The Ecumenical Volunteer Service Network

Living God’s transforming grace through faith and works

Please join us as we welcome Jo Anne Schneider, Ph.D., author of Social Capital and Welfare Reform: Organizations, Congregations, and Communities, who will lead a discussion on “Faith, Works, and Community.”

“Faith, Works, and Community”

Jo Anne Schneider, PhD

Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 7pm

St. William of York

600 Cooks Lane

Baltimore, MD 21229

Jo Anne Schneider is an Associate Research Professor in Anthropology and at the George Washington Institute for Public Policy, George Washington University. She served as an American Anthropological Association Congressional fellow and recently completed an American Association for the Advancement of Science policy fellowship at NIH. She has written numerous articles, reports and papers on welfare reform, churches, and communities, and administered welfare-to-work programs for five years.

Praise for Social Capital and Welfare Reform: Organizations, Congregations, and Communities. “Jo Anne Schneider is the first scholar to view social capital jointly with welfare reform and portray how one feeds the other and how congregations, nonprofit organizations, and local communities use social capital to implement welfare reform. This is an original and most intelligent contribution to the social science literature.”— Ram A. Cnaan, University of Pennsylvania, author of The Invisible Caring Hand: American Congregations and the Provision of Welfare.

Directions: St. William of York is located at the intersection of Cooks Lane and Edmondson Avenue (Rt. 40). From downtown Baltimore, take Rt. 40 West past Edmondson Village. Go past Cooks Lane. Make a right into the parking lot. From 695, take the exit for Rt. 40 East towards Baltimore. Route 40 merges with Edmondson Avenue. Make a U-turn at Nottingham Road. Go past Cooks Lane. Make a right into the parking lot from Edmondson Avenue/Rt. 40.

To RSVP or to get additional information, send email to seminar@evsn.org