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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 -
Update from United Young: CFW Pitch Night Winner
By: TJ Loeffler, Co-Founder / United Young She quit. He quit. And I quit, too. We were employees. Now we’re United Young. The three of us. Kathleen, Jonathan, and TJ. We’re a mission centered technology company. And we’re building an app for you. For Church. Your church. Five months ago seems like yesterday! We went from CFW’s Pitch Night, to...
October 5, 2016 -
CFW’s Inaugural Entrepreneur-in-Residence
By Dave Evans Greetings Redeemer! What a joy it is to co-labor with you as your inaugural “Entrepreneur in Residence” at CFW. My journey started 40 years ago as a Stanford undergrad struggling to discern what God wanted me to do with my life. What did faith have to do with work? What was God’s perspective on engineering or business? I had no clue...
June 5, 2016 -
Dave Evans: What Innovation is Not
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.” Luke 16:10 What constitutes innovation from a Christian perspective? Innovation is a term widely used, but how does it line up with a sense of calling? Too often our concept of calling is stagnant and ...
December 2, 2015 -
EI BPC Winner Firebone Theatre Opens Red Flamboyant
By Retta Blaney Playwright Don Nguyen saw potential in a New York Times story about an HIV-positive woman who started the country’s first HIV support group for women in Haiphong, a large port city near Hanoi. But he questioned his ability to capture their reality. “I’m Vietnamese but I grew up in Nebraska,” he said. “They felt ve...
March 26, 2015 -
EI BPC Winner to Produce World Premiere of Award Winning Play Red Flamboyant
One of the things that Firebone Theatre is giving a new play or musical its first production. You saw them do it with their hit musical, Son of a Gun by Don Chaffer of Waterdeep, and with Chris Cragin-Day’s play, Emily starring Tony Nominee Elizabeth A. Davis. They are taking this track record to another level with their next project, Red ...
November 14, 2014 -
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Initative
By: Bethany Jenkins Someone with a passion for justice might pursue law. Another with an interest for communications might become a journalist. Yet another might become an investment banker out of a love for generosity. These passions, interests, and loves, however, can become disappointments when we go to work and discover that laws can corrupt, journalism can manipulate...
May 28, 2014 -
Announcing This year's EI Forum
By: David H. Kim The concept of disruption is a fascinating one and has been particularly significant for entrepreneurship and for understanding the dynamics of innovation. Economists like Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950), a contemporary of John Maynard Keynes, championed the notion that disruptive innovation leads to “creative destruction”, a well-know...
May 5, 2014 -
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 -
Arranging Flowers to Nourish the Soul
By: Bethany Jenkins Esther Larson is a part-time, self-employed florist (www.essiesflowers.com) and senior manager of affiliate development for Hope for New York. She is also a former Gotham Fellow through the Center for Faith & Work. How did you become interested in arranging flowers? I’ve been working with nonprofit, anti-poverty orga...
February 18, 2014
