by John Freund, CM | May 7, 2009 | Collaboration, Formation, Justice and Peace
The Vincentian Millium Partnership (VMP) collected 11,125 signatures asking the British Government for the compassionate and just treatment of asylum seekers in the UK. The Rt Hon John Battle presented our petition on 29th April in the House of Commons. I think St...
by John Freund, CM | May 4, 2009 | Collaboration, Featured, Justice and Peace, Systemic change
These words, See it, Film it, Change it!, represent another approach to systemic change. The website WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. “We empower people to transform personal stories of abuse...
by John Freund, CM | May 1, 2009 | Collaboration, Vincentian Family
Collaboratively sponsored by the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton, United Way of Greater Stark County and the Stark County Department of Job and Family Services the conference explored the theme “Bridges out of Poverty” in ways similar to the recent...
by John Freund, CM | May 1, 2009 | Collaboration, Vincentian Family
Some 36 participants representing 21 institutions from the VinFam in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines gathered for the Vincentian Leadership “Train the Trainer” Program. This is a collaborative endeavor of De Paul University, Adamson...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 30, 2009 | Collaboration, Vincentian Family
FAMVIN has an opportunity to purchase FlipVideos through a non-profit arrangement with the makers of FlipVideos. If interested please use the “Contact Us” link at the top of every famvin page. For an illustration of the use of FlipVideo’s to tell the...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 26, 2009 | Collaboration, Featured, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, FlipVideo, Wikipedia, Podcasts, Blogs… These are but a few of the buzzwords and tools that are reshaping how we communicate in an Internet Age. The time seems to have come to begin to catalog what is actually going on in the...
