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Ladies of Charity: Serving With Vincentian Creativity
A video documenting how the Ladies of Charity USA are serving those who face various situations of poverty, through a number of creative initiatives.
A Story of Organic Leadership
What do you see as the qualities of good leaders? Integrity and honesty – never compromise these. They have a...
Collaboration #3: Leadership #IamVincent
Last year (2015-2016) was the Year of Collaboration for the Vincentian Family. With all the activity and planning...
Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (6)
6. The pastoral relationship with the laity in the Vincentian family. It’s time for the laity to set their clocks to the correct time. The idea may seem new, but it is part of our Vincentian cultural heritage and also of the Church in general, at least since Vatican...
Partnership: Electric Ireland and SVP Ireland
Electric Ireland’s partnership with the SVP Ireland has produced a treasure called “What Do You See – Introducing Young SVP’s ’17 Under 17′.” It warrants reproducing in its entirety. Following the release of #WhatDoYouSee, a...
Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (5)
On our real life conditions. Our standard of living, in general, does not come close to that of the real poor in our society. Many who are near us have no fixed jobs and have to hold on to anything to survive… In many cases, our standard of living is also far...
Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (4)
4. On retirement and “early retirement” of family members… The bourgeois society in which we are immersed sneaks through the cracks of our familiar habitat, whether of one kind or another, of one branch or another. Creeping all too frequently into our life, and...
VFCAP goes to Taiwan!
Knowing the need for deeper collaboration among Vincentian Family groups in Taiwan, the Congregation of the Mission Chinese Province organized a workshop for Vincentian collaboration last week, May 16-19, 2016 . Ms. Pamela Mantuhac, a member of the design-team of...
Introducing a New Section on Collaboration!
To keep collaboration up front, .famvin has created a new section on collaboration. Fr. Aidan R. Rooney, C.M., international coordinator for .famvin, introduces the section on this video. (Don’t forget our “Find it!” page….)
Are You Being Truly Collaborative? #IamVincent
If you want to say “IamVincent,” you have to be collaborative. There’s no other way. In an article on leadership at the Training Industry blog, we read, The word “collaboration” is thrown around a lot these days. What do organizations mean when they...
I’m ready now, ’cause #IamVincent
When is someone ready to lead? In 2010, Bill George of the Harvard Business School said this: In retrospect, it seems obvious people weren’t responding to “top down” leadership. Why not? The craftsman-apprentice model has been replaced by learning...
Collaboration Networks in the Vincentian Family
Five years ago, Forbes magazine published an article entitled, “From Social Networks to Collaboration Networks: The Next Evolution of Social Media for Business.” To re-purpose a key phrase of this article (underlined sections are my variations), the...