{"id":53796,"date":"2016-03-22T14:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_light_for_electricians_how_christians_bring_hope_to_business\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T14:15:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:15:44","slug":"ct_light_for_electricians_how_christians_bring_hope_to_business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53796","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Light for Electricians: How Christians Bring Hope to Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver\u2019s business community took notice of [Karla] Nugent because of her philanthropy. As leader of sales, marketing, and human resources, she\u2019s created a culture of generosity at Weifield. The company donates to more than 30 nonprofits in the city, including organizations that support women, veterans, at-risk youth, and the urban poor. Employees join in the generosity as well, taking bike rides to raise money for MS and building houses for Habitat for Humanity on company time.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Nugent won the Denver Business Journal\u2019s Corporate Citizen of the Year Award as well as the award for Outstanding Woman in Business for architects, engineers, and construction.<\/p>\n<p>But light began to flood into Weifield when, several years ago, Nugent decided to bring the community\u2019s needs into the company. After seeing growing income inequality in Denver, she created the Weifield Group apprenticeship program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2016\/march-web-only\/light-for-electricians-christians-bring-hope-to-business.html?share=vJireLDW2MbKfNA7S44q3jqMzOh%2fo51f\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver\u2019s business community took notice of [Karla] Nugent because of her philanthropy. As leader of sales, marketing, and human resources, she\u2019s created a culture of generosity at Weifield. The company donates to more than 30 nonprofits in the city, including<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53796\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,175,582,589,149,168,184,108,441,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}