You know that immediate sinking, twisting feeling in the pit of your stomach when you realize you’ve lost something really important? Yeah, that’s the worst. And precisely the feeling I experienced this past weekend when I opened my wallet and knew without even looking that my driver’s license had vanished somewhere within the greater Chicago […]

By: Erica Stewart, Recruiter When running from city to city and university to university, sometimes I don’t take enough time to appreciate what I am thankful for. It’s important to balance all the activity with some time of gratitude and reflection. My experience traveling around the country has helped me make the following list of […]

By Kate Flannery, CVN Communications Department San Diego, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Los Angeles, Haiti, Peru—the conglomeration of places former Augustinian Volunteer Jeanette Gonzalez has visited and served within since her undergrad days at Loyola Marymount University. Gonzalez has done a lot in a short time. Four immersion trips in four years to post-civil war […]

By Caitlin Baummer, CVN AmeriCorps Program Assistant   It’s that time of year again! All around the country, new CVN AmeriCorps Members are joining with their communities, Program Directors and Site Supervisors to learn the in’s and out’s of National Service and kick off their AmeriCorps year. Here’s what we found out about a few of our […]

By: Catherine Scallen, CVN Recruitment Associate     I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect when I had my first phone interview with Jon and Pete at Good Shepherd Volunteers (GSV), but I obviously wasn’t expecting to chat for over two hours. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have had that venti coffee and that huge bottle of […]