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From Michigan to Chattanooga

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Big Buff’s 92 BBQ in Chattanooga is now open for business.

On the road now, driving from Grand Rapids to Chattanooga in a single day. I’m traveling with two colleagues from Partners Worldwide. We’re headed down for a U.S. national gathering co-hosted by one of our affiliates, LAUNCH. We will be together with 70 people from around the country and local to Chattanooga. The purpose is to get a close look at an effective model for creating jobs in communities of high unemployment. Most of the people in attendance are interested doing something in their own city about job creation through business growth and entrepreneurship.

One of the featured businesses in Chattanooga is Big Buff’s 92 BBQ. The owner, Ervin Juan Bailey aka Big Buff, is featured today at Nooga.com, an online portal serving the entire city. The grand opening for Big Buff’s 92 BBQ is tomorrow and will be part of the Partners Worldwide event.

Our schedule is below and it’s going to be a powerful. Wish everyone could be here:

Thursday, June 6

11-12:30 @ Hope for the Inner City & Big Buff’s 92 BBQ Grand Opening

12:45 – 1:30pm @ All Dogs Funnel Cakes & More (mobile food truck: Thursday’s location is downtown Chattanooga)

2-3 @ Bethlehem Center for an Entrepreneurs Panel

6-8 pm @ Stratton Hall for the Graduation of the Spring 2013 classes from LAUNCH Business Training

Friday, June 7

Morning Session

Partners Worldwide overview and U.S. region opportunities

LAUNCH Walk-Thru: The start, current activities, and future vision of a Partners Worldwide affiliate that is creating jobs in a community with high unemployment. To date LAUNCH has provided business training for more than 150 individuals, and from this training group 23 new businesses have started that represent more than 50 jobs. Hal Bowling, executive director of LAUNCH, will lead the presentation.

Afternoon Session

Forum on Building an Ecosystem that Eradicates Poverty.

  • Panelists include:
  • Robby Holt of Mountain Fellowship on Understanding The Faith-Work Divide
  • Dr. Brian Fikkert, co-author of When Helping Hurts, on Two Chattanoogas
  • Sheldon Grizzle of The Company Lab on connecting with existing entrepreneurship ecosystems
  • Lane Ford of North Shore Fellowship on Integrating Faith and Work
  • Paul Green of Hope for the Inner City on Overcoming Paternalism

We close with a commissioning – Commissioning of attendees as Marketplace Ministers.

Attendees are coming from Phoenix, Kansas City, South Texas, Memphis, Charlotte, Indiana, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi Gulf, Atlanta, Louisville, Chattanooga and Michigan. I’m grateful to God for the group that is assembling.

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Integrate faith and work @ Marketplace Revolution U.S.

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Partners Worldwide U.S.:

Your business can be your ministry, and your work can be worship – that’s what we believe at Partners Worldwide! We are a network of people called to business and passionate about ending poverty.

Join us in Chattanooga, Tennessee, this June 6-7 for the 2013 Marketplace Revolution U.S. National Conference. Primary audience: Business and professional people concerned about job creation anywhere in the 50 United States. Secondary audience: People called to business and transformation in their workplace or across the globe.

You will connect with peers, engage a replicable model for job creation in communities of high unemployment – that you can take back to your own city – and learn about partnerships that are transformational for all involved. Register today!

via Marketplace Revolution U.S. | Marketplace Revolution.

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Tech entrepreneur converts retired city buses into showers for the homeless

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Christina Farr:

San Francisco is teeming with tech entrepreneurs who want to save the world but who’ll pass by the homeless person on the street without a second glance.

Doniece Sandoval, a Bay Area tech entrepreneur, is not one of them. Her latest trick? Turning retired city buses into mobile showers for the homeless. The initiative, known as Lava Mae, is a response to a desperate need in the city. According to the most recent count, more than 6,500 homeless people sleep on the street or in shelters in San Francisco, and there are only eight shower facilities specifically available to the homeless, and most of these have just one or two stalls and aren’t open every day.

Doniece Sandoval is working part-time to convert MUNI buses into shower facilities

It all started two years ago when Sandoval hopped in a cab after a meeting in the south of market (SoMa) district of San Francisco, which is primarily inhabited by startups and the homeless.

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“My driver turned around and said, ‘welcome to the land of broken dreams.’” Sandoval  snapped out of her reverie and started to really look at the people around her.

“The woman I passed was crying and saying that she would never be clean,” Sandoval recalled, her voice cracking. While this sentiment might have multiple layers of meaning, she took it as a sign that she should focus on the issue of hygiene, one of the most pressing needs in the homeless community.

After mulling it over and doing some research, Sandoval hit on the idea of a mobile unit that could be outfitted with shower facilities. Access to water and sanitation is a basic human right, so as a short-term solution, why not put a shower on wheels?

Read the whole thing… via Tech entrepreneur is converting retired city buses into showers for the San Francisco homeless | MedCity News.

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