Doug talks with Sister Adele Marie Altenhofen from the Sisters of Saint Mary in Oregon. The organization runs a convent, a school spanning from pre-school up through high school, and a senior care center.

Doug and Sister Adelle Marie discuss the dynamics of running a mission-driven organization and the challenges that have been overcome during COVID as the guidelines constantly changed.

Doug's business specializes in partnering with companies and non-profits to create value and capture cost savings without layoffs to fund growth and strengthen financial results. 

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Welcome to the terminal value Podcast where each episode provides in depth insight about the long term value of companies and ideas in our current world. Your host for this podcast is Doug Utberg, the founder and principal consultant for Business of Life, LLC.

Doug: Welcome to the terminal value podcast. I have Sister Adelle Marie with me from the Sisters of Saint Mary. The campus in Beaverton Oregon which incidentally is where both of my kids go to school. My daughter Jada and my son Nolan. I won't say their ages but if you know me you probably know how old they are. They are both enrolled at the Sisters of Saint Mary's school. However, there are also some other ministries that go on as there as well which is they have a convent which is where Sister Adelle Marie lives with. Was it 49 other nuns?

Sister Adelle: Approximately yes.

Doug: Approximately yes. There's 42 there are 49 other nuns and they also run a senior care home called Maryville. In addition to having housing for retired clergy and Sister Adelle Marie she is actually the financial director. So she has quite a bit on her plate and she's graciously decided to come and talk to us just about the mission and the and then the resiliency they've shown in trying to figure out how to adapt to the covid reality and it's actually very timely conversation because as of the time of this recording the governor of the state of Oregon put a new set of restrictions on reopening schools. So you know, they the sisters are saying all right well that's okay we didn’t want to celebrate Christmas anyway. We’re just gonna be in meetings all the time. So Sister Adelle please welcome and yeah please tell us a little bit about your ministry over at the campus.

Sister Adelle: Certainly. So I am what we call my role is called the President of the Sisters of Saint Mary of Oregon Ministries Corporation and as noted we have several ministries on our campus. The school was founded clear back in the early 1900s we were known then as Saint Mary's and then it changed the St. Mary's Institute and then it became at some point in the line Saint Mary of The Valley Academy and then changed to Valley Catholic. So Valley Catholic school on our campus actually serves babies as young as six to eight weeks all the way up through our seniors in high School and we have about a thousand students on our campus. So usually, usually they're all on our campus right now they've been doing digital learning as was noted. Then we have Maryville Nursing facility. It has residents up to a capacity of 165 residents there and then another 15 in