{"id":8445,"date":"2025-06-19T14:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T20:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/?p=8445"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:10:18","slug":"august-meeting-crosspurpose-modeling-a-different-way-of-walking-out-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/august-meeting-crosspurpose-modeling-a-different-way-of-walking-out-of-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"August Meeting: CrossPurpose \u2013 Modeling a Different Way of Walking Out of Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"event-featured-image\" src=\"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/August2025Speaker.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"yiv8542856093MsoNormal\">Jason Janz co-founded CrossPurpose in 2008, influenced greatly by spending his childhood and adolescence in poverty.\u00a0 His passion for social entrepreneurship and serving the poor is satisfied through his role as CEO, where he builds our staff team, sets the organizational culture and raises funds.\u00a0 When he is not working, Jason enjoys bike riding and hanging out with his family.<\/p>\n<p>CrossPurpose means \u201ca contrary aim.\u201d\u00a0 We wanted to model a different way, a more dignified and holistic way, of walking with our neighbors all the way out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>We approached this challenge holistically because while poverty shows its effects financially, the solution is often relational and spiritual.\u00a0 This informed what is now the mission of CrossPurpose: \u201cto abolish economic, relational, and spiritual poverty through career and community development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To this end, we doubled down on building social capital with our families and lived by the maxim, \u201cThere is no significant change without a significant relationship.\u201d\u00a0 For the last ten years, our weekly family dinners have been the place where lifelong friendships have been formed between our families, volunteers, donors, and staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Janz co-founded CrossPurpose in 2008, influenced greatly by spending his childhood and adolescence in poverty.\u00a0 His passion for social entrepreneurship and serving the poor is satisfied through his role as CEO, where he builds our staff team, sets the organizational culture and raises funds.\u00a0 When he is not working, Jason enjoys bike riding and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 01:28:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9501,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions\/9501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}