Both political parties have finally agreed that revenues need to be raised, and the budget cannot be balanced by cuts alone. However, there are two sticking points: The Democrats want to see an even balance between increased revenue and deductions in spending, while the Republicans want to see less increases in revenue and greater cuts in spending. On the revenue front alone, Republicans are also still insisting that tax rates on the wealthy need not increase. So, the only way for revenue to increase- and for the rates to stay the same- is to limit the amount of deductions one can claim. The three major categories of deductions are: mortgage payments and interest, state & local deductions, and charitable contributions. Deductions for charitable contributions are the focal point of this debate. Download Now
Our mission is to build leaders and challenge communities to embrace service as a means to improve the world around them.
Resources
The resources on this page are a sample of available tools and information to guide servant leaders toward community transformation. Suggestions to include in this list are welcome.
In this literature review, Christa Maciver seeks to review the current field of literature surrounding disaster diplomacy and to assess its efficacy in promoting peace and reducing conflict.
Disaster Diplomacy. Download Now
In this literature review, Angela Baldasare, Ph.D., presents an introduction to the factors associated with GBV, its prevalence, consequences, and implications for program, policy, and practice, with a specific focus on Africa. Click Here to Download.
Dr. Kent Keith is the current CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. This book provides a broad background and support for servant leadership.
Tony Barron is the president of the Servant Leadership Institute, a division of Datron World Communications, the book includes a story on how one CEO transitioned his company to servant leadership.
Larry C. Spears compiles from leading educators and authors on servant leadership principles. Included among these is the editor, Larry Spears, who was CEO of the Greenleaf Center for nearly 20 years and now runs the Spears Center for Servant Leadership.
Robert Greenleaf offers insights to this topic through a collection of eight essays. These essays offer insight int othe nature and practive of servant leadership and the continual refinement of this servant-as-leader concept. Several of the essays focus on the related issues of spirit, commitment fo bision, and wholeness.
In his work The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey Sachs delineates a number of key variables to assure or sustain economic growth throughout the globe. These variables require a shift in attitude and approach from domination to relationship or, more specifically, an attitude or approach that equates to service. Servant Forge will examine these variables and seek to infuse a culture of service into the organizations and communities that desire economic and social justice. The variables for economic, social, and human development are as follows:
- Urbanization
- Understanding the advantages of high-density urban life
- Social mobility and the power of market-based economies
- Shift in gender roles
- Family structure
- Division of labor
Over one billion individuals are living on a subsistence income of less than a $1 a day. These forces are creating economic change in that population most significantly affected by extreme poverty.
