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Community Partners: Sarah A. Koski
Welcome to Eugene If you’ve worked in the nonprofit world in and around Lane County, Oregon for any period, then it is a pretty good bet that you’ve heard the name Sarah Koski. She’s been involved at various levels of human services across the...
St. Vinnie’s celebrates new Cottage Grove store with sale
COTTAGE GROVE, ORE. — On Thursday, March 14, St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County (SVdP) will open its new St. Vinnie’s store location at 910 Row River Road in Cottage Grove. With 15,485 square feet of retail space and 4,230 square feet for...
SVdP recycles 22 million pounds of waste in 2023
A History of Second Chances Since its incorporation in 1955, St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County (SVdP) has been dedicated to diverting material from the waste stream and turning it into a sustainable revenue stream to support the neediest...
How Michael Williams got “kicked out of homelessness”
Arrival in Oregon “They kicked me out of homelessness,” Michael Williams likes to say when explaining how St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County (SVdP) helped elevate him from chronic homelessness into supported housing. Michael first arrived...
St. Vinnie’s returns to Cottage Grove with new store
Early this spring, SVdP will cut the ribbon on a new retail location in Cottage Grove, Ore. The latest “St. Vinnie’s” will be our first new location since 2022, when we opened the doors at 888 Garfield St. in Eugene. It will be the 14th and...
Emergency response: A conversation with Egan volunteer John E. Helmer
On January 12, 2024, a destructive ice storm brought extensive damage and disruption to the Willamette Valley. During that time, the St. Vincent de Paul-administered Egan Warming Centers program activated in response to low temperatures and...
Perseverance after loss: Kristen Raffin comeback story
When Kristen Raffin arrived at St. Vincent de Paul’s (SVdP) 410 Garfield Safe Sleep Site in July 2021, she’d already been homeless for more than two years. She returned to her hometown of Eugene, Ore., after nine years in Colorado where she studied...
SVdP opens emergency winter shelter through Jan. 17
Following three consecutive nights of activations, Egan Warming Centers concluded normal operations on Tuesday, Jan. 16, as nighttime temperatures leading into Wednesday morning were forecast to rise back above the program’s operating threshold of...