John Terrill

John Terrill is the director of SPU’s Center for Integrity in Business. Prior to SPU, he spent time in banking, organization development consulting, and 10 years with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as the director for M.B.A. Ministry, as well as Professional Schools Ministries. Terrill has led multiple teams to the Central African Republic to help launch a microfinance program and co-directed the PNW Microfinance Conference at SPU in 2009, as well as the 1,200-person Open for Business (business-as-mission) Conference at the Urbana 2006 Missions Convention. Terrill is a regular contributor to Comment magazine and other print and web-based journals on matters related to business, ethics, and Christian theology.

Social Sector

Capitalizing with the Poor

Is it wrong to pursue a profit while helping the poor and oppressed? This question is frequently aired and dissected in intricate moralizing, but why not ask the companies pursuing multiple bottom lines how their profit motivation is working? Kenman Wong, John Terrill, and Jeff Keenan introduce three companies pursuing both profit and the welfare of the poor.

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