by sjs | Mar 9, 2008 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The New York Times Magazine focuses its attention this week on giving. The features include a piece on the faces of social entrepreneurship as well as David Leonhardt’s analysis of why people give. Read the articles and see a slide show.
by sjs | Mar 8, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Plunge2Poverty simulations challenge middle-class presuppositions about poverty. The Texas minister who created the program finds that participants experiences a “new humility and gratefulness that is overwhelming.” Read the story.
by sjs | Feb 24, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail hightlights the efforts of International Development Enterprises to address poverty by developing low-cost tools that help subsistence farmers become small-scale commercial farmers and assisting...
by sjs | Feb 22, 2008 | Church, Justice and Peace
Religious leaders in California have come together to lobby Congress to increase foriegn aid to poor countries. San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer calls it “inconsistent and hypocritical” to say the gospel is for all peoples without being committed...
by sjs | Feb 20, 2008 | Evangelization, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A Brookings Insitute study finds that growing gaps in the education of the rich and poor (and minorities) “could lead to a downturn in opportunities for the poorest families.” Widening disparities in education levels will mean lower mobility in the future...
