Service

“Heedlessness” by Alasdair MacIntyre

Keynote address by Alasdair MacIntyre, Permanent Senior Distinguished Research Fellow, de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, delivered at the 2014 Notre Dame Fall Conference.

Fr. Ted Said…Serving Others

Notre Dame has a long and strong tradition of service and being a force for good. Fr. Hesburgh’s commitment to serving others was the seed that grew into impactful service...

Notre Dame Fights Poverty

Food and Thought

A look at ideas that are addressing major food-related problems: A potential breakthrough on peanut allergies. Learn more about how Basar Bilgicer, associate professor of...

Fueling Success

More than 13 million children live in hunger in the U.S., according to government estimates, with many relying on federal nutrition programs, including school-based breakfast,...

Just Lending a Hand

Day 1 When I walked into the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, people were everywhere — kids playing and running around, mothers nursing babies, teenagers chatting...

Emergency Financial Assistance Reduces Homeless Shelter Entry and Violent Crime

A new study conducted by researchers at the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame shows that emergency financial assistance for...

U.S. Poverty Numbers Continue to Decline, Researchers Find

A more accurate measure of the poverty rate, based on how much people consume, highlights the dramatic decline in poverty over the past four decades, a fact that is missed by the...

The Great American Tug of War

The great tension in American life today may not be Republican versus Democrat, nor rural versus urban, nor rich versus poor, nor liberal versus conservative, nor management...

Helping the Most Vulnerable

A report from the White House Council of Economic Advisors declared the war on poverty largely over. A Notre Dame researcher, who helped produce much of the data behind the...

Social Enterprise for Four Changes

This talk is given by Matt Manos, Founder & Managing Director of verynice, a design strategy consultancy that gives half of its work away for free to nonprofit organizations....

Fighting for Our Veterans

At a young age, it was ingrained into Brady Quinn ’07 that it was important to respect and support the military. His father was a marine in Vietnam. His grandfathers had both...