True Charity
- Doing Them Well By Being With Them First: The Power of Presence in Effective Charity
- Achieving Advantageous Outcomes with Self Assessments
- The Power of Collaboration: Strengthen Your Poverty Alleviation Ministry Together
- Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: A Synopsis
- Respecting Agency and Truth in Relationships
- Five Ways to Improve Children’s Safety at Your Ministry
- A Framework for Flourishing: A Synopsis of When Helping Hurts
- When Social Capital Moves in Next Door: The Best Evidence on Gentrification
- The Maker Versus The Takers: What Jesus Really Said About Social Justice and Economics
- The Emotional and Mental Health Crisis in Poverty
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.
Low-Cost Health Care with Dignity
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.”
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.
Carrying One Another’s Burdens
What is our role in working with those in need? Are we responsible for or to them? Understanding the difference between those two prepositions is vital in preventing dependency and nurturing individuals’ capacity. Guest contributor Doug Gamble explains.