by sjs | May 14, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“What we do for each other says something about who we are,” said John Edwards during a gathering to kick off Half in Ten, a new initiative that aims to reduce poverty in the United Stats by 50% within 10 years. Half in Ten is a joint project of the Center...
by annaread | May 11, 2008 | Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
The ninth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Patricia Nava writes: Systemic Change Strategy Eight: Listen carefully and seek to understand the...
by sjs | May 8, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Global child mortality equates to the 2004 Asian tsunami striking every 40 days and killing only children – nearly all of them among the poorest of our world’s 6.5 billion people,” writes Bill Frist in the forward to Save the Children’s 2008...
by sjs | May 4, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
75 low-income families are now renting apartments in St. Vincent’s Gardens, a new affordable housing complex in Santa Barbara run by the Daughters of Charity. The complex “is already shining as a symbol of subsidized housing done right.” For years,...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 27, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In a novel appeal Soles4Souls.org encourages congregations to leave their shoes in church on Naational Baarefoot Sunday June 1 so that they may be used for 300 million children around the world who live barefoot.