Jubilee Year is an award-winning program providing a personally and professionally transformative service year to raise up a new generation of change makers for the world.
Spiritual Life
While Jubilee Year is rooted in the Christian tradition and continues to honor our Episcopal values, JYLA is intentionally committed to forming and fostering an interreligious community. Fellows come from diverse religious backgrounds – or none at all. We welcome that and together we explore the many ways we can be spiritually enlivened and engaged in our modern world. Through a justice-centered frame, care-filled mentorship, structured dialogue, respect for needed independence, and consistent guidance by our committed leadership team, a year of service with Jubilee Year offers an opportunity for fellows to dig deep into their spiritual understandings and mindfully examine social issues that matter in order to reflect and grow.
Volunteering
Jubilee Year fellows serve full-time with community-minded organizations who can expand their capacity for change making by teaming up with JYLA. More than an internship, fellows are key team members who are empowered with leadership opportunities and given the ability to learn from the experience and passion of their service site while having chances to create, innovate, and use their own skills to enhance the work of their partner agencies.
Alongside the commitment to service, JYLA fellows live, learn, and play together in affirming, supportive, growth-centered intentional community. Fellows share meals and engage spiritual and shared learning practice at least once per week. They are matched with mentors who will walk alongside and support them and fellows engage regular conversation and curriculum with JYLA staff to supplement and enrich experiential growth.
Financial Package
In addition to a monthly stipend to cover expenses, Jubilee Year provides fellows with free, furnished housing and coverage of all utilities (incl. cable and internet), a $600/month stipend, a monthly community fund of $50/fellow, Annual Metro Pass (Public Transit), and ensure all of our corps have coverage. Beyond financial benefits, JYLA provides fellows with mentorship, monthly group dialogue sessions, quarterly retreats, professional development, and extensive access to and interaction with our social and professional network built up over the course of over 25 years serving in Los Angeles.
Wider Community
Los Angeles is much more than the city you see on the screen. It is a city full of great beauty and rich culture – as well as great poverty and need. JYLA fellows engage the latter in service but there is so much time during the year to soak up the sun and fun that L.A. has to offer. A sprawling tapestry of communities, Los Angeles has an effective public transit system connecting fellows with amazing restaurants, beautiful beaches, quirky little bookshops, parks and trails, enriching museums, galleries, and more music venues than you could count. Add to that the fact that L.A. is just a road trip away from San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Yosemite, Sequoia, Lake Tahoe, and a year is never enough time to see all this wonderful place has to offer. But it’s a great start…
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