Partners Against Poverty Receives Grant

 
 
  Jim Ryan, Director of the Gateway Vincentian Volunteers program and Coordinator of the Partners, accepts a grant from Sr. Cathy Vetter, CCVI, Board member of the Incarnate Word Foundation
 

On January 15, 2003, the cooperative consortium known as Partners Against Poverty received a grant of $35,000 from the Incarnate Word Foundation.

Jim Ryan, Director of the Gateway Vincentian Volunteers program and Coordinator of the Partners, gratefully accepted the grant funds on behalf of the Partner organizations from Sr. Cathy Vetter, CCVI, at a ceremony held at the Palm House in St. Louis. The grant will be used to help support program development.

The Partners Against Poverty is comprised of St. Catherine Labouré Parish (Pastor Jim Cormack, CM), St. Francis de Sales Parish (Pastor Mike Joyce, CM), St. Vincent DePaul Parish (Pastor Joe Williams, CM), Guardian Angel Settlement Association (Executive Director Ed Murphy, CM, and Director of Social Services Jerry Morales, CM), Notre Dame Elementary School, and the Gateway Vincentian Volunteers program. The purpose of the Partners is: Through collaboration, the Partner organizations will work towards the better use of resources in the 63118 and 63104 zip codes so that the people living in those areas who are in need of assistance will be better served by the Partner organizations.

(Many poor people live in these two areas of South St. Louis, and a Vincentian presence already exists there in two parishes, the volunteer program, and at Guardian Angel Settlement.) The Partners are also committed to collaboration with other organizations in the area that share the goals of the partnership.

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