"Which magazine, founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in 1991, has been promoted with the slogan ""Helping the homeless help themselves""?"
The Big Issue The Big Issue The Big Issue is a street newspaper founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991 and published in four continents. "The Big Issue" is one of the UK's leading social businesses and exists to offer homeless people, or individuals at risk of homelessness, the opportunity to earn a legitimate income, thereby helping them to reintegrate into mainstream society. It is the world's most widely circulated street newspaper. Inspired by "Street News", a newspaper sold by homeless people in New York, "The Big Issue" was founded in 1991 by John Bird and Gordon Roddick as a
God helps those who help themselves "God helps those who help themselves", apparently the first exact rendering of the phrase. Benjamin Franklin later used it in his "Poor Richard's Almanack" (1736) and has been widely quoted. It has a different meaning in that it implies that helping oneself is a prerequisite for expecting the help of God. The phrase is often quoted to emphasize the importance of taking initiative. There is also a relationship to the Parable of the Faithful Servant, and the Parable of the Ten Virgins, which has a similar eschatological theme: be prepared for the day of reckoning. However, the argument has been