By John Berry, St. Vincent de Paul of Georgia At St. Vincent de Paul we have discovered a cure for homelessness…it’s a home. I’m not trying to be glib here but it is a simple fact: we can prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place. People like “Charles” who is living on veteran’s […]
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Three Barriers to Financial Security
By Che Watkins,President and CEO The Center for Working Families Sometimes as a non-profit leader, I feel like I am playing a constant game of whack-a-mole. My mind has to change courses all day long – from staff to funders to board to partners to community to participants to stakeholders. All of those matter a […]
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Nero Fiddled While Rome Burns: 2018 Edition
By John Berry, Chief Executive Officer, Society of St. Vincent de Paul Georgia I think most, if not all of us have heard the expression ‘Nero fiddled while Rome burned’. It is ‘urban legend’ from 64AD (or maybe ‘fake news’?) because in reality it didn’t happen. Yes there was a big fire in Rome, but Nero […]
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THE WAY IT SHOULD BE
By John Berry Last Wednesday at the 2nd Annual Poverty Forum I was honored to moderate a lunch panel on legislative and policy issues in Georgia. That panel featured Taifa Smith Butler of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute and Kelly McCutchen of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. As you are probably aware, these two […]
