Society of St. Vincent de Paul — Madison

She was the Secretary of the Parents and Friends Association at St Eddie's for many years, where her five sons were educated.

She was also a member of the St Vincent de Paul Society, a member of the Catholic Women's League, of which she was a president for some time.

And she's also a worker for the Archdiocese of Brisbane.

So someone who really served her community and passed away last month.

and of course when you have a town like tucson where that's a rampant issue of homelessness um due to the the council and mayor uh lack of leadership on that issue we wanted to make sure that we you know that we show something that is working

and i'm glad you said that because uh looking at, I do a lot of work here as I know you do there, but I work with St. Vincent de Paul and St. Mary's Food Bank and these private organizations.

When you have an organization like St. Mary's Food Bank that can buy five meals for a dollar, that's how efficient they are with donated dollars and the mission of St. Vincent de Paul to feed, clothe, house and heal and the success they've had.

You're right, when you adopt those principles of private industry and efficiency and accountability, The success rate seems to go up, but so does the people's willingness to jump in and help monetarily.

That's right.

I

don't need anything from St. Vincent de Paul.

But people automatically were like, single mother.

She was like, no, I'm grand.

Yeah, that's the thing.

And then everyone sends the stuff to, as they say in America, Goodwill or we pass them along to St. Vincent de Paul or Salvos or whatever.

Yep.

But also we're passing on crap.

So tell us what you do in Byte, how do you give kids that access to the network that's there or to the information they need?

Yes, one of our big things with our older students is our scholarship, which is funded through the St. Vincent de Paul and the Rotary Dublin Club.

And really there, we're looking for fifth-year students who are interested in going to college.

We don't look at their academics.

So Steve Young is our president and founder, and he was also president and founder of DECA Property Management.

and after raising his kids he decided you know it's time to give back I've been very blessed and he looked around because there's so many needs in the community and he started lifting up STL and really the first three years we just did everything and anything under the sun people would contact us and with different needs okay let's see what we can do and we had a few early partners like St. Vincent de Paul they learned about us so they would send people to us for certain things and After about three years, our mission statement could have been 10 pages long because we were just doing anything and everything.

And we're like, we've really got to focus and say, what are we doing? And it's great to help people, but we were a little bit all over the board.

And so one of our development committee members, who is a background in finance and banking and very much involved in the nonprofit community, he and I sat down and he said, you know, DECA Property Management, I'm a realtor.

Well, you've sparked a bunch of questions in my brain right now, but we'll start with the first one.

So transitional housing.

So let's say you find from St. Vincent de Paul, and they come to you and they tell you about this family they know that needs housing.

And so you're going to let them, I guess, stay at this house.