Vincentians can be the storytellers to policy makers and others who may never “see” poverty in all of its forms.
Barringer
The Family that Prays Together…
SVDP CEO, Dave Barringer, reflects on how the familiar saying “the family that prays together…”...
If you aren’t moving forward, you are dying.
If you aren’t moving forward, you are dying. Not too much different from what Vincent de Paul said, “The...
Doing good behind the scenes
Dave Barringer, CEO of the Vincent dePaul Society USA, articulates something that many in the Vincentian Family can relate to: Doing good behind the scenes. And then seeing people finally catch on to an issue…even if they don’t recognize all the spade work...
What happened to the issue of poverty?
What happened to the issue of poverty? Like a set of misplaced keys, I know it was there a minute ago but now I can’t find it. Within the past year, poverty was the issue of the day on the national stage. Stemming from the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty,...
Organizations pulled in various directions
Are there any of us not pulled in different directions? In his weekly letter to the members of the Vincent de Paul Society David Barringer speaks to members of the Society. But once again he touches on a theme that resonates within and across the various branches of...
2016 – Vincentian opportunities to influence
“If we consider [four events in January] not only as separate events but linked together, we see opportunities to influence, if not outright create, a better future for people in poverty and for the Society itself.” In his weekly column for the Society of...
