Due to the coronavirus thousands of blood drives have been cancelled. The American Red Cross is currently facing a severe blood shortage as a result. I have a friend who is college aged, immunocompromised, and reliant on blood transfusions every couple weeks. She is urging everyone who can to donate. Places that normally conduct blood […]
Category: Local outreach
Team Rubicon
In a world were natural disasters can happen anywhere, there are businesses who fight back with help for communities and restoration. One of the companies is Team Rubicon. Since 2010 Team Rubicon has been restoring natural disaster areas all around the United States and overseas. They are a non profit organization that run off of […]
The Rabbit Room
The Rabbit Room is a faith-based, non-profit organization that seeks to share the beauty of God’s creation and truth through music, art, story, and poetry. Inspired by a visit to C.S. Lewis’s Oxford home, musician and author Andrew Peterson founded the Rabbit Room (named after the back room of the pub where the Oxford Inklings […]
Compassion Village
Churches and Businesses are often seen as two separate entities that are both afraid to get involved with the other. However, a project called Compassion Village uses the strengths of each as a way to reach under-privileged or homeless people in Sacramento. It was created by the E49 Corporation and Compassion Enterprises that build partnerships […]
JoyCorps
JoyCorps is a business centered around redemptive entrepreneurship and empowering businesses to drive innovation in desperate areas around the world. Since 1999, JoyCorps has been involved with businesses dedicated to economic development in the developing world. They noticed that entrepreneurs with redemptive centered ideas face tremendous challenges when it comes to running profitable businesses in […]
Looking For Change
Recently my home church, in Quakertown PA, expressed a desire change as it seems the church is having trouble brining in younger families and is having difficulty with close proximity and “backyard” type ministries. When my parents informed me about this it got me excited because of what I am learning right here in this […]
VOMO (Volunteer Mobilization)
VOMO (Volunteer Mobilization) is an engagement platform for organizations to recruit and manage volunteers for various projects that they have. With a redemptive focus, they link and provide for for-profit businesses, Churches, not-for-profit organizations, and school with the volunteers that they have access to. Customers that they have range from notable universities like the University […]
Project Ink’d
Art fascinates me, but over the last couple years one particular form of art has really stood out among the rest and captured my interest, the art of tattooing. The concept of having a permanent piece of art on your body is so interesting from a mental standpoint without even beginning the discussion regarding the […]
Divine Innovation (or is it Intervention?)
“The Columbus Dream Center is a volunteer-driven organization dedicated to providing hope to low-income, homeless and under-served individuals and families in Columbus, Ohio.” Once upon a time, thirty years ago to be exact, Pastors Steve and Wanda Campbell built a ministry entitled The Better Way in downtown Columbus. This ministry started as a small safe-haven […]