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EoC Asia Pacific announces new Executive Council 2024-2025
SINGAPORE — Economy of Communion (EoC) Asia Pacific has announced its Executive Council during the Regional Assembly on 20-21 June 2024 with the theme “Creative Movement for an Economy of Communion.” The newly minted members of...
Living as an EoC Enterprise
by Mose Park I am an artist belonging to a cooperative which is practicing EoC principles. Around 6 years ago, I moved into my current workshop located in a small alley in Daegu City. This alley has been the workplace for many makers of handmade shoes for more than...
Banking with the “Unbankables”
My name is Teresa Ganzon and I’m currently a Director of Bangko Kabayan, Inc. countryside Private Development Bank located in the province of Batangas, in the Philippines. When my husband, Francis and I heard Chiara’s challenge in 1991 to re-orient businesses to be at...
INFLUENCE: COMMUNICATING EOC AS HOPE – Inspiring Communion in Business
by Lawrence Chong We are so glad that so many of you from different countries, professions, and faiths could join us today to launch the Economic of Communion Asia Pacific. Indeed in this Covid-19 times, it makes even more sense to do this, to offer hope that there is...
The power of gift in the economy
by Anouk Grevin An urgent need to invest in relationships As many people around the world, I was quite shocked to hear the we had been able to collect in a few days one billion euros to rebuild our Cathedral Notre Dame de Paris. This tells us two things. First that...
Imagining a role for microenterprises through the Economy of Communion approach
by Tess Ganzon The EOC was launched in 1991 by Chiara Lubich, foundress of the Focolare Movement, a global movement for unity - for its members to start new enterprises or re-orient existing ones, so that profits could be destined for the needs of the marginalized in...
Reforming Capitalism through Imagination
by Annette PELKMANS For two years now, I have been working on an action research project that studies inclusive business models in agricultural value chains and the process of their transformation. In the cases we study, we see inclusive markets, or economic...
Economy of Communion: What is it and its Future
Interview with Lawrence Chong by Croatian Catholic weekly "Glas Koncila" (The Voice of the Council) Q: How do you combine the concepts of economics and communion? Usually these are opposites if we look at today's economy dominated by profit and individualism. A: I...