What is our role in working with those in need? Are we responsible for or to them? Understanding the difference between those two prepositions is vital in preventing dependency and nurturing individuals’ capacity. Guest contributor Doug Gamble explains.

How do we shift the balance of our programs from relief towards development? How can we meet vital and basic needs repetitively without also being complicit in the dependency trap? How can we motivate the people we help to do more to help themselves? How can we level up? Look up, expect up, and size up.

Is expanding food stamps benefits to include restaurants a kindness or, as FDR put it, "a subtle destroyer of the human spirit"? TCI's James Whitford explains how one state's recent legislation doing just that is a disservice to those in need.

People are the passion, coffee is the means. It’s about life change one person at a time, and Equip Coffee intends to do it with the greatest excellence. TCI’s Amanda Fisher provides the details on this Springfield, MO, social enterprise.

How can you set up your mentoring program to affirm the unique gifts of each mentee, encourage mutuality, and set the mentee up for self-sufficiency after the program ends? Check out these three ideas from our upcoming Mentoring Model Action Plan.