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Open Hands: Breaking down barriers to success
What started as an idea envisioned in a living room at a CFW Legal Fellowship meeting is now a full-fledged non-profit in its 10th year of providing free legal services to low-income and homeless New Yorkers. Founded in 2009 by a group of Christian attorneys, Open Hands Legal Services uses “the law as a powerful anti-poverty tool,” says Board Member and Treasurer...
May 13, 2019 -
Business Plan Competition Winners Announced
After a rigorous six month process, the Center for Faith & Work is excited to announce the 2014 Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business Plan Competition Winners. For-Profit: China Vision In China, 50% of preventable blindness is due to untreated cataracts. ChinaVision is going to help change the way eye care is provided in China. Not-For-Profit: ...
May 5, 2014 -
Where’s The Value in Calculated Risk?
By: Keith Park An interesting situation has cropped up in the auto industry. On one side, you have GM embroiled in the midst of an embarrassing botched recall and on the other side is one of the most exciting and unlikely startups the country has ever seen. In the GM situation, a case can be made that the company did not believe a recall made business sense...
April 3, 2014 -
Corporate Social Responsibility
By: Diana Mao In CFW’s Gotham Fellowship, I learned that the first corporation was the church. This came as a surprise to many in the Gotham program. Probably because of the fact that the corporation is seen as this evil entity – polluting the waters of 3rd world countries, exploiting the most vulnerable and appeasing shareholders in a profit-maximi...
March 11, 2014 -
“Spiritual Malady” in Finance? It’s In the Heart
By: Daniel Kwon In his recent Op-Ed in the NY Times titled For the Love of Money, Sam Polk does an insightful job of addressing and analyzing the root of the cancer that plagues the financial services industry: the idolization of power. Polk starts by discussing how he was lured to Wall Street by the prospect of immediate wealth and power. In his fir...
February 24, 2014 -
Do What You Love
By: Thomas Martin Seemingly positive and beneficial personal beliefs and aphorisms, such as Do What You Love, have consequences for the wider culture, as Miya Tokumitsu shows us in her article published in Slate. In the same way that doing what you love can be damaging if unchecked, Sam Polk describes first-hand how doing it For the Love of Money can have person...
February 3, 2014 -
Incubator & Bubble
By: Calvin Chin Crains New York Business published an article about incubators fueling our local tech economy. Given our stagnant local and national economy, one should not criticize entities that try to support new companies in the name of job and wealth creation BUT can anyone who follows entrepreneurship keep up with the proliferating number of incubators or ...
September 10, 2013 -
Becoming the Best Place to Work
By: Sherry El-Gawly Unemployment levels in the U.S. as of July 2013 are 7.4%, vs. a pre-crisis level of 4.7% at the same time in July 2007 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). Employee engagement and satisfaction with organizational workplaces has fallen to modern day lows, with employees anxious for the job market to recover so they can “hightail it out of organizati...
August 15, 2013 -
Opt-Out, Lean In… Two Sides of the Same Coin
By: Cindy Chang Mahlberg A decade ago, The New York Times Magazine coined the idea of The Opt-Out Revolution to describe the phenomenon of highly-educated career women who opted-out of the workforce to focus on raising their children. Last week, the magazine published another feature story entitled The Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In, revisiting some of th...
August 14, 2013 -
BPC Winner Tegu In The News
By: Brett Gaudin 2009 Ei Business Plan Competition winner, Tegu, was featured in today’s SF Chronicle Biz & Tech section, highlighting their originating ties to the San Francisco area, including a recent installation at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco. Tegu is a toy company that seeks to foment job creation and e...
August 6, 2013
