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- What’s Justice Got to Do With It? How Justice Works With Charity to Uplift the Poor
- After The Storm: How to Shape Our Mercy Ministries for Long-term Success
- Second Chances: Helping Returning Citizens Reintegrate
- Is Healing From Childhood Adversity Possible? A Review of the Book Created to Heal.
- Is Your Mission Statement B.I.G. Enough?
- How to Locally Support Refugees
- How Do I Truly Help Panhandlers?
- Civil Society Crowded Out in Missouri
- Exchange Models Done Right: Eight Ways to Empower Without Exploiting
- Questions to Ask Before Starting a Supportive Housing Ministry
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.
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.
Forgiveness Is a Virtue. Student Debt Transfer Is Not.
Will student loan forgiveness help struggling Americans or put them one more step behind? TCI’s Savannah Aleckson explores the possibilities in her recent article, originally published in The American Spectator.
How Offering Restaurants Through Snap Fails Us All
Is expanding food stamps benefits to include restaurants a kindness or, as FDR put it, “a subtle destroyer of the human spirit”? TCI’s James Whitford explains how one state’s recent legislation doing just that is a disservice to those in need.
Throwing Government Housing At The Homeless Is Treating The Symptom
Debate over the term ‘homeless’ versus ‘houseless’ doesn’t provide a real solution, and neither does just offering a place to live. TCI’s James Whitford explains.
Please Stop Donating to the Worst Charity in America: There Are Better Ways to Help
Believe it or not, America’s most dysfunctional, misguided charity has a local chapter in almost every community across the country—often just around the corner from where you work, shop, or live. But don’t be fooled: there are better ways to give.