In Celebration of 5 Women: Missy Angalla
All week long, in honor of #InternationalWomensDay, we are lifting up five women we admire. We will send one quick email each day...
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Christen Kinard
- Mar 10, 2021
- 2 min
In Celebration of 5 Women: Dalia Juárez
All week long, in honor of #InternationalWomensDay, we are lifting up five women we admire. We will send one quick email each day...
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Christen Kinard
- Mar 9, 2021
- 1 min
In Celebration of 5 Women: Stacy Hollingsworth
All week long, in honor of #InternationalWomensDay, we are lifting up five women we admire. We will send one quick email each day...
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Christen Kinard
- Mar 8, 2021
- 2 min
In Celebration of 5 Women: Lupe Franco
All week long, in honor of #InternationalWomensDay, we are lifting up five women we admire. We will publish one quick blog post each day...
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Christen Kinard
- Feb 15, 2021
- 1 min
The Story Behind Kin and Care
I don't know about you but I struggle to find the time to innovate. It's not that I don't have new ideas and a vision for the future....
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Christen Kinard
- Jan 18, 2021
- 2 min
serving and sewing: meet joanne mwosana
I am a millennial so I probably shouldn't admit to this but I am amazed. I am amazed that on a random weekday morning I can spend twenty...
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Christen Kinard
- Jan 12, 2021
- 2 min
The Off Ramp's New Year Resolutions
The Lupton Center is all about transformation. They help organizations like ours understand asset-based reform and empower them to bring...
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Christen Kinard
- Dec 16, 2020
- 2 min
it's about more than baskets. it's about healing and transformation.
Seven months ago, a group of eight women in Kampala, Uganda gathered for their first lesson in basket weaving. Two are Ugandan. Five are...
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Nell Green
- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
125 people arrive every day
Thousands of asylum seekers reach the US-Mexico border each year. Often they get stuck there, in transition, without resources or...
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Nell Green
- Oct 18, 2020
- 3 min
you may want to sit down for this
Until today, we had never before sent the same email to subscribers of The Off Ramp and of Threads by Nomad. You may recall, however,...
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Butch Green
- Oct 14, 2020
- 2 min
arrival during a pandemic
How have you been during this pandemic? Every one of us has been affected in some way. Consider for a moment how it might affect refugees...
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Nell Green
- Oct 11, 2020
- 2 min
Basket-making in Uganda: How Your Gifts Are Changing Deborah's Life
by Missy Ward Angalla Amani Sasa seeks to minister with and among refugees through offering safety, wholeness and empowerment so that...
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Nell Green
- Sep 22, 2020
- 1 min
a letter to you from dalia
Dear brothers, sisters, friends: We give thanks to the creative Force, God mother and father, for the opportunity to continue joining our...
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Nell Green
- Sep 21, 2020
- 2 min
a few food pics for your monday morning (and an important announcement)
Why in the world would we be posting a bunch of food pics first thing on a Monday morning? Because these are some of the meals I was...
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Nell Green
- Sep 14, 2020
- 2 min
one week, two events: how will you connect with us?
These are busy days at The Off Ramp! We've got so much going on we can barely keep it all straight! So, assuming you're not paying as...
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Nell Green
- Sep 14, 2020
- 2 min
one year later: someone was listening
by Christen One year ago, I traveled to Chiapas, Mexico. My job was to explore, on behalf of The Off Ramp, the possibility of a new...
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Nell Green
- Aug 29, 2020
- 1 min
We must learn more so we can do more.
Human trafficking is a 9.5 billion-dollar industry. That is more than Nike, Starbucks, and Google combined. And the pandemic has only...
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Nell Green
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
When crisis follows crisis...
An often overlooked consequence of the pandemic is the plight of refugees across the globe. Many more of them are in need of emergency...
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Nell Green
- Jul 29, 2020
- 2 min
What's in your "need to learn more about" box?
If you are like me, you are ZOOMED OUT! These days of pandemic have meant that we are constantly online trying to work and/or connect...
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Nell Green
- Jul 15, 2020
- 3 min
From Michoacán to Mexicali and a hopeful return to Chiapas
Do you remember Vero, the talented young weaver? Last summer, we met her and some of her friends in Chiapas, Mexico and offered her a...
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