Now if we could just get all the competing factions in the world to use technology to build the human community!
Anti-poverty strategies
Systemic change challenges us to mission
by John Freund, CM | July 25, 2018 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change | 0 Comments
Participate: Knowledge from the Margins for Systemic Change
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | September 6, 2017 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change | 0 Comments
Ministry Planning and Beating Dead Horses
by John Freund, CM | March 15, 2017 | Formation, Systemic change | 0 Comments
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians—passed on from generation to generation—says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. But moderns think they have better strategies.
Ozanam on systemic change – little known insights
by John Freund, CM | July 13, 2016 | Formation, Systemic change | 1 Comment
His insights on what we would call today “systemic change” reveal a profoundly deep thinker and critic of a piecemeal approach to serving the poor.
Pope urges activists to struggle against ‘structural causes’ of poverty
by John Freund, CM | Oct 31, 2014 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Pope Francis urged an international gathering of grassroots social activists to struggle against the “structural causes” of poverty and inequality, with a “revolutionary” program drawn from the Gospels.
Working with people in poverty
by John Freund, CM | Oct 23, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Donna Beegle grew up in generational poverty, could not read a newspaper at 28 yet now has a Ph.D. Watch the video of her keynote address at the 2014 St. Vincent de Paul National Assembly in Atlanta.
Mobile phones empower the poor
by John Freund, CM | Feb 19, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Technology: Issues and Uses
Mobile Phones empower the poor. The greatest weapon against poverty, in the developing world, is in the palm of your hand. So demonstrate the website UPWORTHY in a fascinating infographic from USAID about the power of cellphones to combat poverty in the developing...
Navigating Affordable Care with people in poverty
by John Freund, CM | Feb 13, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Navigating the Affordable Care Act The St. John's Bread and Life program writes... "Thanks to Single Stop USA, a nonprofit working with community partners to provide screenings for and access to a wide range of government resources, Bread and Life is now providing...
A Vincentian fish story from Haiti
by John Freund, CM | Feb 10, 2014 | International Association of Charities - Ladies of Charity, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Vincentian Family Fish Farm in Central Plateau Breaks Ground Nine acres of carefully selected land in Haiti’s Central Plateau will become the new home for 25,000 baby tilapia, or “fingerlings,” in early 2014 as the Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative launches a...
They kept coming… The story of POTS
by John Freund, CM | Feb 8, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Sisters of Charity
Part of the Solution, or POTS, was opened in a storefront on Fordham Road in 1982 by Fr. Ned Murphy, SJ, Tim Boon, and Sister Jane Iannucelli, SC, (current President of the Sisters of Charity) to help feed those living in poverty in the Bronx. This video tells the...
Perspectives on US foreign aid
by John Freund, CM | Jan 25, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Bill Nye, the Science Guy, addresses myths about poverty, health, and foreign aid. http://youtu.be/UL4zoo8xijc Read more about what Bill and Melinda Gates see as myths that block progress for the poor. http://b-gat.es/1mnv6Kg
Knock knock, Vinnies needs you
by John Freund, CM | Jan 16, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
This is not a "knock, knock" joke but a notice about the AUstralian SVDP "Doorknocker" campaign. They have a recruiting drive in Catholic secondary schools and beyond the borders of parishes into the general community is expected to boost the ranks of Vinnies...
Learning business through Vincentian Mission
by John Freund, CM | Jan 13, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Learning the Vincentian Mission through a business school class at Niagara University. During the fall 2013 semester, students enrolled in Dr. Anna McNab’s Operations and Information Management classes not only learned about the importance of information systems for...