISyYSrP5kCaTa7325rO3dwv8U14cZwWCCeIisUXMKi9nW1Ko5r2u_1nw==]
to donate online

Or mail donations to:

Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest

PO Box 3928

Portland, OR 97208

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