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Upper Midwest Bridges Conference Unites Community to Fight Poverty
There comes a time in the lifecycle of every Bridges community when a bigger voice is needed to get the word out to garner additional commun [...]
Bridges Out Of Poverty: North Carolina Community Starts Progam
In Davidson County of northwestern North Carolina, community members participated in a Bridges Out Of Poverty pilot program brought to town [...]
Mental Models of Economic Class
“12 Thinking Tools for Bridges Out of Poverty Communities” by Philip DeVol is being presented in 12 separate blogs. The paper is for people [...]
North Carolina Community Builds Bridges Out of Poverty
Three women in China Grove, North Carolina have set up a Bridges Out of Poverty program in their community. Originally drawn towards foreign [...]
Our newest book, Bridges to Health and Healthcare, is now available!
If you have unlimited means, our U.S. healthcare system looks pretty great. If you're middle class, the view may not be so great, and if you [...]
Bridges of Hope Turns Life Around for Oklahoma Woman
Tina Bushee was struggling: without a high school diploma or a steady job, she relied on her husband and two children for support. Her old h [...]
Framework Wins AAP Golden Lamp Professional Development Award!
On Wednesday, June 4, 2014, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) awarded its 2014 Golden Lamp Award for Professional Development to [...]
Triple Lens
“12 Thinking Tools for Bridges Out of Poverty Communities” by Philip DeVol is being presented in 12 separate blogs. The paper is for people [...]
Bridges Out of Poverty Helps in Rogers County, Oklahoma
The Bridges Out of Poverty and Getting Ahead programs have helped people from Rogers County, Oklahoma who live in poverty. This northeastern [...]
Bridges Out Of Poverty Helps Idahoans in Workplace
A new Bridges Out Of Poverty program is working with a local organizations in the Idaho panhandle to get people in poverty into the workplac [...]
How do we calibrate student work to drive achievement?
aha! Process founder Dr. Ruby Payne touches on this topic in the May 2014 edition of AMLE (Association for Middle Level Education) Magazine. [...]
Bridges Out Of Poverty Workshop Offers Glimpse at Suburban Poverty
A Minneapolis organization called People Reaching Out to Other People (PROP) recently held a Bridges Out of Poverty workshop in Eden Prairie [...]
Cost of Poverty to Community Sustainability
In a recently released white paper titled "Cost of Poverty to Community Sustainability," Dr. Ruby Payne outlines the "multiplier effect," th [...]
Ruby Payne Discusses Poverty at United Way Education Event
Ruby Payne spent an hour and a half talking to the crowd at the United Way’s Women’s Philanthropy Connection during its annual education eve [...]
The doors are open. Now, how do you support them, retain them and graduate them?
I recently read an article titled, The Good that Community Colleges Do, Part 1. What I like about this article is not the controversy or whe [...]
Community-Wide Bridges Out of Poverty Training: Strategies for Professionals and Communities.
The Cayuga/Seneca Community Action Agency presents community-wide Bridges Out of Poverty training, to be held at Springside Inn on May 21. T [...]
CACAA Implements Getting Ahead Initiative
The Capital Area Community Action Agency has introduced the nationally recognized anti-poverty initiative “Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-B [...]
Bridges Out of Poverty Aims to End Generational Poverty
The group of more than 100 people, from several organizations, attended Thursday's "Bridges out of Poverty" training course sponsored in par [...]
The Motivation Puzzle
By Bethanie Tucker Our students are, in many ways, like puzzles. Almost all are born with the "pieces" needed to sustain lifelong motivation [...]
aha! Process Publishes an Amazing Book About One Couple’s Mission to End Poverty
Dreams are wonderful. Ideas are great. Ideals are fantastic. But what really, truly counts in the end are the results. Most of us have dream [...]
Community Health Clinic – Bridges Success Story
By Debora McDermed, Ph.D A Nevada local health clinic is currently a partner to the Bridges initiative, and the following story is a work in [...]
Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities
Nonprofit organizations are hoping to team up with city leaders and local businesses in a project stemming from the Oklahoma "Bridge the Gap [...]
Ruby Payne Urges Community Leaders to Tackle Poverty
National poverty expert and author Ruby Payne blended stories about her family and experiences as a teacher to motivate more than 250 people [...]
Forgotten Rainbow
The Wizard of Oz was always a favorite of mine as a kid, and, to this day, I see similarities in my own story. I always felt that my life be [...]
Bridges Out of Poverty Workshop Hits Close to Home for Steve Ivancie
When Ivancie first moved to Routt County in 1980, things were great economically. Work was abundant, and tourism was peaking. Then things ta [...]