A Bridges Community that adopts the Cincinnati Works model will be able attract new businesses to the community.
Not long ago I visited Cincinnati Works with Scott Miller, Karin Van Zant, and Jason Upthegrove to see how Cincinnati Works works. How do they place almost 700 people a year in jobs and get an 85% retention [...]
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I recently read Kay’s blog where she’s writing about being asked by her governor to chair a committee on education. In her blog Kay concludes that part of the problem with education is poverty. I’m happy to see she is digging deeper into the issue of poverty and is using A Framework for Understanding Poverty [...]
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Recently there has been a rush of communities asking how to go about building a Bridges community. We’ve heard from people in Kent, Ohio; Boulder, Colorado; Ludington, Michigan; and
Kings County, California (to name just four). At the same time as some established Bridges communities are deliberating about how to integrate Bridges with a Circles™ initiative, [...]
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It has been almost three years since the Gulf Coast was hit hard by the one-two punch of Katrina and Rita, and still 80,000 displaced people need homes. aha! Process is now going to work with investors and builders to build homes and communities using Bridges strategies. The Bridges into Prosperity: a Hurricane Katrina Disaster [...]
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We prefer people who are passionate—even if we don’t always agree on everything. This is what we can agree on when it comes to poverty:
We know that children from poverty can learn.
We know we can make a difference in the lives of individuals from poverty.
To learn, these kids need and deserve a great education, relationships [...]
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So, here is a game plan: Let’s help 1,000 families out of poverty and show the nation what that takes and what makes it so difficult. Then let’s spread the idea of Circles into 1,000 communities for the purpose of giving people something they can do about the condition of poverty. With a large, assertive [...]
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Recently Dr. Paul Slocumb, author of Hear Our Cry: Boys in Crisis, presented a workshop on boys to a group in Wichita, Kansas. This is an e-mail Dr. Slocumb received from an attendee:
Dear Dr. Slocumb:
I was in your audience in Wichita, Kansas on Tuesday, September 4, 2007. You autographed my book. When I returned to [...]
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Many people report that they had aha! moments when they first heard Ruby Payne’s ideas. (Hence the name of her company!) I certainly had an aha! moment. I was in the backseat, on the way to dinner with my wife and some other friends, reading A Framework for Understanding Poverty. When I put it down [...]
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Scott Miller’s new book, Until It’s Gone: Ending Poverty in Our Nation, in Our Lifetime, is now available. Here are three reasons you’ll want to read this book:
First, you’ll learn about the Circles Campaign. The Circles Campaign is taking off like a rocket, faster than we imagined. I mention the Circles Campaign to every audience, [...]
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Imagine a group of thirty women and men sitting around a table. Imagine that they come from wealth, middle class, and poverty. Imagine that they represent different points on the political spectrum and that they work in civic organizations, nonprofit organizations, education, government, the private sector, and faith-based organizations.
Imagine that those women and men are [...]
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