by John Freund, CM | Jun 21, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The economic crisis has left many people in desperate situations. A Spanish organization decided to respond to this need by creating a so called ‘Solidarity Bank.’  RomeReports TV has a 90 second video Through this website, people in Spain, can request...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 21, 2012 | News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
For those interested in telling the story of those in poverty and “Voice of the Poor” advocacy , the Visual Storytelling Network offers this post focusing on The 10 Immutable Laws of Storytelling 1. Stories are about people. Even if your organization (a)...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 21, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
For those interest in Voice of the Poor efforts Half in Ten has developed a social media directory to facilitate connections among grassroots advocacy organizations and policy experts working to reduce poverty and create economic opportunity. We hope you’ll connect...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 19, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Feature phones are not the future. Of course that verges on tautology; of course everyone will have a smartphone, until everyone has something smaller and better and even more integrated into the fabric of our lives, like Google Glasses or cybernetic jawbone/retinal...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 18, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Uncategorized
It’s only a game! Or is it? Spent (http://playspent.org/ ) – PlaySpent is an online game that involves the player taking on the role of an unemployed, single parent who has to make it through the month on their last $1,000. The player does this by solving...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 17, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Philadelphia; Denver; Ashland, OR. What do these cities have in common? They are all addressing homelessness and poverty by making it a crime. A Painful Truth And in Sunday’s edition of the USA Today, we shared a painful truth: they’re not alone. Across the country,...
