Dealing with Business Setbacks: Greenwood Hospitality Group

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary How have business leaders navigated unanticipated setbacks due to COVID-19? And how do Christians in business deal with the uncertainty of a pandemic? In this episode, Dustin Moody and Joanna Meyer talk with Aik Hong […]

Meagan McCoy Jones on Drywall & Leading Teams Well

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary In this episode, Joanna Meyer talks business with Meagan McCoy Jones, the president & COO of McCoy Building Supply. This conversation is full of insight into what it takes to create good work and how […]

Getting to the Heart of Outdoor Retailing and Recreation: Videos from “God & the Great Outdoors”

Outdoor recreation is close to the hearts of many Coloradoans, but how does it shape our souls? How do Christians in outdoor retailing integrate their faith and work in a pluralistic industry?In July, Denver Institute for Faith & Work hosted a conversation that explored the social, economic, and spiritual impact of outdoor retailing and recreation. […]

Saving Lives with a Bar of Soap

This post highlights the work of Osana, a presenting sponsor at July, 2018’s “God & the Great Outdoors” event. Osana is an all-natural mosquito repellent soap that helps to prevent mosquito-borne illnesses and sanitation related sicknesses in the developing world. Many thanks to Osana for their generous support!Mosquitos suck…literally. Who hasn’t had a picnic ruined by these pesky […]

Laura Bernero, Drew Yancey
Entrepreneurism: Navigating a Brutal Sport

Drew Yancey is the President and CEO of Yancey’s Food Service in Loveland, Colorado and a PhD student at the University of Birmingham.We spoke recently about his work, and his passion for the development of great entrepreneurs in our region.Tell us about your current work life. What is your work, and why is it important […]

Banks Benitez
Connecting the Invisible Spirit of God with the Work of Our Hands

I’m an entrepreneur and I help lead a secular organization based in Five Points here in Denver called Uncharted. We help entrepreneurs scale for-profit businesses that are addressing major social and environmental issues.Uncharted matches entrepreneurs with mentors and leads workshops on topics like sales, marketing, and financial modeling. We invest in the companies and do everything […]

Drew Yancey
The Entrepreneur’s Most Important Parable

Lean. Agile. Scale. Strategic speed. Continuous iteration. Fail fast, learn fast, grow fast… And on and on and on. These are just some of the buzzwords that dominate entrepreneurial culture, and they are an indication of just how blistering the pace of work is for many organizations. So I want to pose a question: Does […]

Drew Yancey
Entrepreneurship in the Kingdom of God

Perhaps some of you have a similar story, but the most difficult circumstance of my life thus far — spiritually, emotionally, and in fact financially — has come through the failure of a start-up in which I was an investor. I will spare you a detailed account of the saga (or rather, I will spare […]

Tex Cobb and Entrepreneurial Math

By Joe LeiningerHave you ever thought about the absurd success/failure ratios we deal with each day as entrepreneurs?  Speaking on a personal basis, I would guess that nine out of ten calls I take on a given day will generally involve a problem that needs fixing, a challenge to overcome, or just plain old bad […]

Integrity and Social Enterprise

Dr. David BefusThe concept of productive economic enterprise that supports mission has been effective since the Apostle Paul utilized tent making to support his ministry. There are great contemporary examples, such as the Roblealto Chicken farm, that has pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into ministries with children in Costa Rica for many decades.But the […]

Laura Bernero
Watch: Social Entrepreneurship Panel

Panelists Joy Anderson (Criterion Institute), Rich Hoops (Impact Charitable), Neil Bellefuille (The Paradigm Project), and Jim Reiner (Belay Industries), take questions from the audience during the recent Social Entrepreneurship Forum. Questions discussed:What do the world’s best social entrepreneurs do?How does social entrepreneurship differ domestically and internationally?What is the greatest global social need that is not […]

Brian Gray
Watch: Lessons Learned Leading the Paradigm Project

Neil Bellefuille founded The Paradigm Project, a social venture company that invests profit-seeking and philanthropic capital to create sustainable and scalable business models that deliver social, economic and environmental value within developing world communities. During the recent Social Entrepreneurship Forum, Neil explored: The differences between nonprofit and for profit funding and business models Using last-mile supply chains […]