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Jessica Schroeder
Disrupting An Industry That Needs to Be Disrupted

This post highlights the work of Core Ventures, a presenting sponsor at a past February’s “Business for the Common Good” event. Thank you to Core Ventures for their generous support! For any of us who’ve been involved in recruiting and hiring, it’s no secret that the process can be slow, tentative, and at times painful. Maybe you’ve […]
David Rupert
Be Rich Toward God

This post highlights the work of Peak Financial Management, a presenting sponsor at a past February’s “Business for the Common Good” event. Many thanks to Peak Financial for their generous support! For some, financial planning sounds like something reserved for those with mounds of money and investment savvy. But for Nick Wolverton of Peak Financial […]
The Healing Power of Economics

The so-called “dismal science” is a powerful tool for wealth creation, but also for healing broken communities.I open my car door, sit down, and turn the key. Carefully balancing my coffee, I put my foot on the brake, shift into reverse, and gently press the gas pedal as I pull out of my driveway on […]
Jeff Haanen
The Missing Piece of Colorado’s Pension Crisis: Rethinking Retirement on Labor Day

Labor Day, the federal holiday dedicated to honoring the dignity of work, is a fitting time to take a fresh look at Colorado’s pension problems and offer a new perspective.This June, news outlets were in an uproar when Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) CEO Gregory Smith praised a paltry 1.5 percent return on 2015 investments as […]
Steven Garber
Good Work Matters for Everyone Everywhere

And the doors clanged shut.It is only grace that makes it be that I haven’t spent most of life in prison. The few times I have walked in, I have walked out.A long time ago now, I was asked to spend a week of my 19 year-old summer with a group of juvenile delinquents, as […]
John Marsh
The Resurrection of Place

Places, like people, can die. Cities die because of purposelessness, but they grow through love and hope. The practice of resurrecting life in a city starts in the heart of God’s people, having a hope for its future. I have experienced the call to a place—a “there that is woven into every fiber of my being.” My heart […]
David Rupert
Male and Female He Made us – Thriving Together in the Workplace

It started as a drip. And then it turned to a steady trickle and then a stream. And now it’s a river of accusations, denials, resignations and firings over sexual harassment. I don’t have to list the names. You know many of them as they span the political, moral and religious spectrum.   Time Magazine […]
Patrick Riley
How to Keep Going in 2018

On the Friday before New Year’s, I came into the office with no one here. (I tell the team to take a “holiday, holiday” where no one works between Christmas and New Years—it’s amazingly refreshing for all of us.) And coming in gave me a chance to plan out my calendar perfectly. You should see […]
Laura Bernero
How Generosity Breeds Unexpected Joy in Business

John and Ashley Marsh are entrepreneurs in the construction, real estate and hospitality industries who have been key in rebuilding the small town of Opelika, Alabama through renovation projects and their business, Marsh Collective.  In this video, they share their story about beauty from brokenness at the annual 2017 Generous Giving conference. John will join Denver Institute as a speaker […]
2017: Best of the Blog & Social Media

In 2017, we had the privilege of seeing great stories unfold in workplaces and communities across the Denver Metro area and beyond.Our partnerships and events yielded beautiful testimonies of men and women doing excellent work throughout the region. Stories of unconventional leadership, tenacity and faith revealed themselves in conversations on the Denver Institute Blog and […]
Laura Bernero
“Becoming Truly Human” | How a New Film Tries to Reach the Religiously Unaffiliated

Nathan Jacobs spent seven years as a college philosophy professor, and now combines art, culture and film as a writer, film director and storyteller. He is the writer-director of the first film on America’s religiously unaffiliated, and the first ever North American Orthodox feature film, Becoming Truly Human.He is also writer-director of the college comedy, […]
Paul Frank
5280 Fellows Alum Have an Opportunity to Carry the Learning Forward

The 5280 Fellows program was a beautiful journey for me, leading to drastic adjustments in how I view my personal calling, the local and broader culture around me, and how I view my own personal fear in light of God’s voice.  We had the wonderful opportunity to engage in thoughtful and experienced teaching in theology […]
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