by Beth | Aug 15, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
San Mateo County school children went shopping for back-to-school duds Saturday with $100 gift cards provided by Mervyn’s and the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The stores opened an extra hour early for the youths, who were chaperoned by St. Vincent de Paul...
by Beth | Aug 12, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
EUREKA — A video showed the stream of young faces excitedly awaiting delivery of 400 pounds of baseball gear.The time was two years ago, but the mission Friday was the same. Dave Silverbrand, at the time a reporter with KVIQ and now the station manager, had...
by Beth | Aug 3, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
ATLANTA, GA (July 28) – Recently, we walked through our “basement” and discovered that many of the items stored there could actually help a person or family with limited resources. So, we brainstormed and came up with a new retail concept that we...
by Beth | Jul 6, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Africa Phone is a project inside Motorola, triggered by people who have discovered a remarkable statistic: that when 20 percent of a population has secure phone communications, dictators get overthrown. Take a country like Zimbabwe in Southern Africa—one where the...
by Beth | May 22, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Founded in 1997, the Roarke Center was looking for ways to help local residents develop judgment and learn to make choices, says Hoag, an art educator with more than 20 years of classroom experience in grade and high schools. Today, she (a former client) helps run the...
