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About the Lausanne Global Conversation
The Lausanne Global Conversation was an online platform for connecting participants in the Lausanne Movement's Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa (Cape Town 2010) before, during and after the Congress.
The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library. Other content contributed by Global Conversation users is archived on this website. Read more »
Social Entrepreneurship Funding
Ideas for funding a social entrepreneurship ideaRead more…
A Social Solution, Without Going the Nonprofit…
A great article on using for-profit entities to do non-profit work and a great example of what it looks liked to be a socially-conscious entrepreneur.Read more…
Book Review: The White Man’s Burden
This book is a strong rebuttal of Jeffery Sach’s work, The End of Poverty. Easterly’s thesis is, over the last 60 years USAID’s, World Bank’s, etc., top-down method to eradicate poverty has been a total failure.Read more…
Book Review: The End of Poverty
Jeffrey Sachs was a professor of Economics at Harvard for 38 years and was a major consultant for many nations. He now heads the Earth Institute. His views on the causes of poverty are very different than what is normally thought or presented.Read more…
Book Review: Out of Poverty
This is another book about how to get the world out of poverty. It is based on the work of Paul Polak who started International Development Enterprises (IDE)Read more…
Book Review: Empowering the Poor
Poverty is not so much the absence of goods as it is the absence of power, the capability of being able to change one’s situation.Read more…
Book Review: Creating a World Without Poverty
This is Professor Yunnus’ latest book which talks about establishing Social Businesses which is different then Social Enterprise. This is an excellent book on clarifying issues of poverty and the place of business in dealing with poverty.Read more…
Book Review: A Framework for Understanding Poverty
This is an excellent book to understand poverty and worth owning for review. I am including some of the key charts.Read more…
The Importance of the Trinity in Building Healthy
The Trinity not only helps us make sense of our salvation in Christ, it also provides the intellectual and moral foundation for the equal dignity of men and women. The Trinity leads us to the glorious revelation of the individual within community.Read more…