Advancing well-being in an inequitable world - 2
From The Thriving Places Index
The Thriving Places Index is a new way to look at the strengths and challenges of the place where you live in England or Wales. It shows whether the conditions are in place for people to thrive – in a fair and sustainable way.
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Advancing well-being in an inequitable world - 1
From a report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundatio
What can we learn from multiple countries about advancing well-being—a notion of health that extends beyond the absence of disease? Need to radically expand the definition of progress to include well-being as a complement to economic vitality.
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The SDGs Game
Geoff Knott
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?
From a talk by Dr Lant Pritchett
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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Purple Shoots
From an article by BusinessNews Wales
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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Estates evangelism
From the Synod address by Bishop Philip North
In February 2019, the Bishop of Burnley, Philip North, spoke on a motion to have a church community on every significant social housing estate in the nation.
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The 99 best things that happened in 2018
From a blog by Angus Hervey, Future Crunch
Reading the media can be very depressing - it does not give a holistic view of what is happening in the world - and some great things happened in 2018.
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Hidden in plain sight
How one church found abundance in a community of material poverty. Viewing people - not programmes, finances, etc - as their most valuable resource moved church members beyond their own walls and out into the streets, where they discovered..
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