by John Freund, CM | Jul 13, 2008 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
That is the question addressed in Crain’s Business piece. Today, a movement of social entrepreneurs is tackling issues like homelessness, disease, pollution and hunger with business enterprises. TIRED OF GRANT WRITING Today, a movement of social entrepreneurs is...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 10, 2008 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Law firms are working to find a solution to a major problem for microlenders: currency risk. Twin crises – soaring food prices and a global credit contraction threaten to wreck the budget (and historically low default rate) of millions of small microloan...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 7, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A family gives up 1/2 of their American dream house to transform the lives of some 20,000 people in Ghana according to a CNN report and video clip by Rusty Dornan. (Talk about what one family can do for systemic change!) Prompted by a an experience of their 15 year...
by sjs | Jul 7, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Taking seriously the U.N. Millennium Development Goal of achieving “improvement in the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by the year 2015,” the Open Architecture Network is an online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 6, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
GodTube has a 25 minute video simulating and analyzing a home visit by members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. It is a simulation done by members of the the St. Vincent de Paul Society who are not paid actors. It is part of a series made available by Deacon...
by sjs | Jul 3, 2008 | Church, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The food crisis is threatening “the attainment of the primary right of every person to be free from starvation,” said Archbishop Migliori, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, at yesterday’s general debate of the U.N. Economic...
