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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
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.
3 Best Practices of a Volunteer-Driven Ministry
An empowered volunteer team can be the backbone of an effective and cost-efficient ministry. The more clearly you convey how essential they are, equip them to succeed, and show you appreciate their efforts, the more likely you are to have such a team. TCI’s Travis Hurley shares best practices in recruitment, training, and retention.
What’s the Difference Between an Earn-it Project and a Social Enterprise?
Social enterprises, businesses that tackle social needs, provide sustainable solutions. Earn-it models, where individuals earn their basic needs, also serve a crucial role in many paths out of poverty. So what is the difference, and why does it matter?
People in Poverty Need Financial Knowledge—Here’s Why Most Financial Classes Are Failing Them
Financial knowledge is critical to escaping poverty, but research shows that most financial classes fail to change behavior. Here’s why that is, and what you can do about it.