True Charity
- What’s the Best Way to Help a Panhandler?
- Four High-Impact Ways Your Church Can Serve the Poor
- How to Change Things When Change is Hard: A Bird’s Eye View on the Book Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
- The Key to Effective Charity: Image is Everything
- Beyond the Welfare State: How Civil Society Can Succeed Where Welfare Has Failed.
- Redemptive Charity Requires More of Us
- Food Aid Should Be Linked to a Willingness to Work
- A Review of In the Shadow of Plenty: Biblical Principles for Caring for the Poor by George Grant
- Collaboration Is Overrated: Why Charities Working Together Is Not the First Step
- What It Means to Flourish like a ‘Watered Garden’
The Non-Profit Leader’s Secret Weapon to Shaping Public Policy: Showing Up
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.
Not Just “Anything Helps”: A Biblical Example of Discerning Underlying Needs
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.
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.
7 Things Your Nonprofit Can Do To Help Your Clients Avoid or Escape the Welfare System
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.
The Child Care System Is Broken. Community-Led Solutions Can Fix It.
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.
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.