http://www.povertycure.org/ This RSS feed features Issues, Voices, blog posts, videos, and photos uploaded by PovertyCure en ehilton@acton.org Copyright 2012 2012-05-08T17:54:52+00:00 http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/create-a-curriculum-focusing-on-poverty-development-issues-acton-university/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/create-a-curriculum-focusing-on-poverty-development-issues-acton-university/#When:17:54:52Z Acton University, June 12-15, 2012, offers the opportunity to create your own curriculum. Registration deadline is May 18, 2012. 2012-05-08T17:54:52+00:00 http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/fair-trade-vs-free-trade-whats-the-difference/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/fair-trade-vs-free-trade-whats-the-difference/#When:13:25:28Z While free trade has been increasingly maligned, the fair trade movement has become increasingly popular over the last several years. Many see it as a way to help people in the developing world and as a more just alternative to free trade--which many argue creates an unfair advantage that tends to harm the poor. 2012-05-04T13:25:28+00:00 http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/pinterest-contest-illustrate-povertycures-goals-vision/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/pinterest-contest-illustrate-povertycures-goals-vision/#When:16:56:07Z PovertyCure Pinterest contest 2012-05-02T16:56:07+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/v/OdqAAClXZxs?version=3&hl=en_US&hd=1 http://www.youtube.com/v/OdqAAClXZxs?version=3&hl=en_US&hd=1 In 2004, the global movement of Business as Mission (BAM) was captured in an occasional paper distributed by the Lausanne Forum for World Evangelization. The 10 guiding principles of BAM affirm human dignity and provide a foundation for businesses that seek to honor God in every way. Since the publication of the occasional paper, the BAM movement has grown significantly. 2012 marks the launch of the 2nd Global Think Tank on Business as Mission. This consultative process will reach every corner of the globe, invigorate the movement with case studies and lessons learned, and explore innovative development in sub-fields like BAM and Human Trafficking, BAM-in-a-Box, and BAM that alleviates U.S. poverty. In this lecture, Rudy Carrasco of Partners Worldwide gives an overview of these developments. 2012-03-29T16:26:11+00:00 http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/business-as-mission-20/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/business-as-mission-20/#When:15:54:34Z Rudy Carrasaco, US Regional Director for Partners World Wide spoke yesterday at the Acton Lecture Series about Business as Mission 2.0. 2012-03-22T15:54:34+00:00 http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/here-i-come-to-save-the-day-how-i-would-lead-the-world-bank/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/here-i-come-to-save-the-day-how-i-would-lead-the-world-bank/#When:00:41:23Z A critical parody of Jeffrey Sachs' Washington Post Op-Ed bid for the World Bank presidency. 2012-03-21T00:41:23+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/v/JEeAGKI-dYE?version=3&hl=en_US&hd=1 http://www.youtube.com/v/JEeAGKI-dYE?version=3&hl=en_US&hd=1 "It just sounds like words sometimes and language and verbiage, but I'm telling you, I've been in the trenches. I know what it's like. I know how desperately we need jobs, real jobs, jobs that are not driven by a government handout because the government money will dry up, jobs that are not driven by a grant because the grant runs out, real jobs that comes from real profit and business owners do unique things." - Rudy Carrasco, Partners Worldwide (USA) 2012-03-20T21:02:26+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/v/JtgSJ-VgjrM?version=3&hl=en_US&hd=1 http://www.youtube.com/v/JtgSJ-VgjrM?version=3&hl=en_US&hd=1 "We often hear that half the world's population lives on less than two dollars a day, and I think that statistic ought to raise the question in our minds of what happened to the other half? Half the world's population are living on more than two dollars a day. How did they get to be there?" - Peter Heslam, Cambridge University (UK) 2012-03-20T20:46:45+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/v/1cGBNvrSbbc?version=3&hl=en_US&hd=1 http://www.youtube.com/v/1cGBNvrSbbc?version=3&hl=en_US&hd=1 Michael Matheson Miller discusses the PovertyCure initiative on Grand Rapids community television. 2012-03-20T16:31:17+00:00 Michael Matheson Miller joined host Dave Jaconette on March 19th on WJRW Radio in Grand Rapids, Michigan for an interview touching on a number of subjects including 3rd world poverty, Kony 2012, entrepreneurship in the developing world, and even a discussion of the HHS mandate issue. 2012-03-20T16:16:09+00:00