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Aunt Clara Brown: Unearthing a Legacy of Compassion and Strength
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Brian Gray
Watch: Lessons Learned Leading the Paradigm Project

Neil Bellefuille founded The Paradigm Project, a social venture company that invests profit-seeking and philanthropic capital to create sustainable and scalable business models that deliver social, economic and environmental value within developing world communities. During the recent Social Entrepreneurship Forum, Neil explored: The differences between nonprofit and for profit funding and business models Using last-mile supply chains […]
Joanna Meyer
Watch: What I’ve Learned As An Impact Investor

Impact Investor Rich Hoops joined June’s Social Entrepreneurship Forum to share insight gained as Chairman of the Board at Impact Hub Boulder and a member of Social Venture Partners (Boulder.) Rich discussed: Transitioning from the corporate world to life as a social entrepreneur The challenges and rewards of international investment Managing risk in social investments […]
Three Things I’ve Learned after 20 Years in Social Entrepreneurship

As Executive Director of Belay Enterprises, a faith-based nonprofit organization that creates businesses to employ and job train individuals rebuilding lives from addiction, homelessness and prison, Jim Reiner has seen the benefits of social entrepreneurship first-hand. Over the last 15 years, Belay has launched 6 small businesses and helped hundreds of people rebuild their lives. Jim […]
Brian Gray
Understanding God’s Economy

Joy Anderson, President of the Criterion Institute and a mentor at the Unreasonable Institute and Praxis Labs, spoke at a Pastor’s Breakfast on the topic of social investment and God’s economy. The following interviews focus on her 1K Churches initiative, including 5 distinct investment pathways that churches can use to become more involved in investing […]
Upcoming Events

Eugene Peterson Video Event Join us  Thursday, September 25, for a special evening of learning from Eugene Peterson. This summer, local pastors and lay leaders visited Peterson–pastor, professor, and author of the best-selling Bible translation The Message–at his Montana home to ask honest questions about work, busyness, finding your calling, and vocation. The evening will include a catered […]
Jeff Haanen, Chris Horst
The Handcrafted Gospel

Recently I bought a small, red cabinet for my wife and kid’s homeschool books. It was from IKEA, so how hard could assembly really be? Yet in only 20 minutes, I had managed to drill three holes in the wrong side of the red cabinet door. My wife took the project away from me, and […]
Jeff Haanen
Global Issues Become Business Opportunities at Social Entrepreneurship Forum

“Every global issue is a business opportunity just waiting for the right kind of inventive entrepreneurship, the right kind of investment, the right kind of collective action.” – Peter Drucker Comb through the latest statistics on poverty or crime and you don’t have to look very far to feel discouraged: Almost 22% of American kids […]
Interview with Skye Jethani

Skye Jethani recently did a short interview with me on his new book, Futureville: Discovering Your Purpose for Today by Reimagining Tomorrow. In this interview, Skye and I discuss his own story as a pastor as he moved “from the pulpit to the pew,” why a biblical vision of the future affects how we live today, […]
Taking the Long View of Kingdom Work

Yesterday morning I sat down for coffee with Dr. Bob Cutillo. There are a few people in my life who leave me feeling not just refreshed, but almost nearer to Christ himself after meeting together. Bob is one of those people. We spoke about long-term plans for DIFW (he’s on the board), the lessons we’ve […]
What’s Wrong with “Do What You Love”?

We’ve said it for so long to graduating college seniors it’s become almost gospel. Do what you love. Do what you’re passionate about. Don’t settle for just a job. Follow your dreams. But is this wisdom or just hot air? Gordon Marino recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about his experience at St. Olaf […]
Jeff Haanen
Review of Young Money

Today Christianity Today published my review of Kevin Roose’s Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits. The book was literally hard to put down. As Roose unfolds the experience of eight young college graduates at the world’s most powerful investment banks, he captures the reader with a haunting portrayal of work that in almost every […]
How can Producing, Selling and Installing Stone Veneer be God’s Work?

Here’s the story of Chuck Stein, President and CEO of Environmental Stoneworks, and chair of the Denver Institute board of directors. Here are some questions to ask in a group context to discuss the video:Why do you think Chuck enjoys simply “building something?”How do you think Chuck’s company is influencing the community with their products? What if they […]
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