by John Freund, CM | May 13, 2009 | Collaboration, Featured, Vincentian Family
“I write to you today to announce officially the beginning of our Jubilee Year, a year in which we will celebrate as Vincentian Family the anniversaries of the death and resurrection of our founders Saint Vincent de Paul and Saint Louise de Marillac. We do so...
by John Freund, CM | May 10, 2009 | Featured, Justice and Peace
In this weeks featured video on famvin (right hand column) the question is asked “What if you lost everything, how long would it take you to get something to eat, find a place to stay, and a get some work? A Brazilian pastor, Claudio Oliver, offers up a...
by John Freund, CM | May 4, 2009 | Collaboration, Featured, Justice and Peace, Systemic change
These words, See it, Film it, Change it!, represent another approach to systemic change. The website WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. “We empower people to transform personal stories of abuse...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 26, 2009 | Collaboration, Featured, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, FlipVideo, Wikipedia, Podcasts, Blogs… These are but a few of the buzzwords and tools that are reshaping how we communicate in an Internet Age. The time seems to have come to begin to catalog what is actually going on in the...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 19, 2009 | Featured, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
What do all these groups have in common? Arkansas Rice Depot, Arkansas Foodbank Network, Americorps, Catholic Charities, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Congregation of the Mission, Daughters of Charity, FEMA, Ladies of Charity, VOAD, UMCOR, Presbyterian Church,...
