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...
by Beth | May 8, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Beyond the Streets was created in 2002 to help some of St. Francis Medical Center’s young trauma patients, many who were being treated for gang-related gunshot and stab wounds. The hospital’s association with the Daughters of Charity Foundation established...
