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We Are Better Together: Advancing Bridges Needs You
Over the last 10 years, Bridges Out of Poverty has taken off, both nationally and internationally. There are now more than 200 communities u [...]
Bridges Out of Poverty: Reducing Poverty from a Banker’s Perspective
As a CEO of a community bank, I have observed the devastating consequences of both generational and situational poverty. In fact, situationa [...]
Bridges to Health and Healthcare: Understanding a Patient’s Circumstances
By Jan Young, D.N.Sc., Executive Director, Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Inc., Memphis, TN Bridges to Health and Healthcare, a new book bein [...]
The Courier: County Homeless Coalition
County homeless coalition brings hidden crisis to light (11/13/2013) A Texas community has a large but fairly well hidden homelessness probl [...]
Under‐Resourced and Gifted: How Do We Work with These Students?
By Ruby K Payne. This is an excerpt - For the full article, see the October 2013 issue of AMLE’s Middle Ground magazine. Visit http://www.am [...]
Angelina Jolie and the Pink Lotus: What They Say about Bridges to Health and Healthcare
By Lucy Shaw, MBA, Author, Consultant, Transformative Life Coach for HeartWorks4U As Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to an end, most of [...]
I Am Here
By Carol Steegman Today my girls and I moved into our house. No—correction—our HOME! I am now sitting on our “new to us” sofa watching my gi [...]
Wonder Bridges Woman
The conversation went something like this. “How do we capitalize on the momentum gained from the Poverty Simulation?” My reaction: jumping [...]
Pinterest – A Teacher’s Best Friend
This is the first in a series of monthly blogs highlighting tips and tools from Pinterest that can make your life as a teacher easier. All [...]
News-Journal.com: Longview Conference Tackles Community Poverty
Longview Conference Tackles Community Poverty (10/16/2013) Ruby Payne gave a keynote speech along with two women who struggled to overcome p [...]
Reflection on Getting Ahead: Getting Ahead is sometimes hard to describe…
By Bonnie Bazata, St. Joseph County Bridges Out of Poverty Initiative Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World is sometimes hard to describe [...]
NBC News: I Know How It Is To Struggle
'I Know How It Is to Struggle': A Bridge out of Poverty in Mississippi Town (10/03/2013) This story offers an uplifting profile of a partici [...]
Reducing Poverty–Together
By Quinn Schipper Stillwater C.A.R.E.S. (Community And Resource Empowerment Solutions) is an organization that puts relationships first. We [...]
Reducing Recidivism–Detention Center Reentry Program Benefiting the Community
Elain Ellerbe Reentry Benefiting Families (RBF) is presently working with a rural detention center in Louisiana to develop, from the ground [...]
Crookston Times: Thursday’s Ruby Payne Presentation
Thursday's Ruby Payne Presentation Was an Eye Opener (8/30/2013) Ruby's presentation to public health, social service, Head Start, and corre [...]
Attending the Bridges National Conference: Addressing the Challenges of Poverty
Attending the Addressing the Challenges of Poverty conference the past two years really helped to get our anti-poverty initiative off the gr [...]
Teaching At-Risk Students–Interview with Ruby Payne
With the permission of William D Parker, we've re-printed his transcript of an interview he conducted with Ruby recently. The introduction [...]
Reducing Poverty–Love Put into Action at the Conference
By Kimberly J. Ruiz I first attended the Addressing the Challenges of Poverty conference in October 2009; what a difference it has made in m [...]
Fox 31: Teachers Get Poverty Workshop
Teachers Get Poverty Workshop (08/15/2013) This video features teachers participating in a Bridges Out of Poverty workshop to better underst [...]
WALB News 10: Lee County Addresses Poverty in Schools
Lee County Addresses Poverty in Schools (08/07/2013) The Lee County School System in Georgia seeks to meet the needs of all groups, particul [...]
Pocono Record: Pocono Alliance Gets Creative
Pocono Alliance Gets Creative in Helping Impoverished Families (08/02/2013) Pocono Alliance uses "Miles of Quarters," a limited-seating art [...]
Planning to Plan–Improving Educational Impact
By Bethanie Tucker When I was in a previous teaching position, my colleagues and I took our seventh-graders on a field trip to Washington, D [...]
Getting Ahead–Getting Over A Dip in My Road
By Carol Steegman Hello, everyone! The past week has been a trying one for me! Trying to remember how far I have come in all the mess. I am [...]
Building a Healthy Bridges Out of Poverty Initiative
Have you ever watched an adventure movie where you see those explorers out in front of the movie’s hero getting caught up in a trap that wra [...]
mlive.com: Work in Progress
Work in Progress: Low-Wage Jobs Do Not Have to Be Dead-End Employment as Wesco Shows (07/17/2013) Wesco, a third-generation Muskegon, Michig [...]