Formation: systemic change analysis
No Easy Answers #IamVincent
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | November 2, 2017 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change | 0 Comments
Discovering Opportunities for Systemic Change
by John Freund, CM | February 8, 2017 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments
How did Vincent discover opportunities that turned to systemic change?
The Difference is Often the Resources
by John Freund, CM | December 14, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments
The difference between “getting by” resources and “getting ahead” resources
Systemic Change – Doing the Next Right Thing
by John Freund, CM | October 19, 2016 | Systemic change | 0 Comments
Vincent accomplished so much by simply by seizing the day and doing the next right thing.
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With Sharp Political Differences How Do We Serve as the Voice of the Poor?
by John Freund, CM | Nov 29, 2017 | Formation, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
"With sharp political differences, how do we remain unified as Vincentians?" This is a direct quote from the...
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No Easy Answers #IamVincent
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Nov 2, 2017 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
People are always looking for the easiest answers to poverty. There are no easy answers. Practitioners of systemic...
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Discovering Opportunities for Systemic Change
by John Freund, CM | Feb 8, 2017 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
How did Vincent discover opportunities that turned to systemic change?
What Do the Poor Need? Try Asking Them
by John Freund, CM | Aug 9, 2015 | News, Systemic change
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
by John Freund, CM | Aug 1, 2015 | Formation, News, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
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
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jul 22, 2015 | Formation, News, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
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...
Systemic change’s blindest blind spot
by John Freund, CM | Jul 11, 2015 | Formation, Systemic change
(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...
Systemic Change: Tips for Trainers
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jul 8, 2015 | Formation, Systemic change
Know your audience. Know your goal. Know your biases. Know your resources... These and other tips for systemic change training can be found at VinFormation!
Serve: Germantown Systemic Change Initiative
by Vincentian Family Office | Jun 29, 2015 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
The Germantown Systemic Change Initiative (GSCI) is a project aimed at improving the lives of the vulnerable citizens of the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia by building meaningful collaboration among community-based organizations and creating a collective...
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.
Three years in the making… creating a backbone
by John Freund, CM | Sep 15, 2014 | Systemic change
Three years in the making… creating a backbone. In 2010, following a Vincentian Family Gathering in Belleville, Illinois, people from 15 Vincentian-affiliated organizations in Germantown met to answer the question “so what now?”
SCN – Understanding Systemic Change & Gender Justice
by John Freund, CM | Sep 5, 2014 | Sisters of Charity, Systemic change
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth have posted news of their workshop "Understanding Systemic Change & Gender Justice" In responding to the call of the Province and General Assembly, 35 SCNs attended a Systemic Change Workshop and Gender Justice at the Provincial...