by John Freund, CM | Apr 29, 2010 | Collaboration, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
According to the Huffington Post “Zafen, a new interest-free microloan initiative enabling lenders and donors to finance small and medium-sized Haitian businesses, may be just the ticket. That’s what four organizations that collaborated to launch...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 27, 2010 | Collaboration, Featured, Formation, Social, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
What did we learn from the first meeting of the Vincentian Family in cyberspace? It seems like quite a bit. Before we fast forward to the future lets look at the statistics. In its short life VirtualVins.net was viewed from 290 different cities in 27 countries with...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 26, 2010 | Collaboration, Formation, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
More than 130 Haitian professionals and friends of Haiti gathered at St. John’s University April 24 for the New York City launch of www.zafen.org, the first secure Internet pathway designed to enable Haitians to transform their economy.  See full press release....
by John Freund, CM | Apr 24, 2010 | Collaboration, Vincentian Family
I will make a fuller report in a day or two but initial site statistics suggest that it was viewed, at least in some part, by well over 500 (and perhaps way over). We had Twitter, Facebook and Flickr feeds. Initial reports of discussions were quite favorable...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 22, 2010 | Collaboration, Featured, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
As Father Gregory Gay, CM the 23rd successor of St. Vincent de Paul, will point out in his opening remarks to us online at VirtualVins this is one of the major events in the celebration of this 350th Jubilee Year. Not only are we coming to grips with an approach to...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 21, 2010 | Collaboration, Justice and Peace, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
At Citigroup’s annual meeting this week the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth, asked the bank’s shareholders to ratify a proposal that would require Citi to issue a report by the end of the year stating its policies on the collateral used to back many of...
