True Charity
- Find Your People: Why the True Charity Summit Is the Ultimate Event To Ignite Effective Compassion
- One Young Momma at a Time
- Learned Helplessness: The Hidden Barrier to Escaping Poverty
- 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
Community Christmas: One Church’s Relational Alternative to Christmas Toy Giveaways
“When we ran a toy giveaway program at Christmas, fathers were never the ones coming to pick up gifts for their families,” Heather Fullerton remembers. Dads felt ashamed that strangers were providing presents for their kids. “But now that we’ve started Community Christmas, dad comes to shop.” True Charity’s Avery West explains here.
How One Idaho-Based Program Honors Achievement at Christmas Time and Beyond
For Maggie Lyons of Charity Reimagined, Christmas represents an opportunity not just to give gifts, but to remind people of their giftings. In fact, she’s helped shape a program centered around the idea that everyone has capacity to contribute and honoring capacity is a beautiful thing.
Expecting Little Miracles: How One Scholarship Program Encourages Hard Work, Self-Sufficiency, and Service
“What can we do so you don’t need us anymore?” Missy Hanks asks this to anyone who applies to the Expecting Little Miracles scholarship program. By encouraging those individuals to turn around and serve, one little miracle for an individual could impact generations.
Therapeutic Community: How a Residential Program Teaches Clients to Hold Each Other Accountable
Challenging, relational programs are an effective path to life transformation. The only downside to such models is that they usually require a high ratio of staff and volunteers to clients. Ascent Recovery proves that there is another way.
Therapeutic Spreadsheets: How Data Facilitate Healing at a Transitional Housing Ministry
In 2006, Jay and Julie St. Clair helped transform a ramshackle apartment complex known on the street as “The Last Resort” into an urban transitional housing program they christened “God’s Resort.” From the original few units, God’s Resort has expanded to now offer nearly 40 housing units…
Relationships and Science: A Winning Combination for an Oregon Nonprofit
The data speaks for itself: a mere 2% of adults who work full-time live in poverty. Additionally, working adults are happier and healthier than their non-working counterparts. Klamath Works, in Klamath Falls, Oregon, has taken to heart the value of work—and discovered a little-known scientific tool for getting clients into jobs that work for them.