by annaread | Nov 21, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
That’s the ambitious goal of idealist.org, “Action Without Borders”, a site that aims to network people world-wide. There are mini-tutorials on Web tools, a “What you can do” list of things that take only minute or so to effect positive...
by sjs | Nov 19, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
That is the title of Freedom from Hunger’s 2007 annual report, which details that organization’s progress in transforming the lives of the poor through microfinance, combined with other high-impact services, such as education and health protection...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 18, 2007 | Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Top down or bottom up? Poor people are not the problem but the key to eradicating hunger. Such is the belief of The Hunger Project, a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, The Hunger Project...
by sjs | Nov 7, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Compassion International announced today a $5 million investment over the next five years in Opportunity International, a microcredit lender serving over a million poor entrepreneurs in developing countries, to fund microfinance operations aimed at the working poor in...
by annaread | Nov 5, 2007 | Evangelization, News, Systemic change
Sunday the Salem Oregon USA St Vincent de Paul Society held the grand opening of the Center for Family Success, a program to work with families where parents have, by incarceration or otherwise, been involved with the criminal justice system. It’s modeled on...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 4, 2007 | Featured, Systemic change
One key to “addressing underlying causes and discovering long-term solutions for poverty” (John Paul II to Vincentians), a process also known as “systemic change”, is recognizing the difference between “hand outs” and “a hand...