At Lincoln Village Ministry, they know that clean, affordable housing itself is only a small part of what it takes to change a person’s life: it must be accompanied by a firm foundation of healthy relationships and hard work, all built on Christ as the cornerstone, to reach maximum effectiveness. TCI’s Savannah Aleckson explains more in her article below.

The obsession with slashing overhead has resulted in fewer resources for charitable efforts. There is an alternative—a measurement that can drive funders to support your cause without forcing you to chase a metric that rates you higher when your organization is starving.

More and more nonprofit leaders are looking at ways to eventually become “completely self-sustaining.” Aiming to build enough of an endowment or revenue generation programs that they no longer need to rely on donors. But there's a lot to like about the dynamic, so why work to eliminate it? TCI's Travis Hurley offers three reasons for reliance on a donor base.

For two decades, poverty fighters have turned to the framework within Bridges Out of Poverty. Bridges must be examined, though, to see if they safely deliver individuals to the intended destination. TCI’s Jeff Lofting reports on the structural soundness of this popular book.

“You don’t know what you don’t know.” TCI’s Amanda Fisher reflects on her years of experience serving people in poverty and how this perennial saying describes her recent effective charity awakening.