 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | Impact franchises | | If you are a business person and want to run your own business, why not consider an impact franchise? Impact franchises are commercial franchises that have social impact beyond that of job creation.
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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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