by sjs | Mar 26, 2009 | Systemic change
During the month of April, about 250 Passing on the Gift ceremonies will be hosted by Heifer International worldwide, as families who have benefitted from Heifer’s gifts “pay it forward” to others. Heifer is a non-profit organization dedicated to...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 22, 2009 | Featured, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
Many who work among the poor speak use a phrase that captures a key purpose of their work: systemic change. This potent idea has captured the attention and imagination of leaders of the Vincentian Family. Why? One way to look at that question is to think about the...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 16, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. The story of Brazil’s fourth largest city Belo Horizonte, a city of 2.5 million people, once had 11 % of its population living in absolute poverty, and almost...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 15, 2009 | Collaboration, Featured, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
The keynote speakers at the North American Vincentian Family Gathering April 16-19, Allison Boisvert and Eddie Friel present insights into different but deeply inter-related dimensions of “systemic change†– the personal and structural. This week we feature...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 14, 2009 | Daughters of Charity, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
This is the question asked on the Daughters of Charity NE province website. It provides a place to share ideas what you have done. <!– Daughters of Charity –> <!– Just another WordPress weblog –> Have you changed the world this...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 9, 2009 | Collaboration, Justice and Peace, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
In this second Lenten podcast series Roger Playwin, Executive Director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society USA, offers his reflections on the “Systemic Change” thrust of the Vincentian Vamily. Podcast
