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Collection Overview
Title: Edmundite Mission Corps, 1992-2004
Predominant Dates:1996-2004
ID: SSE 16/SSE 16
Extent: 1.0 Linear Feet
Arrangement: Arranged alpha-numerically into 9 series; Administration; Americorps; Colleges; Financial; Grants; Mission Sites; Newsletters; Personnel; Publications.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection includes documentation and administrative paperwork pertaining to the Americorps/EMC service volunteer program. It includes volunteer applications, contracts, job descriptions and evaluations; mission site information and resources; EMC office correspondence and administration; EMC newsletters, religious and community-living developmental resources, and various collected publications and journals. Also included are a plaque, banner, and scrapbook. The volunteer personnel files included in this collection are only a partial collection, and the earliest personnel file is dated 1996.
Collection Historical Note
The Edmundite Mission Corps (EMC) was founded in 1992 by the Society of Saint Edmund as a year-long volunteer program for college graduates, engaging in ministry among the poor in the African-American Community of the South. Serving the communities of Selma, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana. Corps members worked directly within the communities as teachers and social workers in schools, parishes, state and private organizations, and Edmundite programs which addressed the housing, health, nutrition and educational needs of the poor in those communities. Volunteers lived together, embracing a simple lifestyle in a Christian community to gain a greater understanding of the needs of the poor, and a deeper spiritual commitment to the Church’s mission of promoting social justice, as well as fostering one’s own spirituality.
The EMC existed from 1992-2004. It ceased when financial considerations combined with the difficulty of keeping a core group of volunteers made the program unsustainable.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Saint Michael's College Archives & Special Collections
Related Materials:
SSE 6.8 Local Administration. Southern Missions
SSE 12 Bishop Perry Middle School
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 1
- Folder 1: Administration Alumni Addresses
- Folder 2: Administration Annual Report 1999-2000
- Folder 3: Administration Edmundite Personnel Directories
- Folder 4: Administration Forms-Blank
- Folder 5: Administration Recruitment Fairs 2003-2004
- Folder 6: Administration Retreats, Reunions, Ceremonies
- Folder 7: Administration Year-end Volunteer Questionnaires
- Folder 8: Americorps 1998-2001 Volunteer Administration
- Folder 9: Americorps 1999-2001 Member Survey Results
- Folder 10: Americorps 2001 Volunteers-Reduced-Part-time
- Folder 11: Americorps 2002-2004 Volunteer/Program Admin.
- Folder 12: Colleges Short-Term Volunteer Info/Correspondence/Schedules
- Folder 13: Financial Budgets 1999-2004
- Folder 14: Grants 2002-04 Edmundite Mission Corps/Heifer/YMIA
- Folder 15: Mission Sites Directions
- Folder 16: Mission Sites New Orleans-Bishop Perry MIddle School
- Folder 17: Mission Sites Selma Habitat for Humanity
- Folder 18: Mission Sites Selma Youth Development Center
- Folder 19: Mission Sites Site Visits Bishop Perry Middle School
- Folder 20: Mission Sites Volunteer Requests-Selma
- Folder 21: Mission Sites Vredenberg "Leadership Now"
- Folder 22: Newsletters Edmundite Mission Corps Alumni Newsletters
- Folder 23: Personnel (Names available upon request)
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