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Business as ministry for a world without poverty

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Encourage, equip and connect business and professional people in global partnerships that grow enterprises and create sustainable jobs, transforming the lives of all involved.
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Partners Worldwide Today is the (last) day! Cast your vote for Partners Worldwide to win $25k from Chase Community Giving!

It can be incredibly rewarding when your vote has a local impact. Chase is giving away $5 million to various charities and needs you to help pick which ones. Simply vote for your favorite nonprofit and then get friends and others on Facebook to do the same. You can sele...ct from over 500,000 charities that focus on education, healthcare, housing, environmental issues, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services, and animal welfare. Give your charity the recognition it deserves and needs with Chase Community Giving. It's a new Way Forward for giving. See the Official Rules http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/home/rules for complete eligibility requirements.
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Partners Worldwide Chase is giving away a total of $5 million dollars to charities that YOU vote for! There are 2 days left to make your vote count, so go here to vote for Partners Worldwide. (Psst, and tell your friends!)

It can be incredibly rewarding when your vote has a local impact. Chase is giving away $5 million to various charities and needs you to help pick which ones. Simply vote for your favorite nonprofit and then get friends and others on Facebook to do the same. You can sele...ct from over 500,000 charities that focus on education, healthcare, housing, environmental issues, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services, and animal welfare. Give your charity the recognition it deserves and needs with Chase Community Giving. It's a new Way Forward for giving. See the Official Rules http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/home/rules for complete eligibility requirements.
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Partners Worldwide Holiday Book Sale! Buy 2 or more copies of My Business, My Mission and get 1 FREE!

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This book will inspire you to join the ranks of people who are fighting global poverty—one partnership at a time.
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Partners Worldwide Partners Worldwide in today's Wall Street Journal

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In the Houses of Worship column, Rob Moll writes about the growing number of missionary businessmen.
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Partners Worldwide Re-thinking the "Teach a Man to Fish" proverb

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Word Made Flesh is called and committed to serve Jesus among the most vulnerable of the world’s poor. This calling is realized as a prophetic ministry for, and an incarnational, holistic mission among the poor. ...
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Partners Worldwide Evangelicals for Social Action article written by Benny Poosawtsee covering the Partners Worldwide Summit!

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Word Made Flesh is called and committed to serve Jesus among the most vulnerable of the world’s poor. This calling is realized as a prophetic ministry for, and an incarnational, holistic mission among the poor. ...
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Partners Worldwide Watch this great video produced by LEAD Intern, Karen.

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Yamah was a refugee, but now has returned to Liberia and is a successful business woman. Liberian Entrepreneurial and Asset Development (LEAD) works with small business owners in the war torn country of Liberia, helping them grow through business training and access to capital.
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Partners Worldwide Partners Worldwide intern, Derek Hoogland, is just getting settled in Liberia. Be sure to keep up with him on his blog.

derekhoogland.blogspot.com
Follow me as I spend twelve months interning with Liberia Entrepreneurial & Asset Development, In the Name of Christ.
Derek Hoogland
Derek Hoogland
Aw, thanks Mike!
October 27, 2009 at 7:17am
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Partners Worldwide A great look at what its like to go on a vision trip with Partners Worldwide.

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I started the week by spending my first day back at work on Tuesday driving to Indianapolis for an I-69 meeting... not quite what you'd call "easing back into it"... on the road before 8 a.m. and back home well after dark!
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Partners Worldwide More than a loan -- "small, small" things make a big difference in Liberia!

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Matthew is the proud owner of the self-titled business “Matthew’s Transportation Service” where he works as a taxi driver. Last year Matthew completed a three month business training ...
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Partners Worldwide The
Grand Rapids staff is taking a lunch each week to study Business as Mission. We just completed discussing the Lausanne Business as Mission Paper. This is a great
resource for anyone looking to gain deeper insight into the BAM
movemement!

www.lausanne.org
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Partners Worldwide Only 2 weeks left to register for the Partnership Summit in Grand Rapids!

September 15, 2009 at 7:00pm
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Partners Worldwide If you are coming to the Grand Rapids area for the Partnership Summit (Oct 8-9), be sure to take advantage of the many local events taking place for ArtPrize!

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Official ArtPrize & Sponsor EventsWristband wearers will get preferred access to most events. Purchase a wristband when you register to vote.Events Around TownOther events happening for patrons and artists of ArtPrize. Email events@artprize.org to add an event.
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Partners Worldwide Snack bars that promote peace? Chocolate that save endangered species? What are you thoughts on this idea of "consumption philanthropy?" This article concludes: "Surely, genuinely philanthropic benevolence would call not for more consumption, but for the elimination of the conditions that make philanthropy necessary."

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Consumption philanthropy may be unsuited to create real social change.
Ian
Ian
I wholeheartedly disagree with the author on this. Rather than labeling consumption spurred by the market as wrong across the board shouldn't the intent be to make the consumer aware of the choices he/she makes with each purchase and the possible impact of that choice? An informed choice would garner a different result rather than advocating staying away from "the market." Changing the system by operating outside of it? please...
August 18, 2009 at 9:34am
Derek Hoogland
Derek Hoogland
I agree that the change needs to happen from within the system, but I often wonder if charity is occasionally 'too easy'; a point Eikenberry brings up herself. My biggest concern here is what our real motivations are. In a world where socially conscious consumer choices are trendy and even lend the buyer a sense of status, I sometimes question ... See Moreour trues intentions: real social action or just warm fuzzies. Maybe our token market decisions as individuals really are just distracting participants of consumption philanthropy "from collective solutions to collective problems" on a larger scale. Here, there is a real disconnect between the consumer and where change is occurring because the impact lines are not always transparent. Yes, the real change will occur in the markets, but it will take a dedicated group of consumers, keen on making smart choices on principal and not because its the in thing to do. Then companies claiming to be socially conscious can be held more accountable.
August 18, 2009 at 10:40am
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Partners Worldwide Business as Mission Network spreads the word about the Oct 8-9 Partnership Summit!

www.businessasmissionnetwork.com