FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

“It’s easy. I promise” writes Jayne Cravens a long time advocate of low cost technologies for non-profits. The following documents how she presented live on-line between Germany and Australia and why it may be of use to the Vincentian family.

We have just received notice of an exciting new blog devoted to Political Charity and Vincentian Formation. The commission on Charism and Cultures and the Asia Pacific Regional Formators have been grappling with these concepts for over a decade and have now mounted a blog to expand the conversation.

Ministering Together, based in Ohio USA, has launched a new effort to encourage bridge-building among Catholic agencies. The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul is part of a collaborative effort being made in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida USA. Read the article; go to the Web site of Ministering Together.

(This marks the first in a series of 10 Vincentian family projects that will be described by Fr. Robert Maloney, Chair of the Systemic Change initiative in the Vincentian Family.)
Near Buckingham Palace, around the corner from the seat of the British government there waits a welcoming face, a listening ear, a hot bed, and a [...]

Joan Mahon, who has provided updates for the Vincentian family about the earthquake in Pisco, was the subject of a “Neighbors” feature this week in the Bradenton Herald. photo: Grant Jefferies, Bradenton Herald Read the story.

At their September meeting in Matola, African provincials of the Daughters of Charity received an update about DREAM, (Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition). A brief summary of the presentation and links to news about the project may be found on this Web page.

Funded partly by the Sisters of Charity of Convent Station, a Spanish-language site rich in resources to address the needs of those ministering in the Hispanic community has been launched at Fordham University. Read Fordham’s press release and check out Isidoro, named for St. Isidore, regarded by some as the Internet’s patron saint.

Unless there isn’t enough of it or a health crisis causes reconsideration of diet, most people don’t spend much time thinking about food. But hunger and health — our own and that of the increasingly stressed land — are reasons to think about changing the systems that bring food to our tables. The Daughters of [...]

Commission for Promoting Systemic Change
Strategies for helping the poor emerge from poverty
Five Reflections for the Vincentian Family - September 27, 2007
Recommended by the international heads of the Vincentian Family
gathered for their annual meeting in Rome
1. The great example: Chatillon-les-Dombes
2. Vincent and Systemic Change
3. The person [...]

Lisa Bright, the Coordinator for the Vincentian Family participation in World Youth Day, has updated the official site with decriptions of various pre-Youth Day pilgrimages and prices for registration at World Youth Day.. The site has a link to download their official brochure in pdf format.

 WHY A VIRTUAL MARCH? Catholic Charities Directors from communities across the country will be in Washington on April 26th to meet with legislators about hunger in our nation and what Congress can do about it. At the same time, Catholic Charities USA will be holding a briefing for Members of Congress and their staff on [...]

As a follow-up to the recent item about Sr. Brenda’s Thrift Shop having surplus clothes that could be used elsewhere in the world I am happy to report that another Daughter has claimed the clothes for the poor in Venezuela.”John, the Daughters of Charity of Sanare attend to 100 interns (from 12-18 yrs old) 20 [...]

Jayne Craven write… Think that your organization needs special software in order for people in different locations, or even at different organizations, to work on the same document or file? Or that everyone must have exactly the same software to work on the same document or file?
Think again.The vast majority of mission-based organizations [...]

Sr. Brenda Fitz, DC has oversupply of clothes that could be helpful in other areas of the world.”I’m a DC working at Catholic Charities in Effingham, IL. I’m writing to learn of famvin members who work in areas of the world where there is a need for clothing and shoes. Second Hand Rose, Catholic Charities’ [...]

Vincentian Pastor in New Orleans gets professional help from DePaul University organization that studies issues of land-use and community planning.New Orleans trip to repair, rebuild
by Jake Malooley
Staff Writer
The Public Services program, in association with the DePaul Chaddick Institute, has announced it will lead a week-long December field study visit to storm-ravaged New Orleans to aid [...]