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 6, 2007 | Evangelization, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Michael Stamm, who won gold and silver medals for swimming in the 1972 Olympics, is now training people to cook for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Oakland, California. “We want,” he says, “to give people a hand up, not a handout.” Read...
by annaread | Oct 29, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Because of the initiative of a St. Vincent de Paul Society volunteer, it has become easier for organizations in a Florida county to supply food to those who need it. The Society worked with the local food bank and municipality to open a drop site for the food bank and...
by annaread | Oct 25, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Previously famvin.org published a link to a participant’s overview of the Vincentian Center for Church and Society’s conference on poverty. Now a complete digest of the day includes summaries of the keynote address by John J. Coughlin, O.F.M., J.D., J.C.D....
by annaread | Oct 24, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
With as little as $100, it is possible to invest in microfinance, the topic of last week’s famvin.org feature on systemic change. Today eBay, the online auction site, launched MicroPlace and its slogan: “Invest wisely. End poverty.” See BBC coverage...
