Systemic change
The Systemic Change That Began In Mary’s Womb
Have you ever thought of the birth of Jesus as the greatest systemic change?
What Can One Person Do To Help the Homeless?
Can one person impact the problems of homelessness? Yes… with 50,000 other individuals around the world who slept out as the homeless do!
Change, Change, Change!
Serving in an era of unprecedented change: Things are Changing, Changing, Changing… In your world. Everywhere around you.
Asking important questions
In his weekly column to the members of the Vincent de Paul Society, CEO Dave Barringer has a habit of asking important questions. This week is no exception. The question he asks is something that all branches on the Vincentian Family can ask. Do we sometimes not...
Vincentian Harbor Project in Odessa Ukraine
Confreres from the Vice-Province of SS. Cyril and Methodius involved in prison ministry in Odessa--a port city in the southern Ukraine--observed that inmates received little preparation to reenter society upon their release. This experience eventually led our...
Ladies of Charity reflect on Vincentian Collaboration
The latest edition of the Ladies of Charity USAÂ Servicette is attached. It features a wonderful article on Vincentian collaboration. LCUSA President Mary Ann Dantuono reflects on how Collaboration and systemic change are important. She writes... The elements of...
Vincentian Family Responds to Ferguson
The St. Louis Review describes the reaction of the young adults who attended "The Vincentian Family Responds to Ferguson," a gathering of members of the associations or congregations whose apostolates in St. Louis are inspired by the Vincentian charism of service to...
What Do the Poor Need? Try Asking Them
Under the title "What Do the Poor Need? Try Asking Them" David L. Kirp writes in the Sunday Review of a principle that is bedrock for the Vincentian Family approach to systemic change. Invite everyone to the table, especially those most affected! He writes, FOR...
Solving Poverty: A Revolutionary Approach
Systemic change has many names. This article "The Rise of Antipoverty Relational Work" uses terminology, "relational work", not familiar to most in the Vincentian Family, to describe nonprofits revolutionary change in approach to solutions to poverty. Whatever the...
The Last Mile on the Road to End Poverty
The Brookings Institution's latest report ought to be of great interest to the Vincentian Family. Our mission, our strategies and our experience can be brought to bear for the analysis of this landmark document, and serve as a partial basis for future collaborative...
Even typhoons can not stop Vincentian Family meeting!
Typhoon Falcon cannot stop the meeting for the Vincentian Family Philippines Collaborative Project on Systemic Change - Tanauan (Adamson University, July 9, 2015) Pam Mantuhac added 4 new photos to her Facebook page.  Attendees: Ana Maria P. Escano - CoM VMY, SC...
Systemic change’s blindest blind spot
(The development professional were certain that indoor water faucets would aid development but )....had development professionals not instantly assumed that walking to a well was a burden, they might have realized that the water faucets installed inside houses in a...