ANNUAL PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES

  Freezin' 4 Reasons 1st Quarter Fund Raising Event
Raising awareness and funding for homeless families in our service area. The funds are used to provide immediate shelter for homeless families, or to ensure shelter for families being evicted or threatened with shut off of utilities. Population(s) served * Homeless Families – keeping from eviction or utilities shut off

Families In Need               $10,000 GOAL      Area served:  Marinette and Peshtigo Cities and Towns of Peshtigo, Grover, Porterfield, WI

  Back to School 3rd Quarter Fund Raising Event
We provide area children living in families of need with school supplies and new set of clothes and shoes for the first day of school.   2023 we provided these B2S items to 142 families with 323 students!  

Children and youth (0-19 years)       $20,000 GOAL   Area served:  Marinette and Peshtigo Cities and Towns of Peshtigo, Grover, Porterfield, WI

            Christmas Gift Basket 4th Quarter Fund Raising Event
We solicit Community Adopters for area families in need with children 0-19.  We ask the Adopters to purchase Christmas presents of need and a couple of Santa's Wish items for each child in the families in need in our community.  We also collect family games from our Catholic Parishioners and local residents.  We add donated books and family games to the family box!  Each child's gifts are in a separate bag and the children's bags are placed into a large Family bag for distribution.

Children and youth (0-19 years)Families   $10,000 GOAL  Area served:  Marinette and Peshtigo Cities and Towns of Peshtigo, Grover, Porterfield, WI
                                                           
                                                      Twinning with our St Ponsiano Uganda SSVdP Conference in Lugazi Diocese
Self-Sufficient Events - Bake Sales held three times a year at STAA Schools (Elementary and High School) as well as after weekend masses at Holy Family Parish. Also sweep at InVenture North business parking lot four times a year. These two activities and a member donation of approximately $200 each Quarter fund our twinning donations of $500 during each of the four quarters of the year. St Ponsiano Vincentians purchase prosthetics, wheelchairs, roofing, tarps, dig wells or latrines, food, clothing, micro-loans, etc. to the people of the Lugazi Diocese, which they call FINS (Friends In Need of Services), that our St Ponsiano SSVdP Youth Conference serves. Budget $2,000 - Covered by $150 each Quarter and around $350 from each Bake Sale and St Joseph Conference Member Donations of around $200 per Quarter.
                                                      Send $2,000 Annual to St. Ponsiano SSVdP Youth Conference in Lugazi Diocese - Uganda
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOR OVER 105 years - St Joseph SSVdP Conference has been assisting Marinette and Peshtigo families and individuals in need of Basic Needs:  rent/mortgage, heat and electricity, water, car repairs/gasoline, medications, work clothes and shoes, bus tickets, mattresses, etc.
 
Please be Generous! Donations are tax deductible. 
 
May the Peace of the Risen Christ be with you, 
 
David Harper, Conference Spiritual Advisor                         
Society of St Vincent de Paul
St Joseph SSVdP Conference

          I/We pledge support in the following amount:
 
  $25       $50        $100         $250        $500       $1000   or $_____________
 
     My/Our contribution is enclosed – checks made Payable to SJC-SSVdP
   Will make monthly payments over next 12 months until rescinded.
   My employer will match my contribution- Employer___________________________________
   I wish to be an anonymous donor.
   Monthly Automated credit or debit card in amount of $_________.  Click on DONATE button above right hand corner!! 
 
 NAME_______________________________________    Home Telephone: _____________
  
Address_______________________________________________________________________________
 
City   _______________________      State       ____                                           Zip Code ________________________
 
This gift made   ð   In Memory  of________________________ OR     ð   In Honor of ________________________________
 
The St Joseph SSVdP Conference - Marinette holds a certificate as a WI Charitable Organization and is a 501(c) (3) tax-exempt organization. 
 
Send donation and form to St Joseph Conference – Marinette WI of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul:
 
SJC-SSVdP
P.O. Box 563
Marinette Wi 54143-0563
 
NOTE:  We are a Tri City Area United Way PARTNER Agency; therefore, your employee contribution can be designated to:
                                              “SJC-SSVdP”    –   St Joseph Conference - Marinette  WI of the Society of St Vincent de Paul