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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Vincentian Family Triple Play Nets Over One Million Dollars
The Vincentian Family figured prominently in the awarding of over one millions dollars for systemic change projects. On November 8, 2007 Brother Constant Goetschalckx FC of the Brothers of Charity, an international community with deep roots in the Vincentian traditon...
Vincentian lecture on Jean Vanier and L’Arche
The 12th annual Newman C. Eberhardt, C.M. Lecture at Saint John's Seminary in California is titled "Disfigurement and Reconfiguration: The Contribution of Jean Vanier and L'Arche to a Renewed Social Order". The series, named in honor of Newman C. Eberhardt C.M., is...
DC volunteer reflects on work lepers in Ethiopia
A young woman joined the Vincentian Lay Missionaries for service Jimma, Ethiopia. Her month of service included teaching English, as she expected. But "the Daughters of Charity main mission was providing a better life for families living in two leper colonies." Rather...
Good happens
Man wins supermarket gift certificate and doesn't keep it. Read the story.
Blogging about social entrepreneurship
A phrase well on its way to becoming a buzzword, "social entrepreneurship" has many meanings. There's a blog that unpacks the meaning, Common Good Careers. It describes itself as "Uncommon talent working for the common good". Check it out.
Mixed Progress in Achieving Millennium Development Goals
The International Food Policy Research Institute has released a report showing mixed progress in attaining the Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty and hunger by 2015: despite improvements in some areas, poverty among the ultra poor in some regions...
Gaming to improve health and health care
Using mobile phone games to improve HIV/AIDS awareness in Asia and Africa -- well, it isn't something most of us would have thought of. Which is just the point of the "Why Games Matter: A Prescription for Improving Health and Health Care" contest. Winners were...
Alaska town acts against homelessness
Climbing rents in Juneau Alaska has contributed to a growing problem of homelessness. Now a housing advocate will work in a position managed by the St Vincent de Paul Society. Stan Marston says his is a "one stop shop" that "will prevent homelessness, plain and...
Work study program forKansas City high school students
At Cristo Rey Kansas City High School, a Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth school, students work for part of their tuition. The Kansas City Star ran a brief story about the City of Kansas City becoming one of more than 65 partners with the school. Read the story and...
U.S. Bishops Urge Child Tax Credit Reform
The U.S. Bishops today expressed strong support for restructuring the Child Tax Credit so that it more effectively reaches the poorest working families. In a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives, the Bishops state that tax policy must be judged by "how it...
