EJ Dionne, President Obama, Robert Putnam and Arthur Brooks
GHR Foundation’s global development funding takes an integrated approach to tackling complex challenges. Recently, Georgetown University hosted the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty, which was co-organized by the National Association of Evangelicals and the GHR-funded Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown. At the summit, President Barack Obama spoke on cooperating and investing in the poor.
President Obama spoke on a panel with progressive and conservative thought leaders, including Robert Putnam and Arthur Brooks, moderated by Washington Post Columnist and McCourt School of Public Policy Professor E.J. Dionne Jr. Much of the conversation was focused on the urgency of meeting the needs of the poor, as well as the necessity of overcoming differences to focus on solutions.
“I think we are at a moment—in part because of what’s happened in Baltimore, in Ferguson and other places, but in part because a growing awareness of inequality in our society—where it may be possible not only to refocus attention on the issue of poverty, but also maybe to bridge some of the gaps that have existed and the ideological divides that have prevented us from making progress,” said President Obama.
Through two strategic grants, GHR provided seed funding to assist in the start-up of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. To learn more about the way GHR is partnering to achieve effective, results-based change, contact us.
President Obama spoke on a panel with progressive and conservative thought leaders, including Robert Putnam and Arthur Brooks, moderated by Washington Post Columnist and McCourt School of Public Policy Professor E.J. Dionne Jr. Much of the conversation was focused on the urgency of meeting the needs of the poor, as well as the necessity of overcoming differences to focus on solutions.
“I think we are at a moment—in part because of what’s happened in Baltimore, in Ferguson and other places, but in part because a growing awareness of inequality in our society—where it may be possible not only to refocus attention on the issue of poverty, but also maybe to bridge some of the gaps that have existed and the ideological divides that have prevented us from making progress,” said President Obama.
Through two strategic grants, GHR provided seed funding to assist in the start-up of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. To learn more about the way GHR is partnering to achieve effective, results-based change, contact us.
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