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2010 Starfish Community Expo

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Kyle Adams
76 Posts
1 Vote 10 Replies 1658 Views
Posted 2 years, 2 months ago, updated 1 year, 8 months ago
Please put the 2010 Starfish Community Expo on your calendar! The event will be: September 16-18, 2010 Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA Many of you were at the first Expo in October 2009, and I think it was a really productive time of sharing good ideas and making key connections ...

Community Development "Footprint"

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Kyle Adams
76 Posts
2 Votes 0 Replies 478 Views
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago, updated 2 years, 4 months ago
Several of you have asked about video from the Expo. Here is Camille Melki talking about his organization, Heart For Lebanon, and some of the challenges that are specific to Lebanon, and the benefits of working together in the Starfish Community. Camille also explains why healthy and stable communities in

agricultural category needed in fruit/orchard

Tami Brown
2 Posts
1 Vote 9 Replies 475 Views
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago, updated 2 years, 5 months ago
Critical potential for agricultural interventions is in fruit and orcharding. Let's add category of organizational and professional focus to reflect this.

Great Websites for People Groups

Kay Hiramine
96 Posts
1 Vote 1 Reply 461 Views
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago, updated 2 years, 5 months ago
I am attending a meeting today in Southern California talking about strategies to work in different countries. One topic discussed was looking at the different people groups in countries around the world. Here are some valuable sites for you to look at if you are interested in people

Generations of Virtue *New Website*

Sara Raley
3 Posts
2 Votes 2 Replies 487 Views
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago, updated 2 years, 7 months ago
Generations of Virtue is excited to announce our new website launched just a few moments ago. Please visit our site and see the myriad of ways that we could assist with training in purity, virtue and abstinence around the world. www.generationsofvirtue.org

Transformational education to next generation to empower disadvantaged poor

Tami Brown
2 Posts
0 Votes 1 Reply 264 Views
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago, updated 2 years, 7 months ago
Empowerment takes a long view and includes transformed world view and capacity of the next generation. I'm interested in discussing innovative solutions for standard education needs among traditionally disadvantaged communities.

Connecting Businesspeople with Business Opportunities

Randy Valentine
16 Posts
3 Votes 9 Replies 474 Views
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago, updated 2 years, 7 months ago
One of the things I'm tasked with at HISG is to connect business professionals with opportunities in our priority countries ... sustainable, holistic business opportunities. Tell me about your experiences -- either as a person giving assistance or as a person receiving assistance -- in this arena? In other words,

Damascus, what a place and very friendly

Norm Brinkley
7 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 293 Views
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
I was just in this location in the old city with tiny passages and twists and turns. Many Iraqi Refugees are being assisted from incredible folks with hearts as big as "all outdoors". These Iraqi refugees have incredible difficulties to live, since they are not allowed to work