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St. Vincent de Paul is Lane County’s largest nonprofit human services organization, helping over 84,000 people annually. We accomplish our mission in six core areas: Affordable Housing, Emergency Services, Homeless Services, Recycling Programs, Retail Thrift Stores, and Self-Sufficiency Services.
For Keith and Gildon Boyd this Father’s Day will fly by, with Gildon speeding along on his shiny new bicycle and Dad keeping up on a bike he refurbished. Keith says pedaling is almost restful compared with 5-year-old Gildon having his feet on the ground, headed in multiple directions at once.
For a third year a team from Life Technologies has celebrated the firm’s Global Volunteer Day by acquiring, assembling and presenting bicycles to some of the 400 children living in St. Vinnie’s affordable housing. Watch the video to learn a little about Life Tech and experience the excitement and gratitude generated by the team’s generosity and hard work.
By the time most Picnic Supper hosts arrived to decorate their tables, a pirate ship already menaced the horizon, easily identified by the Jolly Roger floating overhead. The Pirates of St. Jude had fired the first salvo in the battle for best decorated Picnic Supper table, and they even brought mermaids and a priest to lead the "Aarrrgh Father."
Coinciding with announcement of a second round of funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to expand sustainable enterprise across the U.S., St. Vincent de Paul was honored on May 16 by a visit from Oregon’s First Lady who's spearheading the State's Prosperity Initiative.
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