Last year (2015-2016) was the Year of Collaboration for the Vincentian Family. With all the activity and planning...
Formation: Collaboration Techniques
Collaboration #2: The People #IamVincent
Last year (2015-2016) was the Year of Collaboration for the Vincentian Family. With all the activity...
Collaboration #1: The Culture #IamVincent
Last year (2015-2016) was the Year of Collaboration for the Vincentian Family. With all the activity and planning...
Sharing Experience Is Collaboration Too
A meeting with extramural (correspondent) students (studying family consulting and catechetics as major) from the Institute of St. Thomas Aquinas and took place in the “God’s Gift” House in Kiev. Volunteers from Vincentian Family, Sisters of Mary of Miraculous Medal,...
Planning a Campaign: Now on Social
Evangelization takes planning. Planning takes research. Research means reading a lot of current marketing articles. Often, when planning our evangelization initiatives we think of using social media. But we don't make a social media plan. What is this plan? A social...
Collaborative Styles #IamVincent
Last year, we shared a fine presentation on the collaborative styles of Sts. Vincent and Louise. If you want to say #IamVincent, what characteristics will mark you as a leader? Because it’s not about what you SAY, it’s about what you DO! Jesse Lyn Stoner, from the...
Now on Social: Fundraising for Good
Throughout the Vincentian world, laudable projects go unfunded or underfunded. It's not because of the lack of resources available. It's often because of the failure to provide people with the opportunities to give "to their heart's desire." Online fundraising is a...
Team: Collaborative style in systemic change
Team. We say it often. In our efforts in collaboration for systemic change, we spend a lot of time trying to find people with the right talents, and the right capacities. But we pay less attention to creating the right atmosphere for a particular mix of personalities....
Now on Social: The GrantSpace Blog
Often these days, a blog gets overlooked. Why? Because it doesn’t talk about missionaries, or ministers. It talks about volunteers. For sure, there is a great difference in a person who comes to serve because they are called: a vocation to ministry; or because of...
Living in Community || Ministering in Groups
In all the Vincentian Family, we either minister in groups, in communities, or families. On this Feast of the Holy Family, I though I would share some ideas on how this can function more fruitfully. St. Vincent de Paul had something to say, and contemporary thinkers...
Want New Members? Go Mobile!
For those recruiting new members and those working in vocation ministry in the Vincentian Family the verdict is in. The coming generation has gone mobile, and it's not going back. Pew research states, Much of this frenzy of access is facilitated by mobile devices....
Keys to Online Meetings
There have been years of research dedicated to the preparation and execution of successful meetings. But how often have we heard the words, "boring!" or "useless" when evaluating the seemingly endless meetings we are invited/compelled to attend? We're Vincentians --...
