 | | Supplier resilience equals supply chain resilience | | The Mars-Tanager mint partnership shows how diversified income streams, gender inclusion, applied agricultural research creates a more resilient, sustainable agricultural sector. What are the learnings?
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| | From a webinar by Business Fights Poverty |
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 | | Why do we assume faster is better? | | Why do we assume faster is better? There are things in life you want to compress, accelerate, make more efficient. And there are things where value is precisely in inefficiency, in time spent, in pain endured, in effort you have to invest.
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| | From an article by Behavioral Scientist |
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 | | Redemptive entrepreneurship | | Creative restoration by business through sacrifice using the agency, resources available. Blessing others, renewing culture, giving of ourselves - an “I sacrifice, we win” approach. Fundamentally other-centred: to love, serve.
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| | From Praxis Labs |
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 | | Why we struggle to share power | | The social business space is filled with people who want to make a positive difference. But for many Westerners, the work of empowering vulnerable people goes against several deeply ingrained cultural norms. What are they?
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| | From an article by Next Billion |
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 | | Kitty's Laundrette | | A community launderette and social space in Liverpool, run by the community for the community. High-quality, affordable ecological laundry services and an accessible social space for people to gather, talk and learn.
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| | From an article by the School for Social Entrepren |
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 | | Pursuing failure to test innovations | | We grow up trying to avoid failure. But with Testing before Investing we do the opposite-pursue failure. If we're going to fail, we want to fail early and small. Then we learn, adapt, iterate for a better solution.
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| | From an article by Spring Impact |
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 | | The Biblical basis for entrepreneurship | | If we only focus on certain aspects of God's story, it has very significant impact on how we understand the role of business and what the Kingdom of God is about.
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| | From a talk by Matthew Rohrs, CEO, Sinapis |
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 | | Harnessing AI for social impact | | The intersection of AI and social impact presents extraordinary opportunities for positive change. Improving efficiency, optimizing resource allocation, developing innovative products, and helping better decision-making.
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| | From an article by Impact Entrepreneur |
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 | | Can AI be ethical? | | As AI becomes advanced and integrated into aspects of society, it is crucial to address potential ethical implications of its use. There is a consensus that development of ethically aligned AI systems is imperative. Some insights..
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| | From a report by Digital Leaders |
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 | | Imposter syndrome | | Impostor-related thoughts and feelings lead to unproductive behaviours which are costly to individuals and their organisation. An estimated 70% of achievers - men and women - have experienced impostor syndrome.
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| | From information by Dr Valerie Young |
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 | | Alternative Walking Tours - Invisible Cities | | Invisible Cities is a social enterprise that trains people affected by homelessness to become walking tour guides of their own city. The training focuses on confidence building, public speaking and customer service.
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| | From an article by Reasons to be Cheerful |
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 | | Pursuing a generous lifestyle | | We were surprised by wealth. The question then became how do we use this wealth to honour God? That's not a simple question. Money tends to hold power over us. Giving really takes away that power and dethrones this control.
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| | From a video by Faith Driven Investor |
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 | | God in a construction company | | 5 lessons and counting from leaders who have given a company to God and are stewarding it... Listening and obedience, united prayer, wise counsel, trust and rest, fathering..
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| | From an interview by Heaven In Business |
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 | | A 3D-printed BioHome, a 100-percent recyclable house | | Printing a home in as little as two days and thanks to its natural composition from wood left over by local mills, the home acts as a carbon sink, sequestering 46 tons of carbon dioxide per 600sq-ft unit.
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| | From an article by Reasons to be Cheerful |
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 | | Your Workspace Matters | | Your physical workspace has spiritual significance. You carry the presence of God into the workplace. It can be a surprisingly hostile place as a result. So how can you pray effectively over that space?
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| | From a book by Amy Lykosh and Bob Perry |
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 | | Food as freedom | | The ability to know where your next meal is coming from is empowering. If you don't know how to answer that question, as the hunger pains increase, you will do whatever you can to get food on the table.
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| | From a video by Thinq |
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 | | The vocation journey of Cam Moss | | "Currently I own a small business that helps other businesses with their people problems. I have a background in missions, then into being a pastor and then into the business world..."
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| | From an article by At Work On Purpose |
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 | | The demand for spiritual care in the private sector | | The boundary between HR and chaplaincy is that chaplains have to be neutral. That ability is critical so that they can move in and out in a liminal way (occupy a position on both sides of a boundary).
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| | From a video by Chaplaincy Innovation Lab |
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 | | This is My Place: Fatima's Story | | Fatima was married with three daughters and was working for the NHS in Cardiff. But sadly, throughout her marriage, she experienced domestic abuse. She divorced and had no home to go to...
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| | From an article by Resonance |
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 | | Community-led digital inclusion support | | How do you reach people who aren’t online? Or people not interested in learning digital skills? One way is via local digital inclusion hubs. 3000+ UK organisations form the National Digital Inclusion Network.
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| | From an article by Digileaders |
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 | | 6 temptations of an entrepreneur | | Temptation 1: Listening to the undermining voice of fear. Temptation 2: Expecting long term results in the short term. Temptation 3: Thinking that working harder is just better than working smarter....
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| | From an article by Stronger Network |
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 | | Tools to reduce age bias in recruitment | | Older workers (defined as aged 50+) make up approximately one third of the workforce, yet face numerous disadvantages during the recruitment process. Here are 3 tools to to minimise age bias...
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| | From a report by the Behavioural Insights Team |
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 | | Tpel - an entrepreneur's story | | "It’s a journey, but I’m learning to lean into the Lord, to manage my time and prioritise tasks to make it manageable. Because I believe running a business is like...
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| | From an article by LICC |
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 | | Business as mission and the Church | | Report highlighting how every Christian in every marketplace can become ambassadors of the gospel–priests in their own parish–as they do business as an act of worship - equipped, discipled, covered by the local church.
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| | From a report by Business as Mission |
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 | | Silvopasture | | Ancient practice of raising animals and growing trees and pasture on same piece of land. Combats climate change well ahead of solar panels, recycling , etc. Pastures with trees sequester 5 to 10 times as much carbon as treeless ones.
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| | From an article by Reasons to be Cheerful |
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 | | Storyville Gardens | | To challenge literacy statistics, Storyville is designed to ignite the desire to read by toddlers to teens and adults alike. It is an imagination-driven, interactive entertainment destination where stories engage and connect.
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| | From an interview at Q Ideas Culture Summit |
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 | | Three great commissions | | A business leader told me that, when he began his career working for a mission organization, he was often prayed for at church. But when he later decided to go into business, those prayers stopped...
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| | From an article by Faith in Business |
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 | | Producing energy from waste water | | A cassava mill in Indonesia now supplies 9.8 GWh of electricity to the local grid per year – enough to supply 20,000 people with clean, reliable energy, while reducing emissions by 30,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.
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| | From an article in Pioneers Post |
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 | | Thinking of bookshops as cultural civic centres | | “Reimagining Bookstores is a movement for strengthening communities, deepening literacy, paying living wages”. Independent bookstores “need to have a broader vision - not just be a channel for publishers.”
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| | From an article by Stanford Social Innovation Revi |
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 | | The fifth industrial revolution | | “I see a crisis of trust in technology. In the Fifth Industrial Revolution, we’re going to have to have a chief ethical and humane use officer. Are we using these technologies for the good of the world?”
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| | From articles by Regenesys Business School and Dig |
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 | | Selling as a way to bless customers | | How do you see sales or how do you see the act of selling? What if it was actually a way to serve, or bless others? Reaching out to a customer as a friend. Effectively putting love into it...
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| | From a talk at Faith In Business |
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 | | The dignity of work | | It is a phrase which is growing in usage, but what does it mean? Examples from experience of working, an exploration of biblical perspective and why it is relevant to all of us.
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| | From an article by Beautiful Enterprise |
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 | | It takes one person to change a company | | While corporate transformations are almost universally assumed to be top-down processes, in reality, middle managers and supervisors can make significant social impact change when they have the right mindset.
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| | From an article by Harvard Business Review |
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 | | From textile waste to refugee livelihoods | | In 5 years, Refugee Artisan Initiative has diverted 5,000lbs of textiles from the landfill and produced 120,000 items, 37 women have earned £400,000 in income, and eight have launched online shops.
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| | From an article on Reasons to be Cheerful |
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 | | Creating a 'Social Business City' | | Taoyuan City, Taiwan has created “an enabling ecosystem for social businesses, social enterprises and social innovation” by removing obstacles and giving them the “power, means, opportunities and authority to pursue their goals”
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| | From an article by Pioneers Post |
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 | | Social Impact Entertainment | | The term social impact entertainment (SIE) broadly refers to entertainment media that aims to drive progressive social change - typically via raising awareness of an issue and then promoting some form of behaviour change on the part of the audience.
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| | From an article by Nesta |
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 | | There's never a right time to start a business | | If you can carve an amount of regular time into your busy diary, do not underestimate the power of what you can achieve. Our lives, whatever we do, don't stop us from building a business - it's the perception of our time.
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| | From an article by Holly and Co |
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 | | BUILD 2022 - merging tech skills with faith | | A weekend hackathon of cross-church productivity, focus, community building, and worship. Project with biggest potential for Kingdom impact was.. Project people would've liked to work on besides their one was..
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| | From an article by Kingdom Code |
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 | | Tiny farms | | Sparking the creation of a swarm of biointensive microfarms that can be run by people with other jobs. Clusters of these farms can supply regional food to supermarkets, caterers, schools, etc within a radius of 50 miles.
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| | From an article by Reasons to be Cheerful |
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 | | Knowing when to quit | | “What are the signs that, if I see them in the future, will cause me to exit the road I’m on? What could I learn about the state of the world or the state of myself that would change my commitment to this decision?”
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| | From an article by Behavioural Scientist |
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 | | The Washing Machine Project | | 70% of the world does not have access to an electric washing machine. Hand washing clothes is time and water-consuming.affecting livelyhoods, health. The Project developed an off-grid, manual machine, which saves 60% of time and 50% water.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Masaka Creamery | | "I can say that it's a blessing for the company and also to the community to employ youth with disabilities or hearing impairments. I've come to realize that actually they're not disabled because they are so committed."
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| | From a video by Faith Driven Investors |
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 | | Buying local - food | | In Colombia, a law mandates all gov. agencies that buy food eg hospitals, schools, etc., buy a min of 30% of food from local small holders/farms. Addresses rural poverty, cuts food miles, helps food security, creates local markets.
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| | From a presentation at a GoLab Conference |
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 | | Own your own source of low cost green power | | Ripple Energy offers people part-ownership of a wind farm with 1000's of others as a co-op. This gives consumers direct access to UK's cheapest source of electricity-helping reduce bills and carbon footprint.
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| | From information from Ripple Energy |
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 | | The case for Living Wages | | Paying living wages throughout core operations and the value chain strengthens business performance, resilience, stability, while delivering measurable social impact and enabling more effective delivery on human rights obligations.
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| | From a report by Business Fights Poverty |
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 | | Facing the poverty tsunami | | COVID, conflict, climate change are some of challenges driving tsunami of poverty already crashing into lives of vulnerable people, communities around the world. An extra 1bn people will live in poverty. How can business help?
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| | From a paper from Business fights Poverty |
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 | | The Outcomes Matrix - plan and measure your social impact | | A useful tool to a) Gain a starting point for planning and measuring your social impact outcomes, b) Communicate your impact to social investors and key stakeholders and c) Think about future areas of development for your organisation
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| | From a resource hosted by Good Finance |
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 | | Work: The Bigger Picture | | God is intensely interested in how each of us uses the talents, resources, power, opportunities, and freedoms he’s given us at work. And why wouldn’t he be? He loves us.
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| | From a video by LICC |
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 | | Pureflow - a founder's story | | There are over 1M motorcycle drivers in East Africa and less than 20% own their bike. Pureflow's lease-to-own program gives opportunity to own. This creates sustainable income, opportunities to save, and financial independence as well as kingdom growth.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | The importance of prayer for entrepreneurs | | Why would my business look the same as someone who didn't know God? One of God's favourite ways of growing our businesses is by growing us. He does like to work internally as well as do things for us externally.
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| | From a podcast by Faith Driven Entrepreneur |
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 | | The miracle of the dirt | | The site that needed levelling was solid rock in every direction, the dirt/gravel needed would bankrupt him. John turned to prayer and the Lord revealed that something big was going to happen that day...
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| | From a video from the producers of The Chosen |
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 | | 21st Century Pioneers: Faith, enterprise + social purpose | | Christians are playing a key role in purpose-driven businesses, social enterprises of all sizes, across the UK and a wide range of sectors. Working in business is a vocation for many. Renewal is happening today and needs to be encouraged.
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| | From a report by Jubilee Centre |
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 | | The 5 vital signs of a scalable idea | | Some ideas that initially seem so promising fail to work on a bigger scale - voltage drops. There are five specific and universal causes of voltage drops and how to avoid them. If these can be overcome then...
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| | From a blog by Behavioral Scientist |
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 | | Being a witness at work | | God determines where we live, where we work, and who we work with. And he has given you a unique set of workplace relationships. As a Christian, the best chance your colleagues have of hearing the gospel is probably through you.
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| | From a video by A Passion for Life |
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 | | Faith changes everything about your work - 2 | | You need to be preaching in ways that talk about their work, thinking about city impact from their work, what work suffering does in their hearts, blogging about their work, visiting them at their workplaces.
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| | From an article on Redeemer City to City |
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 | | Faith changes everything about your work - 1 | | By seeing something broken and trying to care for people impacted by that brokenness, an act of love in the workplace led to natural evangelism conversation about how it all began because of Christian beliefs.
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| | From an article on Redeemer City to City |
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 | | The Flourishing Business Canvas | | The Flourishing Enterprise Innovation Toolkit is a management innovation to enable leaders to design their flourishing enterprise: socially beneficial, environmentally regenerative and financially viable.
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| | From Flourishing Enterprise Innovation |
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 | | Entrepreneur: Don't worship work | | Solomon identifies four areas of work life that disappoint us. Entrepreneurs need to keep a close eye on each of these, lest well intended efforts become vapour. Solomon also has four truths to help avoid the dangers..
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| | From an article by Faith Driven Entrepreneur |
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 | | Decarbonising transport | | Two examples of green innovation. Replacing a diesel transport refrigeration unit could be the equivalent of removing 31 cars from the road and solar foils which can be customized to any vehicle rooftop.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Boardroom of the future? | | In many cases, board members are limited by the traditional rules and culture of business. There is an opportunity to engage key people involved with your business, tackle the challenges that lie ahead and make necessary decisions.
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| | From an initiative by B-Lab UK |
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 | | More than a receptionist | | All of us are God's ekklesia. We can transform whatever environment we're in. And we can transform all these different industries, including the medical industry, to become more loving, and for God's hope to be spread instead of despair and hopelessness.
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| | From a session at the Transform Our World conferen |
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 | | Poverty Cure | | We are called to a loving and generous concern for the poor. We often ask what causes poverty. But the real question is; how do people create prosperity for themselves, their family, and their community?
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| | From information by Poverty Cure |
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 | | Humanising the supply chain | | Marianne Hughes was a regular shopper on the High Street when she heard about a factory collapsing in Bangladesh. She became fascinated by: "Who made my clothes?" and set out to do whatever she could to find an answer...
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 | | Lessons in scaling for impact | | ‘Impact at scale’ remains a buzzword; widely talked about but little understood, especially when it comes to practical implementation. Spring Impact have distilled the lessons learned in 10 years of helping mission-driven orgs to scale.
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| | From a report by Spring Impact |
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 | | Becoming | | The interview question is, "How would working here help you become who you're hoping to become?" "It is an amazing opportunity for people to experience being truly cared for. The way that we care for people feels like the gospel fleshed out."
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| | From a video by Faith & Co |
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 | | 51 percent | | "What I did was an act of obedience. God asked for shares in the business. I gave him shares and now the owner of this business is God. He wants to help people out of poverty and correct the wrongs of the past. And it starts with faith."
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| | From a video by Faith & Co. |
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 | | Worth It | | The old way of treating employees as an expense to be minimised is not effective as treating them as valuable assets and human beings. It hinders growth and keeps everyone from realising their full potential.
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| | From a book by Dan Price, CEO Gravity Payments |
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 | | Basic patterns of impact businesses | | An analysis of 500 example organisations having social impact showed 12 different groups of businesses with 24 sub-groups. All solve social problems through business action.
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| | From a report by Reframe Ventures |
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 | | Risk, Reward and Values | | Kingdom entrepreneurs are people whom God has gifted with the ability to create and innovate enterprises, culture, products and services in a way that demonstrates human redemption. They are being prophetic to their world.
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| | From a book by Nick Nicholson |
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 | | Unleashing the potential of young people | | There is a shift in the important skills to develop for future workforce - social and emotional in nature e.g. empathy, creativity, leadership, adaptability. Business leadership essential to address skills gap.
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| | From a paper by Standard Chartered Bank |
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 | | Putting nature at the core of business strategy | | After building a strong foundation, with new products e.g. plant-based gouda + cheddar, Willicroft are making every decision, whether related to packaging, supply chain or energy, on effect on the planet.
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| | From an article by Pioneer Post |
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 | | The 'experimental revolution' in business | | A fundamental shift in the way businesses make decisions is taking place. Traditionally, running experiments has been the domain of scientists, but managers across industries have been adopting them to inform decisions at an unprecedented scale.
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| | From an article by Harvard Business Review |
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| | Beating the bias in AI | | As organisations implement machine learning algorithms, it is crucial that we understand the implications of the biased decisions AI can make. ETIQ have built tools to detect and stop the bias, unfairness and bad decisions.
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| | From an article by ETIQ.AI |
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 | | Proof Bakery | | Situated in Coventry, Proof Bakery was founded as a social enterprise to help refugee women learn professional baking skills and find steady employment. Their specialties are sourdough bread, focaccia and Middle Eastern-inspired bakes.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Modern slavery due diligence technology | | Slavery is an issue of our time and exists in all industries and countries. Companies are expected to conduct ongoing due diligence. Failure to act creates ethical, operational, reputational and legal risk.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Kingland Global | | Dennis Yandi runs a motor spare parts business in Nairobi, Kenya. He shares stories of how the Lord is giving him opportunities to serve Him through the business.
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| | From a story sent out by Sinapis |
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 | | Integrating work and faith - 2 | | There are believers in every domain of work, in every single pathway that you can imagine, who are living out their faith in these really profound ways that they often don't even recognise as being particularly profound.
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| | From a study 'From Secular to Sacred: Bringing Wor |
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 | | Integrating work and faith - 1 | | The experience of work is more positive for people who have strong faith commitment and who live that out in their life. Increased satisfaction with their job and commitment to the organisation that they're working for.
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| | From a study 'From Secular to Sacred: Bringing Wor |
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 | | Business as ministry | | Business people have not been affirmed in their gifting in the body of Christ. And business itself remains a largely untapped resource for global mission. How do we achieve the paradigm shift from where Sunday and Monday are disconnected?
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| | From a conversation by Business As Mission |
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 | | The Lantern Network | | Imagine that friends got together, built out an ecosystem of microchurches, little businesses, not only to sustain livelihoods, but to engage culture and bless it. Someday they might say, "You're making it hard not to believe."
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Stewardship as surrender | | After travelling on various short-term mission trips, Robert Kim started imagining the role of investing as a tool to uplift communities – as a conduit of God’s blessings. He sets out 3 elements of stewardship..
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| | From an article by Faith Driven Investor |
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 | | Jericho social enterprises | | Providing people with work, training in their social businesses, projects. They are breaking barriers, changing lives. 7 businesses offering goods, services to their communities and employment to local people who need it most.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | 5 checkpoints for work as worship | | Is our business a God-centred business, using profit for giving, innovating best products and services, building good processes, nurturing people? An altar to worship Him in a deeper, meaningful way?
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| | From an article on Leadership.com.sg |
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 | | How poverty makes workers less productive | | Poverty is like a parasite, consuming mental energy that could be put to more beneficial use. "Being poor is like having just pulled an all-nighter, and that hurts the ability to escape poverty."
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| | From an article by NPR |
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 | | What does it mean to be a Christian entrepreneur? | | There are hundreds of Christian entrepreneurs who struggle with anxiety. Why? It relates to identity. It comes from a feedback loop that doesn’t come from their time in Scripture, but from society at large.
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| | From an essay by Henry Kaestner of Sovereign's Cap |
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 | | Home insurance for those needing it most | | 1/3 of of South Africa live in informal dwellings in settlements, rural villages. Many are shacks. For people living, working, raising families in these conditions, insurance protection is unavailable. Until now.
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| | From an article by Insurance Thought Leadership |
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 | | Ethical Addictions | | They prayed that EA would be a company that honours God; gives back to the communities they buy from; build relationships with people and do right by them... Now 14 years later, Covid hits..
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| | From a guest blog by Ian Meredith, head bean at Et |
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 | | Redemptive entrepreneurship | | A vehicle and language for vocation. How do I live who am I called to be if I'm not called to be a pastor of a church? How are we equipping people to actually do the work of the kingdom through the work of their calling?
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| | From a video of the Un-Famous Collaborative Confer |
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 | | Impact-Weighted Accounts | | The legitimacy of a business should depend on its ability to create value for society. How do you measure that and create accounting standards that reflect a company’s financial, social and environmental performance?
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| | From an article by the Institute of Chartered Acco |
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 | | LivFul | | Their mission is to discover, develop, and distribute life-saving, life-innovative products to those who need the most help around the world.
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| | From a presentation at Praxis Labs The Gathering 2 |
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 | | What is prosperity? | | Prosperity is much more than mere wealth or economic growth. True prosperity is when all people have the opportunity to thrive and freedom to fulfill their unique potential taking responsibility for contributing to their communities and nations.
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| | From material by Legatum Institute |
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 | | Creating community in work | | "My purpose in life is to glorify God, to know Him, and to make Him known. My strength is being able to have conversations with folks. I feel I'm in a ministry every day. I was called to be a missionary in my own backyard."
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| | From a video by Faith Driven Entrepreneur |
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 | | Turning customers into activists | | Tony’s Chocolonely was set up in 2005 with a clear purpose: “Together we make chocolate 100% slave free”. It pursues that purpose by producing and selling chocolate. They actively track down and combat child labour.
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| | From an article by Corporate Rebels |
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 | | Helping small businesses to grow - a story | | Clyne started a company in 2019 with just one van which supported the family and repayments on the van. He needed funding to expand to the next level but found it difficult to get money. He now has 3 vans and...
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| | From an article by Purple Shoots |
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 | | Time to reset capitalism | | To build a future where all people can work with dignity, care for themselves and loved ones, where our planet is healthy, our economy thrives, we must reimagine our economic system so it works for all of us today and long-term.
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| | From Imperative21 |
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 | | Best practices | | Victor Ho's start-up hit a rough patch and needed to lay off 50 people. Best practices suggested handling this with surgical precision. Victor felt compelled to take a different approach that was consistent with the company’s values.
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| | From a video by Faith and Co |
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 | | Time for a plastic paradigm shift | | Plastic pollution is getting worse, and fast. Solving this growing problem requires creating a plastics economy that is smart, sustainable, and circular. 10 critical findings re actions..
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| | From a report by Pew Trusts |
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 | | The Stump | | There is a proverb that the rich think their wealth protects them; they imagine themselves safe behind it. But a life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump. Some reflections..
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| | From a track by Z317 Music |
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 | | From outsourcing to ethical sourcing | | Every employer has the power to effect significant social change right now – through their purchasing and outsourcing decisions. Three key tests..
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| | From a report by Clean for Good |
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 | | Social enterprise and the Church | | What if our models shifted from donations to empowering sustainable initiatives that spark lasting change in individuals and communities? Sharing the love of Christ can extend in powerful ways to the hurting and hungry.
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| | A follow-on from the blog 'Let's continue to build |
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 | | Weakness is an invitation to connect with God | | We are told success is the thing to pursue and woe betide if you show weakness along the way. Yet God says, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.”. As a result both we and the world are deeply blessed.
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| | From a blog by Heaven In Business |
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 | | Vallejo - the impact of the MTS Training Academy | | A programme with dramatic results as a company dedicated to God ministers to the re-entry population: people that have been released from prison and helping them get re-established in society.
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| | From a video by Transform Our World |
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 | | Let's continue to build community - employment | | Employment in our communities will be affected by Covid-19. Many people will struggle to find employment they are used to. Churches i.e. the people, can have a pro-active role to play. This could be...
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| | From a talk by Mal Fletcher at an Everything event |
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 | | A second chance company | | Many employees who join Nehemiah Manufacturing just need a chance to prove themselves. "If I had to describe it in one word, it would be grace. When society deems that we are out of chances, Nehemiah gives us another chance."
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | The unstereotype experiment | | If you could help to broaden the way people see themselves and the world around them, could they be more open to questioning how they might inadvertently stereotype people and will that help inclusivity?
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| | From a video by Unilever |
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 | | Tech for good in the fight against coronavirus | | The emergence of technological solutions has been one light at the end of the tunnel. Details about some of the most innovative tech solutions that have sprung up throughout the world.
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| | From an article by Business Chief |
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 | | Olderpreneurs needed | | Entrepreneurship has also never been a route just available to the young. A growing number of people over 50 are joining the start-up community, using skills, experience they have accrued in order to start a successful business.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | My job is caring for people | | Jamie was very task focused but now understands he has to lead in a relational way - praying "Lord, break my heart for my team." Result is an incredible workplace where people feel loved and supported.
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| | From a video by Kingdom at Work |
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 | | One action can have a big impact | | How can business support the most vulnerable in value chains and communities in the face of Covid-19? Examples of how businesses around the world are responding.
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| | From an article by Business Fights Poverty |
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 | | Pivoting your business in response to Covid-19 | | The Covid-19 crisis has made it necessary for many commercial companies to shift their business models quickly. Many are repurposing their assets to create new value, protect the brand and survive.
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| | From an article on Business.com |
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 | | When I Grow Up | | What would happen if the 99.5% of Christians working in the marketplace saw their job as sacred?
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| | From a video by Kingdom at Work |
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 | | Mind Your Own Business | | Launching your own business or social enterprise is a big leap of faith. A new free business start up workbook can be used by individuals or a small group working together.
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| | From an article by MYOB |
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 | | Principles for Purposeful Business | | Eight principles aiming to re-organise the corporate sector around purpose and around corporations’ contributions to solving social, political and environmental challenges.
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| | From a report by The British Academy |
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 | | Norwich Mustard - story of a co-operative | | Since 1858, Norwich has been the home of mustard but in Jan 2018, Unilever, which owns Colman’s, announced they were moving production. Local people came up with an idea to start their own cooperative community business.
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| | From an article by Power to Change |
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 | | The world’s first 3D-printed neighbourhood | | A giant 3D printer is creating new homes in rural Mexico. Each takes 24 hours and lets local families upgrade from a shack to a two-bedroom house. Could this be part of the global housing solution?
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| | From an article by Fast Company |
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 | | Beneath the Ink | | In Zanesville, Ohio, USA, tattoo artist Billy Joe White has started a crusade to "erase the hate" and has offered to cover up swastikas, Nazi images, and other hate-filled ink for free. He's been very busy.
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| | From a video by GQ Video |
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 | | Lessons learned from B Inspired | | A conference hosted by B Corps attended by over 600 people looking to explore the changing role of business in society. Some insights from a delegate.
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| | From an article by Nishita Dewan of CollaboratEQ |
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 | | Good Business: Ethics at Work | | Quakers and Business Group have published an updated edition. Acts as a guide and inspiration to running a better and ethical business for the benefit of all its stakeholders.
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| | From a publication of Quakers and Business Group |
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 | | Business in the context of a God who has given it all | | Keep these pivotal things in your mind from scripture - love God, love your neighbour. Am I trusting God? Am I looking outwards to those who are in greater need than me? Is my business in the context of a God who has given it all?
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| | From a talk by David Urquhart, Bishop of Birmingha |
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 | | Second Shot Coffee | | When Julius Ibrahim became increasingly interested in tackling homelessness, backed by social investment, he opened Second Shot Coffee, a social enterprise café in East London.
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| | From a case study by Good Finance |
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 | | William Hartley | | Founder of Hartley's Jams. Looked after his workers and suppliers. Set aside a specific portion of income for religious and philanthropic purposes. This %age was continually increased.
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| | From a biography by Arthur Peake |
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 | | Are you willing to give God your diary? | | I began to pray over my diary, emails and phone every week and asked God to be my Chief Scheduling Officer. I began to see the goodness of God in how my schedule seemed to align so specifically and detailed each week.
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| | From an article by Heaven in Business |
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 | | Want to be an innovative company? Think neurodiversity. | | The business world is now recognising that a neurodiverse workforce is more creative, innovative and productive, and one in which people with a range of strengths, backgrounds and viewpoints contribute to success.
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| | From an article by Wellbeing Pulse - the blog of t |
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 | | Who's job is it to build a better society? | | Who's job is it to build a better society? What if employers encouraged colleagues to look for marginal gains in society in the roles that they're already paid to do? It's good for motivation, good for business, good for society and needn't be complex.
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| | From a TEDx talk by Joanna Finlay |
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 | | Open Mic music events - what an opportunity | | Sunday..the band is great, the songs are amazing-all that creativity + talent up front for 30 mins, helping us focus on God. Is that it though? If God has given such talents + his command is to go, what could you do?
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | The SDGs Game | | The 2030 SDGs Game participants wake up to the systemic impact they already have. They see ways they can take action to make positive change that they previously had not considered.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | How to make poverty history? | | We need to get rid of some intellectual weeds; the idea of a poverty line, a main cause of poverty is about people and their decisions, we can reduce poverty by focusing on the poor, that redistributive or targeted programmes are key to poverty reduction.
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| | From a talk by Dr Lant Pritchett |
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 | | Teaching prisoners coding | | "It’s rare to meet so many passionate learners, and their drive is humbling and contagious to be around. Graduates are now working as programmers, product managers..."
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| | From the Code 4000 initiative |
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 | | Circle Collective | | A London social enterprise running skate and streetwear stores. Helps young people break down barriers keeping them from work. 76% find employment. An initial 9 people helped has become 400.
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| | From an article in The Big Issue |
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 | | Self-Reliant Groups | | Small groups of people who come from a shared economic and/or social background to support each other, develop friendships, save, share skills, start small businesses.
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| | From an article by Nesta and WEvolution |
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 | | Childlike faith… in business? | | How does being childlike work out in the context of work? Being childlike in a business environment is surely exactly what we don’t want to be? Being childlike, worry free and totally dependent on someone bigger and stronger than yourself.
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| | From a blog by Heaven In Business |
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 | | Purple Shoots | | A not-for-profit microfinance organisation, set up to tackle unemployment and economic problems in communities. Helps people on benefits or a low income to start their own businesses, lending to people who are excluded by the traditional lenders.
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| | From an article by BusinessNews Wales |
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 | | Thought for the day | | Kelly Stewart is an employee at Taco Bell in Camillus, New York. She always tries to include an extra serving of inspiration with her customer orders by taking the time to write inspiring quotes and encouraging anecdotes on the back of customer receipts.
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| | From an article by Good News Network |
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 | | Recipes rebuilding lives | | What started as a pilot in a home, has now developed into a charity with chefs who are refugees from all corners of the globe facilitating cookery classes for thousands of participants.
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| | From a blog by Migrateful |
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 | | The Ice Academy | | A programme from Ben and Jerry's to support people who have refugee status get back into business and remove barriers they face entering the job market.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | SENT: grow transformational leaders | | SENT is a new small group course from the Evangelical Alliance to help churches equip public leaders in their congregations to be transformational in the workplace.
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| | A small group course from the Evangelical Alliance |
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 | | UK employers' guide to hiring refugees | | Hiring refugees is an impactful way for companies to drive their business forward while addressing one of the most pressing challenges of our time - the global refugee crisis.
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| | A guide published by Breaking Barriers and Tent |
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 | | God is there and enough | | Sonny Vu and Christy Trang Le, co-founders of Misfit Wearables, have had their faith tested as entrepreneurs. But relying on their faith, they helped build up a company founded on servant leadership.
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| | From a video by Faith & Co |
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 | | Lean Impact - 2 | | Helping us figure out how to adapt best practises of innovation to the realm of social good. A lot of challenges have answers that are not clear and need different approaches that emphasise the speed of learning - what innovation is all about.
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| | From a talk by Ann Mei Chang |
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| | Lean Impact - 1 | | Helping us figure out how to adapt best practises of innovation to the realm of social good. A lot of challenges have answers that are not clear and need different approaches that emphasise the speed of learning - what innovation is all about.
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| | From a talk by Ann Mei Chang |
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 | | Repositioning the Church to reach the lost | | It's easier to attend a church that gathers lost people than become a people who alter communities. Yet God is not sending lost people into church; He sends the Church out into the world.
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| | From Scattered Servants by Alan Scott |
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 | | A behavioural bank | | A new digital-only bank aims to address financial risk by incenting five controllable behaviours - not spending more than we earn, not saving regularly, not having insurance in place, not paying off property and not investing for the long term.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Executive Toolbox | | Executive Toolbox run by LICC is a programme for Christian workplace leaders, which is uniquely structured to help you have a significant impact on the way you work, the people you work with and the organisations you work in.
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 | | Modular housing | | Products that could be used in small sites locally for rapid housing development. Quality housing, manufactured offsite to minimise on site disruption, whilst keeping the price well below the market average.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | God's healing for businesses | | Can the activities of businesses be affected by spiritual factors just as individuals are? Are there spiritual issues in your company that should be addressed and change brought to those areas?
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| | From a book by David Shadbolt |
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 | | Focusing on the 1% | | "We've got employees that have a label of 'ex-offender' but here they're producing product rated in the top 1% of coffees. We're doing that so that the quality of their work will change the perception of the public."
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | 3D printed low-cost housing | | Housing non-profit New Story and construction tech firm Icon debuted a 3D printed home for a project focused on providing low cost homes to house the homeless.
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| | From an article by ICON/New Story |
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 | | The spirituality of professional skills and business | | Of Jesus’ 132 public appearances, 122 were in the marketplace. Of 52 parables Jesus told, 45 had a workplace context. Jesus spent his adult life as a carpenter until age 30 before he went into a preaching ministry in the workplace.
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| | From an article by Business as Mission |
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 | | Hey Papa, got a minute? | | “If Papa had a physical office in our company, how many decisions would you make without Him and what decisions would you consult Him on?"
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| | From a blog by Co-Labor Ministries |
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 | | Where can I get a bag like that? | | Saddleback Leather is a business that supports ministry/missions, but also has a mission all its own — loving people, especially customers and employees.
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| | From a video by Faith and Co |
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 | | Luminary Bakery plans next steps | | Luminary is a social enterprise designed to offer opportunities for women to build a future for themselves. They use baking as a tool to take women on a journey to employability and entrepreneurship, equipping them with transferrable skills.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | What is your vocation? | | Remember when you were a child, and everyone always asked you "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Now that you are an adult, does that question seem easier, or harder, to answer?
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| | From a video by Kuneo Worship Gathering |
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 | | Monastery 2.0 | | In the past, some monasteries, communities of Christians, have focused on interacting with local communities to provide services, supporting themselves through work. What would that look like today? An example.
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| | From a film by Seattle Pacific University |
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 | | You won't save places you don't love | | The homes, the classroom, the workplace or the marketplace can become sanctuaries as we learn how to love those places and all who share them with us.
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| | From a video at a Faith@Work event |
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 | | Beauty out of brokenness | | "There's hope in broken people. There's beauty in broken things. That's not just what happened to us but what also God wanted to do through us - bring hope, expose beauty."
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| | From a film by Seattle Pacific University |
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 | | Grace Enterprises | | A network of businesses, big and small, aiming to provide meaningful employment opportunities for a whole range of people who might otherwise struggle to find work.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Bringing Jesus to work | | If you use the gifts He has given you to serve others and declare Him as the ultimate source of your motivation, you have a platform to speak about the saviour who calls us.
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| | From an article by the Evangelical Alliance |
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 | | Year Here | | A year to test and build solutions to some of society's toughest problems.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Going against the current | | "You don't drift toward holiness because the currents that we live in are all drifting toward the values of a broken world, the easy path, a lukewarmness that Jesus spat out."
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| | Froma vlog by WorkMatters |
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 | | The Barber helping men with dementia | | Lenny takes his pop-up barbershop to dementia care homes, providing a much-needed service to the men who reside there. But Lenny does more than cut their hair..
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| | From a video by BBC3 |
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 | | Recovery space | | Policy recommendations to ensure that people receiving medical support for a mental health crisis are protected from financial harm, and given space to recover
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| | From a report by the Money and Mental Health Polic |
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 | | Neighbourhood economics | | Why do we need to wait for government or authorities to steer money to local projects? Here's some ideas about getting the local community involved in action and funding.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Three changes for 2018 | | Relatively easy changes that businesses can make in 2018 that help people either avoid poverty or help them get out of poverty.
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 | | Food security and jobs for unemployed | | On the rooftops of the tall buildings in Johannesburg, a green revolution is happening - an initiative to create urban gardening businesses on vacant roofs aimed at creating jobs for the unemployed whilst at the same time providing food.
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| | From a report by the Thomson Reuters Foundation |
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 | | #Balanceitup | | Practical action for employers minded by the common good to help address the widening gap between top earners and lowest paid workers.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | StART Haringey | | A community group In North London aims to build 800 homes on a former hospital site, 75% of which will be genuinely affordable to local residents.
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| | From a blog by New Economics Foundation |
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 | | Wealth creation and the Church | | What is the role of the Church and its leaders in enlightening, educating, equipping, and empowering God’s people for the service of wealth creation?
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| | From a report by the Lausanne Movement and BAM Glo |
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 | | John Lewis Partnership | | The Partnership's ultimate purpose is the happiness of all its members, through their worthwhile and satisfying employment in a successful business.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Leading for mutual value | | Joe Garner, CEO Nationwide talks on how mutuality in business - an inclusive, self-reliant form of capitalism where people help one another, is more relevant than ever today.
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| | From talk by Joe Garner, CEO Nationwide |
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 | | Community-Led Development | | A look at community involvement in local planning which can then lead to self-build schemes as well as neighbourhood improvement.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Completing capitalism | | A different way of doing business following research from Mars Inc on 'What is the right level of profit for its business activities?'
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Always with us? | | Dr Liz Theoharis issues a strong theological call for ending systemic poverty in her book, 'Always with Us? What Jesus Really Said about the Poor'.
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| | From a book by Dr Liz Theoharis |
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 | | Everybody's Business | | How do we as Christians approach the whole business of economic development? (Lord) Rowan Williams reflects on ethics and enterprise.
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| | From a talk by Rowan Williams |
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 | | Change the World Course | | The Evangelical Alliance have created a 4 week 'Change the World' course for small groups. This course is intended for anyone who is interested in playing a role in transforming society,
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| | A small group course from the Evangelical Alliance |
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| | Marketplace vocation | | How do we labour? Through the practise of vocation - using our gifts and our talents to contribute, to not only the flourishing for our own lives, but for the world around us.
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| | From a talk by Greg Thompson and Gabe Lyons |
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 | | Thank God It's Monday | | How do you take a church focused on the few leaders to a church of the many helping people in the marketplace know Jesus? A pastor's story.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Care farms | | Promoting mental and physical health by giving people the opportunity to spend time working on the land.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Preparing for the 100 year life | | Envisage - a social enterprise helping individuals, businesses and community harness benefits of an ageing society and change way we transition into later life.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Work.Life | | A new Bible study resource from Navigators UK celebrates work as a crucial part of the life for which we were made.
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| | A Navigator Bible study about faith and work |
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 | | Men's Sheds | | A place where men feel at home and pursue practical interests with a high degree of autonomy. Considerable health benefits.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Business transforming a community | | Electrical contractors, the Weifield Group are making a lasting impact on their community by giving ex-offenders and drug addicts a second chance.
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| | From a video by the American Enterprise Institute |
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 | | The Resilient Business | | How do we move from individually living out Christian values at work to embedding a Christian ethos at the heart of our organisations?
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| | From a publication by the Jubilee Centre |
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 | | More than hair | | Whatever you do, wherever your work takes you, God has uniquely equipped you to serve and to meet people at their point of need.
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| | From an article from The High Calling |
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 | | The effect of purpose at work | | Ed Moy connected the everyday work of the U.S. Mint to a larger narrative and experienced a dramatic turnaround in employee morale.
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| | From a blog by The Gospel Coalition |
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 | | Hans Hauge | | Hans Hauge was born in 1771 in southeastern Norway into a farming family. Despite only having a primary school education, he read the Bible and devotional books daily. In April 1796, he was ploughing a field when..
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| | From material from Hauge Institute |
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 | | Commissioning people for the workplace | | Recognising and commissioning people for the work they do during the week is a powerful message that their work matters not just to them but to fellow Christians and, above all, to God himself.
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| | From an article by The Mockler Center |
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 | | Tutoring for disadvantaged students | | In the last year alone, 10% of all state-educated 11 – 16 year olds in England and Wales, about 280,000 students, were tutored. One quarter said they had received private tuition at some point in their schooling.
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| | From a report by Sutton Trust |
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 | | Servant leadership | | Jesus demonstrated servant leadership. How does this apply to leadership in an organisation? Robert Greenleaf articulated this based on his experience in business.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Café where diners pay what they can | | The Eating Place in Coventry doesn’t have prices on its menu. Coventry City Mission began the scheme in their café as a pilot project about a year ago to help people suffering from loneliness or poverty.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Quaker values and innovation | | What were the ethics and values that Quakers brought to business in the 18th and 19th centuries which brought them so much success?
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| | From Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury |
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 | | Paranaque City transformation | | In recent years, this city has been transformed, as the leaders have declared Paranaque a city dedicated to God. A major breakthrough occurred when permission was given to Christians to hold daily prayer meetings right in the heart of the City Hall.
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| | From Transform Our World |
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 | | Finding God in Business | | Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another. If God wasn't in 'business', it wouldn't even be there.
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| | A talk by Dr Dallas Willard |
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 | | Ten good reasons to hire ex-offenders | | "I find the staff we’ve recruited from prisons are among the best colleagues we’ve got. We see this as a great way of not only helping people but of getting people to work for us."
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Boots the Chemist | | A High Street name founded by a family of faith with the motive of bringing affordable medicines to the poor - breaking monopolies and transforming healthcare.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | This time tomorrow | | Churches in the Diocese of London are creating This Time Tomorrow slots in their services to encourage congregations to pray for their church family not just on a Sunday, but on Monday, Tuesday and every other day of the week.
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| | from an article Diocese of London |
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 | | A sign that read: “Want a Job. Anything Helps.” | | This month will be the first anniversary of Albuquerque’s There’s a Better Way program, which hires street people for day jobs tidying up the city in partnership with a local charity, St Martin's, that serves the homeless population.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Justice - practically living it out | | Richard Gough, General Secretary at the Diocese of London challenges us to think about justice as consumers, in the context of business and with our assets.
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| | From CapitalMass |
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 | | Mental health in the workplace | | The importance of supporting people’s mental health at work has slowly but surely gained recognition in the UK over the past few years, and with very good reason. Here are the key findings of a survey of 2000 employees by CIPD.
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| | From a report by CIPD |
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 | | What is Work as Worship? | | A helpful 3 min video from RightNow Ministries exploring how working in the marketplace with our God-given skills can be an act of worship. Many people spend a great deal of time at work and yet they don’t see how their work intersects with their faith.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | When you bless those who curse you | | You may have seen or experienced anger, mockery, opposition by those who disagree with you or perceive you as a threat. You will have seen such behaviour in society concerning local and national issues, using all sorts of media. How can Christians
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| | Transform Our World |
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 | | Advancing the Kingdom in the workplace | | A 3 minute video from Catalyst. Three Christians in the workplace tell of their ministry in the marketplace. Daniel, an entrepreneur from the world of fashion, Dawn, a nurse and Danny, a children's worker.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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| | Social action in the workplace | | "What is it about... spending so many hours of my life here? If it's only about trying to find the very rare occasion to talk about faith, well, something is wasted. What I had to learn is God's calling for me here.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Cyrus and James Clark | | Clarks Shoes started in 1825 as a business making sheepskin rugs and slippers. Their sheepskin slipper, named the ‘Brown Petersburg’, was a huge success. Within years of its unveiling, its unique design graced feet the length and breadth of the country
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Transforming work - small group resource | | "The primary action of the church in the world is the action of its members in their daily work." Leslie Newbigin. How can a church equip its congregation for the majority of the time they spend interacting with the majority of the unchurched world?
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Sir John Laing | | The story of John Laing of Laing Construction. From the early days, John Laing was concerned for the well-being of his employees. Although he expected much from his staff, he also worked consistently to see an improvement in their conditions.
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Joseph Rowntree | | By 1900 the Rowntree company had become one of Britain's most famous firms, both for its commercial success and in the field of industrial welfare. Rowntree was an influential social reformer as well as a businessman. He realised that old-fashioned
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Sir Titus Salt | | Sir Titus Salt was a successful 19th Century businessman who helped improve conditions for his workers, building a model factory and village. Influenced by his Congregationalist faith he brought a social conscience to capitalism at a time when many
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | Transformation | | A few years ago I read a book that has had a deep effect on me as a business person. The book 'Transformation' by Ed Silvoso tells us that 'Transformation begins with you!'
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| | Geoff Knott |
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