Think you have no part in influencing public policy? You actually could be integral in change that improves the impact of your charitable efforts. The FGA’s Scott Centorino explains how your specific experiences can influence decisions of policy leaders.
Those in crisis simply want to ease the chaos of their situation. What they feel they need at the moment, though, is often not the actual need. A common biblical account helps understand the discernment needed to help individuals come to this realization.
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.
The working poor face a variety of challenges in attempting to escape poverty, but none is quite as mind boggling or discouraging as the disincentives to work that are ingrained in our country’s poverty relief programs.
In a recent conversation, Jennifer Johnson, a former lawyer turned child care cooperative director, told me, “Many of the women (she) represented were good mothers. They loved and desired to parent their children. However, they just couldn’t figure out how to work and pay for child care.” Jennifer’s story represents similar conversations that I have had with pregnancy care center directors, child care centers and nonprofit leaders.
When Good Samaritan Health Centers of Gwinnett went bankrupt in 2005, they knew they’d have to make some changes to their free clinic model. Dr. Greg Lang, Executive Director, explains, “As a healthcare center, we have to use highly-educated, licensed providers. We can’t rely on volunteers, like many other nonprofits are able to do. Charging for services became a financial necessity.”
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- The Forge: Residential Life Transformation Lessons from a Man with a Resume
- The Power of Unconditional Love: A Synopsis of Same Kind of Different As Me
- Reframing Our Ministry Practices in Light of God’s Story of Change
- Measuring Impact: Notes from a True Charity Chat
- Is the Pursuit of Human Flourishing Scriptural?
- The Pitfalls of Housing First: A Better Path to Solving Homelessness
- The Impact of Servant Leadership
- A Pathway to Success for America’s Youth: A Synopsis of Agency
