Posted in Community, Move the Mountain, Scott Miller on Oct 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
Whether we are poor, middle class, or wealthy, we have all normalized poverty. The primary mindset change that needs to occur is to see poverty as the real, life-threatening emergency that it is. Research tells us that people die early living in poverty. Dr. Ruby Payne describes the condition of poverty as being caught in [...]
Posted in Circles Campaign, Scott Miller, Strategies & Techniques on Jul 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
A look at the principles of community building used in Circles™
1. Building relationships across class and race lines is awkward. You will need to have a new language to help people succeed at this. Move the Mountain has partnered with aha! Process, Inc. for this reason: Bridges Out of Poverty provides the language needed to [...]
Posted in Circles Campaign, Community, Scott Miller on Apr 10th, 2008 2 Comments »
Research says that adults laugh 15 times a day. Kids, on the other hand, laugh 400 times a day! Why the difference? Because we get isolated as adults, and our thinking becomes impaired as a result. We get too serious on our own. We lose perspective. Whether we are in poverty, middle class, or wealth, [...]
Posted in Circles Campaign, Community, Diversity, In the News, Platform for Economic Justice, Scott Miller on Feb 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Circles Campaign, Community, Question/Answer, Scott Miller on Jan 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
What are Circles™?
This is the first question I get asked by anyone new to our work. If you visit www.movethemountain.org, you will find our standard description of Circles™. But let me give you a more conversational response.
Circles is permission to join a family and help make a huge difference in how they experience life. Poverty [...]
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