Leadership

Champion
Buzz Ritchie

Team Chairs
Education: Ted Kirchharr
Environment: Dr. Enid Sisskin
Health: Dr. Debra Vinci
Poverty: Tim Evans

We Can!

BornLearning.org

Sponsors

Energy Services PensacolaBaptist Health Care

Partners

Currently:

212 individuals

70 Organizations

7 Sponsors

Poll

What do you believe should be the highest priority in Escambia County?

Learn More

Statistics on poverty in our community
http://quickfacts.census.gov
http://datacenter.kidscount.org 

What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty
Click to download Book Study Outline with Supplemental Materials.

Recommended Websites

www.ahaprocess.com

Learn the importance of breaking economic barriers and forming relationships in order to eliminate poverty.

www.gettingaheadnetwork.com

Your opinions and solutions are the most important tool to ending poverty. Learn how one idea can impact a whole community.

www.movethemountain.org

Learn about Circles, a national campaign to end poverty and one of the fondations of our Bridges to Circles program.

 

Recommended Reading

Bridges Out of Poverty, by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D., Philip DeVol and Terie Dreussi Smith

Bridges to Sustainable Communities: A system wide, cradle to grave, approach to ending poverty in America, by Philip E. DeVol

Until It’s Gone: Ending Poverty In Our Nation, In Our Lifetime, by Scott C. Miller

What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty, by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. and Bill Ehlig

Why Don't They Just Get a Job?, by Liane Phillips and Echo Montgomery Garrett

Hear Our Cry Boys in Crisis, by Paul D. Slocumb.

Pathways, by Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. Sign up for free hard copy delivery of quarterly magazine or PDF notification at http://stanford.edu/group/scspi-dev/index.html

Same Kind Of Different As Me, by Ron Hall, Denver Moore and Lynn Vincent