Businesses Doing Good Glenn Barth

Our guest on the February 21 Conference Call is Mic Klaith, Relationship Manager at Alerus Bank. The topic is "The Power of Community Banking."
We're pleased to have Mic Klaith, Relationship Manager at Alerus Bank in Eden Prairie.

Our guest on the January 17 Conference Call is Scott Barr of SouthWest Exteriors in San Antonio. The topic is "Ownership and Stewardship.”

“A Worldview Filled with Hope: a Conversation between Glenn Barth and Scott Myers.” This is a Feature Presentation in this series in which the Chairman of GoodCities, Scott Myers, and Glenn Barth, the President, discuss the reason we do the Businesses Doing Good Conference calls.

Our guest on the October 18th Conference Call is Wendy Clark. The topic is "Revitalizing Durham."

Our guest on the September 20th Conference Call is Dr. Amy Sherman. The topic is "Business as an Agent of Community Benefit."


We're pleased to have Dr. Amy Sherman with us as our guest for this edition of Businesses Doing Good. In this conference call, Amy will tell stories of businesses that are improving the quality of life for people where they serve. She will also share a framework for the movement that we are seeing among business leaders of doing good in their communities.


Amy Sherman, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow with the Sagamore Institute. She directs the Institute’s Center on Faith in Communities (CFIC). CFIC provides training, technical assistance, and consulting to faith-based and community based social service providers and to religious congregations desiring to invest more effectively in their neighborhoods. The author of six books and over 80 articles and essays, Sherman is founder and former executive director of Charlottesville Abundant life Ministries, a holistic, cross-cultural, whole-family, church-based outreach in an urban neighborhood of approximately 380 lower-income, single-parent families. Sherman’s most recent book, Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good, won recent honors as Christianity Today’s choice as Book of the Year in the Christian Living category.


Sherman earned her BA in Political Science at Messiah College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in international economic development from the University of Virginia. She volunteers as a Senior Fellow with the International Justice Mission and is a longtime member of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, VA.

Our guest on the August 16th Conference Call is Louis King. The topic is "Jobs that Transform Lives"


Some nonprofits today are serving a critical role as they serve as conduits for people from poor communities to enter the workforce. Summit Academy OIC is just that kind of place.


Louis J. King II is a visionary leader who serves as President and CEO of Summit Academy OIC, a $7.5 million accredited educational and vocational training institute. As a nonprofit organization, Summit Academy empowers poor Twin Cities’ residents to become self-reliant and employed members of their community.


King has over 20 years’ experience in education, youth development and workforce development. His current work focuses on stabilizing families by ensuring that parents earn the wages needed to adequately support their children. He recently launched the 1,000 GED Campaign, which is aimed at the 72,000 adults in Hennepin County (and beyond) who do not have the credentials needed to enter the workforce and access well-paying jobs. Summit Academy’s unique GED Training Program seamlessly integrates into their no-cost Construction and Healthcare Training Programs, giving graduates the proper skills to start a new career. King firmly believes that “the best social service program in the world is a job”.


King is the founder and co-chair of the HIRE Minnesota coalition, which works to create jobs that reduce racial disparities and lift individuals out of poverty.


In 1996, Louis was elected to the Minneapolis School Board, and completed his four-year term. He is currently a board member with the following organizations: Minneapolis Club, St. Thomas Academy, Robins Kaplan Miller Ciresi Foundation, Allina Health System and OIC of America.He has also served on the Abbott Northwest Hospital Board and the Fairview Healthcare Foundation Board.


He has held leadership positions in several community organizations such as the Bryant Neighborhood Organization and the Glenwood-Lyndale Community Center, where he served as President of their respective Boards.


King is a graduate of Morehouse College with a B.A. in Political Science. Prior to joining Two or More in 1993, he served in the U.S. Army for 10 years, achieving the rank of Major.