True Charity
- 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’
- Lessons Learned in Affordable Childcare Ministry
- Measuring a Different Kind of ROI: How Philanthropists and Churches Can Spark True Transformation
- Does A Christian Worldview Boost Economic Outcomes?
- Why Voluntary Charity Is Not Optional: A Reflection on Rights and Duties
- How to Do Redemptive Welfare Reform
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.
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.
When Independence Is a Bad Idea — 3 Reasons for Nonprofits to Keep Depending on Donors
More and more nonprofit leaders are looking at ways to eventually become “completely self-sustaining.” Aiming to build enough of an endowment or revenue generation programs that they no longer need to rely on donors. But there’s a lot to like about the dynamic, so why work to eliminate it? TCI’s Travis Hurley offers three reasons for reliance on a donor base.
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.
Four Keys to Help Release People from Dependent Poverty
Most government programs to help the poor are designed less like a safety net to break a fall and more like a sticky spider’s web. The average nonprofit can’t fix the welfare system. However, there are a lot of practical things you can do to get your clients out of it and to keep them free.
Reports You Should Be Running on CharityTracker (But You’re Not!)
This web-based software provides program insights that can win donors, inform program design, and make your assistance more effective. Are you using it? TCI’s Savannah Aleckson explains.