{"id":8445,"date":"2025-06-19T14:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T20:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/?p=8445"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T20:06:09","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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; When he is not working, Jason enjoys bike riding and hanging out with his family.<\/p>\n<p>CrossPurpose means \u201ca contrary aim.\u201d&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; When he is not working, Jason enjoys bike riding and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 22:56:13","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions\/8446"}],"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}]}}