FAQ
What is the purpose of Veritas Chronicles?
The world is a Pandora's Box. Discovering, reporting, and highlighting projects, people, and stories that make a real and positive difference to many is Veritas Chronicles' contribution to celebratory optimism in this challenged world.
Why does Veritas Chronicles use Global Platforms as the basis of its storytelling?
Veritas Chronicles is interested in hope for humanity. Therefore, the stories, people, and projects that foster that hope and confidence are the subjects of our research and reporting.
Veritas Chronicles is apolitical and non-denominational, with a faith-driven perspective. In that light, the Vatican’s Humanity 2.0 Project, the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals are just two examples of where we find broad and diversified platforms from which to explore good people striving to do good, at scale.
The policy and editorial team of Veritas Chronicles have determined to particularly focus on scalable entrepreneurship as a vital social impact cause. Hence, the team will be watching and reporting on the progress of Generation Free Enterprise and ImpactU and other enterprises designed to train and nurture successful entrepreneurs.
Generation Free Enterprise is built to show young people ways to exit multigenerational poverty, dependency, addictions, etc. GFE posits that many less privileged youth grow up with a limited perspective of their lifetime options, where the visible exits from the “ghetto” are confined (in their minds) to elite sports, elite entertainment … or drug peddling. GFE’s training and experience programs show youth hundreds of alternatives and train them to explore those alternatives.
ImpactU’s scalable initiative focuses on soft skills training to complement academic or technical training, proposing that soft skills are a required upgrade to any kind of formal training in order to advance personal or career goals, and an essential protection against AI-driven workforce redundancies.
Veritas Chronicles will watch these and other platforms and report with sample anecdotes and whatever can be gathered for empirical evidence of an “upward spiral.”
Why Is The Prosperity Paradox Featured So Frequently in Veritas Chronicles Content?
“The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty,” by Harvard profession Clayton M. Christensen (1952-2020) and co-authors, Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon, is what we call, a “principles platform.” In The Prosperity Paradox, the authors “reveal a paradox at the heart of most approaches to solving poverty. While noble, current solutions are not producing consistent results, and in some cases, have exacerbated the problem. At least twenty countries that have received billions of dollars’ worth of aid are poorer now,” they report. Applying rigorous and theory-driven analysis these authors suggest a better way. “The right kind of innovation not only builds companies—but also builds countries. The Prosperity Paradox identifies the limits of common economic development models, which tend to be top-down efforts, and offers a new framework for economic growth based on entrepreneurship and market-creating innovation.”
Can You Contribute? Yes!
There are many global, regional, and national platforms that are designed to create change and “goodness” on a large scale. The Veritas Chronicles story teams are always in search mode for such platforms or projects, and — without regard to political or religious persuasions — highlighting the people who are driving them. We’d like to hear from you, if you think there’s a project or a platform that deserves more attention.