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
How and Why One Life Transformation Ministry Helps Clients Get Untangled from the Social “Safety Net”
The U.S. has an elaborate social safety net. What if, rather than catching them when they fall, individuals get caught in the “net,” preventing freedom from dependency? TCI’s Jeff Lofting describes how one organization works with individuals to get untangled and free.
10 Ways Your Church Can Walk with Moms Post-Roe
Post-Roe America: True Charity’s own Avery West explains how churches can respond in this article originally published in The Gospel Coalition.
Amplifying Your Message: Getting Started With Public Awareness in Your Community
A public awareness strategy can enrich your organization, those you serve, and your greater community-but how do you get started? TCI’s Jeff Lofting provides the rationale for and steps to effectively communicate your work and the reasons behind it.
Level Up: Embracing Empowerment in Your Ministry
How do we shift the balance of our programs from relief towards development? How can we meet vital and basic needs repetitively without also being complicit in the dependency trap? How can we motivate the people we help to do more to help themselves? How can we level up? Look up, expect up, and size up.
3 Ways to Empower Mentees
How can you set up your mentoring program to affirm the unique gifts of each mentee, encourage mutuality, and set the mentee up for self-sufficiency after the program ends? Check out these three ideas from our upcoming Mentoring Model Action Plan.
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.