For Volunteers, Mercy Home Brings Careers Into Focus
Later this summer, there will be some new faces around Mercy Home as a new crop of MercyWorkers descends upon our campuses. Fresh out of college, they will commit to one year of service in the hopes of...
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MercyWorks Closing Ceremony
In Mercy Home’s Hay Campus Chapel last Thursday night, family, friends and co-workers joined this year’s thirteen MercyWorks volunteers for the MercyWorks closing ceremony, a celebration of their year...
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New MercyWorks Class Reflects on Year Ahead at Opening Ceremony
As Fr. Scott Donahue addressed the sixteen new 2012-2013 MercyWorks volunteers and their families on Thursday evening, he raised a big question: “What is the meaning of life?” For these sixteen...
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To a Prospective MercyWorks Volunteer
My name is Dani Shain and I am the Coordinator of the MercyWorks Volunteer Program. One of the most exciting parts of my job is traveling around the country to various universities to attend post...
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MercyWorks Shares Professional Development Expertise
At the Catholic Volunteer Network’s annual National Conference, coworkers from volunteer programs, campus ministers and other representatives come together to share their expertise, to participate in...
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Mercy Home Hosts Professional Transition Workshop
Recently, Mercy Home hosted the Chicago Area Service Programs Professional Transition Workshop, designed to help prepare volunteers as they begin to think about their next steps after their year of...
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Q&A with a MercyWorker, Part I: Life at Mercy Home
Every school year, 14+ college graduates volunteer full-time at Mercy Home through MercyWorks. With the 2012-2013 MercyWorks year ending June 28, one of our MercyWorkers, Colleen, sat down to sum up a...
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Q&A with a MercyWorker, Part II: Community and Personal Growth
One of our MercyWorkers, Colleen, recently sat down for a Q&A about life at Mercy Home and her volunteer year. In Part I, she talked about working with Mercy Home’s 11-to-14-year-old boys.read more
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MercyWorks Volunteers Reflect and Look Forward
Last week, the MercyWorks volunteers traveled to Camp Dewan for their End of Year retreat. The volunteers reflected on their work with the young people of Mercy Home and their time in community with...
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Tearful Goodbyes at MercyWorks Closing Ceremony
It was a year of joys and challenges, learning and faith, laughter and work for the 16 MercyWorkers who just finished their MercyWorks year of service.Friends, family, and coworkers gathered to...
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Alex Kotlowitz stops by for Q&A with MercyWorkers about poverty in Chicago
Alex Kotlowitz is a big name among our MercyWorks volunteers. Kotlowitz’s 1991 biography There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, a book about two boys who...
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Matt's MercyWorks Reflection
Matt, a Boston College graduate, served with MercyWorks in 2009-2010. He worked with our 11-17 year old young men in Bosco Home. Matt went on to receive his Master’s in Social Service Administration...
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Mercy Home Bids Volunteers Farewell
“It’s with mixed emotions that we gather,” Fr. Scott said, “but it is in the spirit of joy, and the spirit of Christ.”Fr. Scott addressed a group of coworkers, families, and friends who gathered to...
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One of the Best Years of Your Life
The MercyWorks Opening Ceremony last Thursday evening brought together a truly special group of people: Mercy Home’s newest class of MercyWorks volunteers, their siblings, parents and friends, and...
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