by John Freund, CM | Aug 28, 2011 | Social Media
It depends! Here are some words of wisdom from a long time Non-profit activist, Jayne Cravens. The primary goal of a nonprofit, NGO, government agency or mother mission-based organization in using Twitter isn’t for its messages to go viral (to be...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 26, 2011 | Justice and Peace
The USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development has issued its traditional statement for Labor Day . It is one of the most forceful statements from the USCCB in a long time. Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, California,  the head of the committee notes...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 25, 2011 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Marian Youth
The Society of St. Vincent dePaul website shares the material distributed at the Vocation Fair during th e recent celebration of World Youth Day. (Click to enlarge) As a historical note it may be worth remembering that initially Vincent did not want to use the letters...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 25, 2011 | Vincentian Family
According to the Sisters of Charity Federation website the New York Sisters of Charity are collaborating with parishioners of the Diocese of Spokane in their their long-standing support of the Mayan Indians in the Highlands of Guatemala. For further details see the...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 24, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Most of the world’s newspapers are running features on how to survive in a bad economy. But I have seen no articles on “How to survive on less than $2 a day”. Yet over 2.7 billion people in the world live on $2 or less a day. How do they do it? How...