How to Tackle Poverty in Your Own Community Kristie Eshelman | January 8, 2015 | Poverty 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... Read More Kristie Eshelman Kristie Eshelman is the regional digital coordinator at Generation Opportunity.
Problem Solving in a New Age Wesley Cate | December 10, 2014 | Society 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... Read More Wesley Cate
Friday Five: A Boy’s Desire to Work Faith and Public Life | December 5, 2014 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,... Read More Faith and Public Life This post was published by the website administrator.
Friday Five: Is Earning a Profit Wrong? Faith and Public Life | October 10, 2014 | Economics 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... Read More Faith and Public Life This post was published by the website administrator.
Generosity Through Entrepreneurship Wesley Cate | September 4, 2014 | Society 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... Read More Wesley Cate