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byFaith on transforming business through the the Redeemer Entrepreneurship Initiative

Posted by cicw

from byFaithonline:

An artist struggling to articulate her business goals. A team of doctors trying to make their inner-city medical clinic sustainable. A service-oriented theater company seeking investors.

These were all organizations that have been assisted by the Redeemer Entrepreneurship Initiative, an offshoot of Redeemer Presbyterian Church’s Center for Faith and Work in New York City.

The Entrepreneurship Initiative (EI) was created in 2005 to help Redeemer members and others transform culture through business. “It’s for the common good that we create products and services that contribute to culture,” said Katherine Leary, executive director of the Redeemer Center for Faith and Work, and a former high-tech management executive in California. “We’re trying to exemplify Christian values by every aspect of business—how we construct a company, how we run meetings, how we treat employees, how we give opportunity to creativity and innovation.”

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