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Kimberly Jenkins: The innovation ecosystem

Kimberly Jenkins’ career includes launching a successful educational division for Microsoft, leading the marketing department for Steve Jobs at NeXT, and advising companies such as Sun, Oracle and Cisco.

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Interrupting violence

The Rev. Tim White once ruled the drug-ravaged streets of his west Chicago neighborhood as the chief of one of the city’s most notorious gangs. Today, he spreads a message of peace at the funerals of...

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Love your neighbor

Name the issue -- poverty, hunger, homelessness -- and there’s a nonprofit addressing it. In Durham, N.C., however, one tiny but ambitious nonprofit is working on an issue as large as every other issue...

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Quiz: Navigating the world of Christian nonprofits

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How Dubuque embraced sustainability

Dubuque Mayor Roy Buol had come on the scene in 1995 as a councilman. In his run for mayor 10 years later, he had begun to consider how to preserve the improvements Dubuque had made since the city’s...

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Smart, sustainable success

In 2005, as then-City Councilman Roy Buol climbed the hilly streets of Dubuque, Iowa, knocking on voters’ doors in a run for mayor, he was thinking about sustainability. He and his wife had begun...

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Restoring dignity

“To love someone is not first of all to do things for them, but to reveal to them their beauty and value, to say to them through our attitude: ‘You are beautiful. You are important. I trust you. You...

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Big impact in the Big Apple

For many first-time visitors to Metro Baptist Church, it might take a few moments before they realize they are standing in the middle of a sanctuary.While the painted ceilings and stained-glass windows...

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A new network of young leaders

It grew out of a single conversation. Deborah Bial was speaking with a young man who had left school before finishing his undergraduate degree, and he remarked, “I never would have dropped out of...

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Martin Fisher: Putting families on a different trajectory out of poverty

In the 1980s, Martin Fisher spent years doing traditional anti-poverty work in Africa, only to see a string of community-development projects flounder and fail. Finally, he had a flash of insight that...

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Elevating fast food

It’s about 1 o’clock on a Monday afternoon, and the Elevation Burger in Falls Church, Va., is packed with a hungry lunch crowd.Every few minutes, an employee bearing a tray full of food emerges from...

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Elevation Burger: How do you change a flawed institution?

When Hans and April Hess founded Elevation Burger in 2005, they approached the fast-food model in a new way. They incorporated the best parts of that institution -- affordability, widespread...

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Orphan diseases find a champion

The parents of the little boy in a wheelchair had driven from upstate New York to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., hoping they would finally get a diagnosis. Or at least find a way to make...

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Nonprofit puts people back on the road of hope

Gloria Scott, 51, of Chapel Hill, N.C., cranked the engine of the 2003 black Mercury Sable and, for the first time in years, saw a world of possibilities on the road ahead.

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Missy Sherburne: Donors want to know where their money is going

Thirteen years ago, Charles Best, a teacher in the Bronx, came up with a simple idea for how he and other public school teachers could raise money to fund classroom projects. He created a website where...

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Dave Blanchard: Translating belief into practice

When Dave Blanchard worked as a principal designer at IDEO, an innovation consulting firm that specializes in “human-centered” design, he saw how innovation models were being applied in Silicon Valley....

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Paul Sansone: The triple bottom line of people, planet and profit

Better World Books came into being in 2002 when three Notre Dame students were disappointed by the pittance they were offered when they tried to sell their used textbooks back to the bookstore. They...

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Resources on Christian social entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship is the process of pursuing innovative solutions to social problems. For Christian leaders, this blending of a business model with Christian mission can be a valuable tool to...

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David Scobey: Let's do together what we can't do separately

Across the nation, universities are placing a renewed emphasis on civic or public engagement, helping to solve problems in their local communities. And churches and other religious institutions are...

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Mike Baughman: The wetlands where church and social ventures meet

Sometimes, the best way to learn about the church may be to get as far away from it as possible, to attend a meeting or conference that has nothing to do with the church at all. That’s what I did this...

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