True Charity
- 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’
- Lessons Learned in Affordable Childcare Ministry
- Measuring a Different Kind of ROI: How Philanthropists and Churches Can Spark True Transformation
The Government Just Took a Step in Loving People to Death
As of September 1, if you were homeless, work requirements established in the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act no longer apply to you. They neither apply if you’re a veteran or have aged out of the foster care system and are under 24.
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.
Scrapping the Limit, Save, Grow Act: A Missed Opportunity
More Americans returning to work equates to less government spending on social programs, but it also restores dignity and strengthen community. James Whitford explains more about a missed opportunity in his article, originally publlished in InsideSources.
Doubling Down on Failed Housing First Approach to Homelessness
The USICH sets lofty goals for reducing homelessness by doubling down on the failed Housing First program—yet the USICH themselves have admitted that though “funding for homelessness assistance has increased every year,” the unsheltered population has grown by a staggering 20.5% nationally.
Houselessness Isn’t the Problem and “Why” Isn’t the Only Question to Ask
No across-the-board solutions exist for resolving homelessness. But, more granular data – specific to a community’s population vs. an entire county – can help identify common causes. TCI’s James Whitford discusses how a recent state bill can help do just that.
Expanded Camping Access Won’t Solve Homelessness
Housing First is intended to quickly connect people experiencing homelessness to permanent housing “without preconditions such as sobriety, treatment or service participation requirements.” Yet, it has the unfortunate result of trapping people in a cycle of dependency.