Check out my previous blog for some context… This is part two. Helping Hand As the HUD Secretary, the context of Carson’s position focused on the government’s role in domestic poverty. He said that he believes that government can provide a “helping hand” to people looking to climb
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Object Lesson In my new book – If You REALLY Want to Help – I share a story of an object lesson we’ve been using with community leaders since the beginning of 410 Bridge. It goes something like this… When we meet with leaders in the early
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To Get Things Done I turned 60 a couple of years ago. I hadn’t struggled with starting milestones decades before, but the decade with a 6-handle felt different. It meant I was entering the fourth quarter and there wasn’t going to be over time. What changed
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Our 410 Bridge team in Kenya held their first-ever Community Service Day on April 8th in the community of Tumutumu. This was a special time for the 410 Bridge staff to give back to the community, bond with the local Leadership Council, and create lasting relationships with the
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In the midst of our affluent Western homes, societies, and lifestyles, we all think we have a pretty clear understanding of what poverty is and isn’t. And unless any of us have been living under a rock for a few decades, we’ve all heard the phrase, sometimes
Read more →It has been said that life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. The season brings a richer sense of expectation, and we feel ourselves leaning into the last three months of 2014 with great anticipation of all that is to come. Perhaps
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