Tim's Library

Seeing poverty first-hand changes one’s point of view. More...

I've come to believe that while there are very complex challenges in my life, complex solutions don't work. And if you've ever golfed, you know it's a complex game. The great ideas (and lives) I've studied apply simple, if difficult to execute, principles to complex issues. More...

I believe that Rich Clark, and his fellow Cristo Rey partners are the epitome of searchers in seeking education to free those trapped in the poverty cycle of our inner cities.  And I admire them for it. More...

By Muhammad Yunis
from The Christian Science Monitor Feb 2008 edition
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0215/p09s01-coop.html

Editor's Note: This article is shared for those who haven't had a chance to read Yunis' latest book. Thanks to Christian Science Monitor for carrying this article which is kind of a condensed version of what Grameen Bank founder and Nobel Prize winner Yunis means by the concept he pursues now called "social business." More...

February Song: Kodachrome
Artist: Paul Simon More...

By Jessica Jackley Flannery

Editor's Note: Jessica Jackley Flannery cofounded Kiva, the first peer-to-peer microlending Web site, and believes that microfinance, relationships, and stories are powerful tools for change. The reason I LOVE this article, and recommend its reading, is that she not only tells us her story, she tells us "how to" become social entrepreneurs by learning, listening, asking, jumping and dreaming. More...

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
by William Easterly More...

I've never listened to country music but many of their titles make me laugh. Here are a few song titles, two of which were recorded by women artists that came across the internet the other day: More...

"Being Safe Places for Others" by Henri J. M. Nouwen More...