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Our Organisation

Jesuit Social Services works collaboratively with others to engage disadvantaged individuals, families and communities and the wider society to promote health and wellbeing and to address social exclusion.

We do this by forming relationships as a basis for effective, holistic interventions, by building social capital and by effecting social change through social policy, advocacy and research

Jesuit Social Services is a progressive, vibrant organisation with more than one hundred employed members of staff, over a hundred active volunteers and an exciting vision of community service and social action that is founded on Christian values.

We work in some of the most difficult and demanding areas of human service, including the areas of crime, addiction, mental illness, long-term unemployment and entrenched social disadvantage.

We are also involved in local communities, with inner city neighbourhoods in high-rise public housing estates. We have a longstanding involvement with the Vietnamese community, and a strong partnership with communities from the Horn of Africa.

Our Research, Advocacy and Policy Unit complements our community service programs with advocacy, research and policy work aimed at building a more just society.

 

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Governance
Jesuit Social Services is a work of the Australian Jesuit Province operating under an independent Board of Directors as in incorporated organisation.

As at January 2008 there are currently 12 members on the Jesuit Social Services Board of Directors, of which 6 are Provincial appointments and 7 are Ordinary Directors.

Jesuit Social Services legal status is:

  • A Company Limited by Guarantee
  • A Registered Charity and holds an Endorsement for Charity Tax Concessions / holds  Public Benevolent Institution (PBI) status (tax deductibility for donations)
  • Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) Exempt. 

A commitment to ethical investment
A commitment to ethical investment strategies is integral to the way Jesuit Social Services manages its finances.

Ethical investment (sometimes known as socially responsible investment) refers to an investment strategy that includes a commitment to social good and the consideration of social outcomes of investments as well as financial returns.

Our approach to ethical investment aligns with our vision of Building a Just Society and our commitment to upholding the principles of Catholic Social Teaching: human dignity; solidarity; subsidiarity and the common good.

Our Investment Policy includes a commitment not to invest in a range of ‘prohibited investment’ areas considered to be detrimental to the common good. These prohibited areas include:
• Tobacco
• Gaming
• Uranium mining
• Private prison corporations
• Indigenous exploitation
• Armaments

For more information about our approach to ethical investment, contact Lisa Maddocks, Business Support Director.