07/05/2026
Steve Worth: Bringing Strategic Value to St. Ann’s Center!
IVC-NCA member Steve Worth is grateful to be serving at partner agency St. Ann’s Center for Children, Youth and Families, where he brings a career in government relations, marketing and public affairs to assist the center with strategic planning and communications. Steve joined IVC in 2025, after fellow IVC member Joe Kenny and his wife Sharon recommended it to him as a way to help organizations in need.
A graduate of Georgetown University, Steve served as a managing director with Hill+Knowlton Strategies and, later, at two other international firms before forming his own management consulting practice. St. Ann’s warmly welcomes his talents!
Established in 1860 by the Daughters of Charity as Washington, D.C.’s first home for orphaned, abused and neglected children, today St. Ann’s Center helps mothers and their young children overcome crisis and achieve lasting independence and stability. It’s a model that works!
Last year, the center provided over 17,600 total days of housing for 80 women and children. Their expert staff facilitated comprehensive social work case management services and related classes in life and parenting skills. Teen mothers benefitted from therapeutic group sessions, infants in need received physical therapy, and the center’s onsite child care program served over 100 children.
“The opportunity with St. Ann’s attracted me because of its original mandate,” Steve says. “It’s personal to us because my wife and I adopted our two children.” His many years as a board member with a nonprofit focused on poverty alleviation also played a role. “Poverty is really a defining thing for so many people, and women and children suffer the most,” he points out. “Clients turn to St. Ann’s to get the hope and job skills they need to have. I love the people and the mission.”
Since starting at St. Ann’s last January, Steve has helped with strategic planning and its implementation, along with reviewing goals and implementing tasks for the center’s new business plan. He’s also helped with broader communications, especially for the recent Hope Blossoms reception and awards ceremony. “We are also focused on November, to raise awareness about homelessness.”
“Steve has been a true gift to St. Ann’s Center - generously sharing his time and expertise across everything from board development to communications strategy,” says Chief Executive Officer Sister Nancy Downing, CND. “His thoughtful guidance and willingness to step in wherever needed have strengthened our work in a meaningful and lasting way.”
When considering his role at St. Ann’s, Steve refers back to St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Principle Foundation of the Spiritual Exercises: Our only desire and our one choice should be this: I want and I choose what better leads to God’s deepening life in me.
He sees that foundation in the work going on at the center. “Everyone brings something unique, in terms of experience and reasons to be there, that form a mosaic of perspectives, talents, and passions that is full of energy and creativity. Virtually all have had an experience in their own lives that helps them to realize just how needed and special St. Ann's is. Is the Holy Spirit moving behind the scenes there? I have no doubt about it.”
Photo: Steve Worth (right) with St. Ann's Manager of Marketing and Communications Michael McCormick
