REFERENCE FORM LSAV VOLUNTEERS
 
The Little Sisters of the Assumption Volunteers is a volunteer program which provides the opportunity for individuals to share our life and ministry with poor families. Our program offers a wide variety of tasks centered around nourishing the physical, material, and spirituals needs of poor families, based on the Gospel values which recognize the dignity and worth of individuals.
 
Volunteers live in a community setting with other volunteers and sisters in mostly inner city urban areas, requiring mature, well balanced and spiritually motivated persons.
 
We ask your assistance in helping us to know the applicant so that we can best assess the candidate for our program. Please consider the following questions if they apply to your relationship to and knowledge of the applicants.
 

1. What is your relationship to the applicant? How long have you known him/her in this capacity?

2. Describe this person's personality and any outstanding characteristics which make an impression on others.
 

3. Evaluate his/her ability to live and work with others. What qualities help or hinder him/her?
 

4. Please comment on this person's self-knowledge of talents, gifts, skills and confidence level.
 

5. Evaluate his/her ability to get things done. . . (energy, persistence, patience, initiative, resourcefulness, self reliance).

6. Describe the applicant's reaction to problems and or/decision making situations.
 

7. For what type of work is this person best suited?
 

8. Please add any other information that might be helpful in placing this applicant.
 
 

Please mail your reference letter directly to: LSAV Coordinator
Little Sisters of the Assumption Volunteer Program
417 East 115th Street
New York, NY 10035