Spotlights of our volunteers.
I am a volunteer at Peace House in Minneapolis. It is a safe place and a warm place that has been part of this neighborhood for over 40 years. I volunteer on Thursdays. The daily routine provides a breakfast and a hot lunch, a time for community discussion, and time to just be in the […]
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Peace House Community was saddened to learn of Catherine Mamer’s death on Dec. 28. Catherine’s health had been declining for several years, but it was still difficult to imagine PHC without her. Catherine started volunteering in 1986 at the invitation of PHC founder Rose Tillemans herself. Catherine brought energy and compassion to everything she did,
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Some people seem to have an inborn disposition to volunteer. No scientific data exist to substantiate that, but a conversation with Mary Ellen Halverson easily leads to that conclusion. It is not because she recites a long list of service accomplishments. In fact, she’s quite modest about her volunteering, including her years at Peace House.
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In a recent conversation with Dave and Dennie Scott about their experience as Peace House volunteers, the dominant theme was hospitality. It’s not that they framed their reflections explicitly around that word. In fact, they might not have even used it. But their comments about what they do and why they do it bear the
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PHC is thrilled and very fortunate to announce the hiring of our new Volunteer Coordinator Jana Maltby. Jana comes to us with an extensive background in social work and social justice. She has worked with many organizations that serve the same populations as PHC, including St. Anne’s Place, Wayside Recovery Center, People Incorporated, and others.
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Kathleen Zuckerman is an artist by vocation and training so connecting her volunteerism with art is easy. What stands out in how her commitment to Peace House and other organizations underscores key characteristics of the artistic imagination – a keen sense of awareness, an attentiveness to detail, and an abiding curiosity. We tend to describe
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The Peace House Community social media team is a group of talented and dedicated volunteers. We are so fortunate to have them and are grateful for all of their hard work. They keep the PHC website (“peacehousecommunity.org”) and social media sites – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn – updated and lively, which engages our supporters
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PHC: Tell us a little about your professional life. DLG: I am a lawyer by trade – a solo private criminal defense practitioner, mostly representing indigent defendants as their appointed counsel in federal court. Directly after law school I spent some time investigating and documenting human rights abuses in the Mexican criminal justice system. I then clerked for
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