A Pathway to Success for America’s Youth: A Synopsis of Agency
Ian Rowe’s Agency champions a national game plan to help young people find the path to a flourishing life by overcoming the false narratives of victimhood and victim-blaming.
Entries by Nathan Mayo
How the War on Poverty Will End: The Past and Future of Poverty Alleviation in America
The War on Poverty has not gone well–which begs the questions, ‘What went wrong?’ and ‘What lessons can we learn?’ TC’s Nathan Mayo offers his thoughts on how the government’s failure creates a singular window of opportunity for civil society.
A Silent Shift in American Poverty: A Summary of Alienated America
Civil society has retreated for the past half century, but Tim Carney posits that it isn’t dead; it has just gone into hiding. This synopsis of his book Alienated America reveals how the church can play a crucial role in reviving it.
Don’t Be So Language Sensitive
Poverty fighters are often picky about their word choice. Sometimes this is sensible; other times, it causes senseless division among organizations that should be working together. Nathan Mayo unpacks how we can prioritize intent over wording.
Christian Enterprise Solutions to Poverty: Trail Notes on the Field Guide
The Christian Enterprise Solutions to Poverty Field Guide explores and maps the field’s cutting-edge approaches to the perennial issue of poverty. The guide is packed with case studies, history, trends, barriers, and insights. TCI’s Network Director, Nathan Mayo rolls up the key takeaways.
Strategic Thinking 101: Why Vision and Goals Aren’t Enough
A strategy is not a vision, a mission, or a set of goals. It is a plan that provides a clear diagnosis of a problem, a guiding policy to address it, and a coherent set of mutually supportive actions.
A Multilayered Problem: Homelessness Is a Crisis That More Houses Won’t Fix
Simply providing a house doesn’t solve homelessness-no, it’s not that easy. It requires address the root causes. TCI’s Nathan Mayo responds to the premise of the book ‘Homelessness is a housing problem in this article, originally published in WORLD Magazine.
How Brown M&M’s Can Transform Your Charity
What do pioneering rock band Van Halen and a popular candy have to do with effective charity? If we learn a lesson from that connection, we can find clients who are ready to invest in their own success. TCI’s Nathan Mayo explains in his recent article.
Please Stop Donating to the Worst Charity in America: There Are Better Ways to Help
Believe it or not, America’s most dysfunctional, misguided charity has a local chapter in almost every community across the country—often just around the corner from where you work, shop, or live. But don’t be fooled: there are better ways to give.
What’s the Antidote to the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle?
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.
5 Best Practices for Testing to Ensure Your Classes Work
We owe it to our clients to ensure that they are learning from our classes and training opportunities. If you’re not using a curriculum with pre-made testing, you’ll have to design the test yourself. Here are five checks to ensure your test works.
Let’s Stop Kidding Ourselves About SNAP
Our attempt to provide wholesome food to needy families through SNAP does not work as we intend. Not only does it completely sidestep root causes of poverty but, in many cases, its image of delivering vital sustenance to people in need is mere illusion.
People in Poverty Need Financial Knowledge—Here’s Why Most Financial Classes Are Failing Them
Financial knowledge is critical to escaping poverty, but research shows that most financial classes fail to change behavior. Here’s why that is, and what you can do about it.
Why the Poor Die So Much Sooner Than Wealthier People (and What We All Can Do to Help)
The top quarter of American income earners can expect to live a decade longer than the bottom quarter. This health disparity seems downright cruel. Not only do those in poverty have to pay more for things like credit and insurance, they also pay more years to the grim reaper.
Burrito Economics: Why Chipotle’s Wage Hikes Are Not Good News
In a recent column by Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, argues that the labor shortage is unrelated to boosted unemployment benefits and that the price hikes do not necessarily follow from the wage hikes and that the real winners of these economic conditions are low-wage workers. TCI’s Nathan Mayo unwraps Reich’s analysis to find that there is not much meat in his argument.
