Want to evangelize your business? Brent Cohen knows how. After years as a fundraising and marketing specialist in the snake pits of Washington D.C., Cohen heard a higher calling and co-founded CircleBuilder.com, a social networking platform for faith-based communities. In this interview, Cohen talks about mixing religion and technology, shifting...
Woman working with children of war-torn Burundi earns world's largest faith-based humanitarian award for social innovation SEATTLE, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Seattle University and the Opus Prize Foundation today awarded the $1 million Opus Prize to Marguerite "Maggy" Barankitse for her work providing safe havens to 30,000...
Audiences reached through innovative collaboration include faith-based organizations, legislative and business leaders, media MIAMI, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- PR Newswire has partnered with Black PR Wire to offer the issuers of press releases the most robust distribution available to reach the African American and U.S. Caribbean media,...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other leading health experts agree that the threat of a flu pandemic is real. They say that it is not a question of IF a flu pandemic will occur, but WHEN it will...
Religious schooling in America; private education and public life. Jones, Steven L. Praeger 2008 188 pages $49.95 Hardcover LC427 Jones (sociology, Grove City College) examines the debate over the place of faith-based schooling in...
A HUNDRED people attended a conference to raise awareness of forced marriages and honour-based violence in South Tyneside. The conference, held at South Shields Town Hall, brought together representatives of community, voluntary and faith-based groups that tackle domestic abuse. Among the guest speakers was Jasvinder Sanghera,...
FROM CHRISTIANS in Hawaii to Buddhists in Connecticut, and from Jews in New York to Muslims in Wisconsin, people of all walks of faith are finding a myriad of ways to care for the environment, states a first-of-its-kind report from the Sierra Club. According to the report, "Faith...
Fall Semester Marks Faith-Based Scholarship & Mentoring Program's Largest Class Ever LOS ANGELES -- The Ascending Lights Leadership Network ("Ascending Lights") announced today that it awarded a record eight new community college scholarships for the fall semester, bringing to thirty-seven its total number of students from urban communities...
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Pax World Management Corp., investment adviser to Pax World Funds Pax World, a leader in the field of sustainable investing, today announced the launch of the new Pax World Money Market Account PWMMA at ShoreBank, the nation's first and leading community development and environmental banking institution. ...
JEAN LAFITTE, La. -- Julius Moll stood and watched as workers tossed chunks of his mother's life into a heap in the front yard of her ruined home: shards of soggy drywall, muddied mattresses, carpets, bed frames, a vacuum cleaner. "It's hard watching this," Moll, 61, said. "But...
Moddelmog to Stress Organization's Global Promise to End Breast Cancer Forever WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Hala Moddelmog, president and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the CureR, the leader of the global breast cancer movement, will participate Tuesday evening in a "Symposium on Breast Cancer Global...
The First Congregational Church of Oakland, which is on Harrison Street across from Whole Foods, is home to several performing arts and faith-based organizations. The Romanesque-style complex was built in 1925 and was designed by noted architect John Galen Howard. Dinners, weddings, receptions and quinceaneras, as well as classes and...
Evangelical Activist Heads 'Faith-Based' Office The Bush administration has named an evangelical Christian author and activist as the new director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. In late August, Jedd Medefind replaced Jay Hein, who resigned to take care of a family illness. Medefind,...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has released a new toolkit, "Sustaining Grassroots Community-Based Programs: A Toolkit for Community- and Faith-Based Service Providers." The kit contains six booklets that cover strategic planning, fund raising, marketing strategies, organizational assessment, and other topics. To order the toolkit, contact SAMHSA by...
PITTSBURG -- About two dozen representatives from the law enforcement, health care, faith-based and youth-services sectors met Monday morning to discuss how they can work more effectively to curtail gang activity in East County suburbs. The task force meeting was a follow-up to last year's East County...
A VETERAN of Democratic Party politics and a former aide to representatives Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and James Clyburn (D., S.C.), Burns Strider was senior adviser and director of faith-based outreach for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. After the Clinton campaign ended, he founded the Eleison Group, a communications firm...
The director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Jay Hein, has resigned to care for his ill father, who is battling cancer. Hein, the White House office's third director, will leave August 29 and return to Indianapolis, said spokesperson Rebecca Neale. Hein alerted his...
Affinity-centric groups now have a web-based solution that keeps their members connected. ihiveLIVE.com, a turn-key social network and social commerce platform, launched by Tri-Media Integrated Marketing Technologies Inc., combines online network capabilities while employing precision marketing and social commerce tactics that extend customized offers to network, or "hive," members. The...
Thor Equities last month hosted more than 1,000 members of eight separate Coney Island religious congregations at Astroland amusement park in Coney Island--part of a free "Night of Faith." Led by renowned local leader and founder of the Salt and Sea Mission in Coney Island, Debbe Santiago, she and her...
The most in-depth study on the role of faith organizations in the Katrina recovery GOSHEN, Ind., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- MMA Praxis Mutual Funds and ICCR celebrate their sponsorship of the Institute for Southern Studies recently-released report "FAITH IN THE GULF COAST," the most in-depth study on...
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