Andres Donovan

Andres Donovan, a marketing major, spent a summer as an intern in the Donor Communications department for the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), a Catholic campus ministry with members on campuses across the globe.Their mission is to provide support and evangelization for Catholic students during a time when they are statistically most likely to lose their faith.

FOCUS interns and employees fundraise their entire salaries. Andres’s department focused on maintaining relationships with the donors who support FOCUS members.

He was inspired by meeting donors who have been active since the ministry’s founding in 1998, as well as new donors looking to support the cause for the first time. He said Franciscan students enter a job with a different perspective than most students, seeing the person as a whole person, and this attitude helped him succeed.

Andres says, “My time at Franciscan helped prepare me to be more receptive to the formation that Focus has to offer.”