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How to Tackle Poverty in Your Own Community

Kristie Eshelman | January 8, 2015 | Poverty

How to Tackle Poverty in Your Own Community

As we graduate college and begin our first job, many of us find ourselves in cities full of affluence and poverty that coexist in stark contrast. Rural poverty is just as devastating. And as Kurt Jaros points out, we will even encounter poverty in the suburbs, the...

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Kristie Eshelman is the regional digital coordinator at Generation Opportunity.

Problem Solving in a New Age

Wesley Cate | December 10, 2014 | Society

Problem Solving in a New Age

In a Harvard Business Review article earlier this year, Don Tapscott asked his readers, “How will you participate in the global solution networks that are increasingly managing to address the world’s problems?” According to Tapscott, a global solution network is a...

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Friday Five: A Boy’s Desire to Work

Faith and Public Life | December 5, 2014

Friday Five: A Boy’s Desire to Work

On Fridays, we bring you the week’s best from around the web. This week’s collection includes lessons on work—from a young boy and an unemployed college graduate, a trick to being more virtuous, and more. “Conserving Friendship in a Consumer Age” by Matthew Maule,...

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Friday Five: Is Earning a Profit Wrong?

Faith and Public Life | October 10, 2014 | Economics

Friday Five: Is Earning a Profit Wrong?

On Fridays we bring you the week’s best from around the web. This week’s collection includes thoughts on community, business, education, profit, and pragmatism. 1. “Let Us Pray for One Another” by Bryan Wandel, Humane Pursuits The rock of our common life must be...

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Generosity Through Entrepreneurship

Wesley Cate | September 4, 2014 | Society

Generosity Through Entrepreneurship

The Maori practice of gift-giving is much more than a greeting card transaction; it’s the extension of one person’s self to another. Writing in 1925, sociologist Marcel Mauss explained, “The thing given is not inert. It is alive and often personified and strives to...

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