On November 20th, 2019, the Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) hosted the “Barbed Wire to Business Accelerator—Fueling Growth through Impact Investing” event at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. The event showcased three Prison Entrepreneurship Program graduate-owned companies. Sharks included Mark Holden (Koch Industries), Biggs Burke (record executive and film producer), Doug Deason (Dallas investor), and […]
By Jay F. Hein 1 Finding Justice A trip on the President’s helicopter, Marine One, was surely an unusual place to see the streams of justice, truth and grace come together. It would be more likely that raw power would be on display as we lifted off from the South Lawn and escalated toward the […]
Commonwealth’s Jay Hein worked closely with Ron Blue to establish the RBI at Indiana Wesleyan University. Click to listen to Ron’s vision. The Ron Blue Institute for Financial Planning, which focuses on applying biblical principles to all areas of the financial decision making process, opened in January 2012 at Indiana Wesleyan University. The Institute is […]
Jay Hein’s presentation on Rethinking Wealth
Americans give $1 billion per day. What is their ROI? Nonprofits account for 1 in 10 jobs in the American economy. What is their social impact? These two questions point to the promise and perplexity of giving and serving in America. In contrast to economies at the base of the pyramid where social distress is […]
From Made to Flourish: It’s a late spring day in St. Paul, Minnesota, and I’m standing in front of the Ravoux high rise apartments, a public housing project. When a bright, multicolored bus pulls into the complex, the waiting crowd outside includes several residents. The Twin Cities Mobile Market has arrived. For the past two years, […]
From Made to Flourish: A few years ago in a powerful op-ed in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof wrote that “the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, […]
Click here to read Amy’s article at Issue.com.
From Made to Flourish: What does poverty feel like? Congregants from Macedonia Baptist Church and other churches in Made to Flourish’s Kansas City Network wanted to find out through the Cost of Poverty Experience (COPE) this past March. What is COPE? Unlike other poverty simulations, COPE lets you step into the shoes of families living in […]
We often read that an unexamined life is not a healthy or realistic way to live, yet when it comes to money, we tend to shy away from what Scripture teaches us about how we spend, give, and save our money. Practicing the King’s Economy: Honoring Jesus in How We Work, Earn, Spend, Save, and […]
