True Charity
- Leading Through Change: Lessons from Hope Counseling Center’s Bold Switch
- 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
Leading Through Change: Lessons from Hope Counseling Center’s Bold Switch
Missouri’s 2020 expansion of Medicaid made Hope Counseling Center’s mission of providing affordable primary care obsolete almost overnight. Rather than close their doors for good, they courageously pivoted to providing affordable mental health care. The results speak for themselves.
Lessons Learned in Affordable Childcare Ministry
Sparrow’s Nest in St. Charles County, MO, shifted from maternity care to offering low-cost childcare for parents. Here’s what they’ve learned along the way.
Call a Meeting: The Best Way to Kill Collaboration
A common method for addressing community problems is to call a collaborative meeting of stakeholders — with no attention paid to a shared mindset. Discover why that approach doesn’t work from nonprofit leader Kristin Parker of Shared City.
Best Practices for Starting a Community-supported Warming Shelter
Though summer temperatures are rising, now is the time to plan for the frigid winter to come. Hear how Compassionate Hands in Lebanon, TN, provides the homeless with warmth, relationships, and actionable steps toward flourishing.
God Has Told Us What is Good: Gardens, Meals, and Fighting the Welfare Cliff at 6:8 Ministries
Led by God to consider four passages bearing the verse marker “6:8,” John and Sarah Ramthun began a ministry in Sauk City, WI committed to making care for the poor personal. The result has been nothing short of miraculous.
Partnering with Landlords for Affordable Housing
Charities often face challenges in providing affordable housing due to limited resources, but partnering with landlords who share a heart for ministry provides an innovative way forward. Hear about two ministries that combine housing with support services. Avery West shares.