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A local family has been making an impact on the Toledo area for more than 50 years. Giving struggling families a place to ...
The Easter season is about more than candy and egg hunts for a local nonprofit. In Scranton, Friends of the Poor held their ...
Honoring the legacies of its patron saint and its founder in serving the poor and addressing the root causes of poverty, the ...
While teaching at Bangladesh’s University of Chittagong in 1976, Muhammad Yunus interviewed a stool maker named Sufia Begum.1 Because Sufia did not have the 22 cents she needed to buy bamboo, she ...
Through a mix of cases, books and guest speakers the course will attempt to identify the principal opportunities, challenges, and limitations of businesses and nonprofits in serving the poor. The ...
In 1983, the bank became an independent entity. Today more than 1,050 branch offices serve more than two million clients. Despite predictions from traditional bankers that Grameen's clients would ...
It comes as the stock market has been roiled by the chaos of Trump’s erratic, unnecessary tariff wars, and as companies that service the poor are reporting changes in consumer behavior.
Under the so-called “10% definition”, a household was considered fuel poor if it needed to spend more than 10% of its income on fuel to maintain an adequate level of warmth, defined as 21 degrees in ...
"If you're a goaltender, tend the goal!" Here's how those brave protectors of the pipes try to stand against every shot whipped their way. 🏒🥅 ...
There are no easy answers, but there are profound lessons to be learned from the past, especially from movements of poor and ...
Britain, France and the Netherlands have all announced plans to cut their aid budgets by around a third, and others are ...