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
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.
Take the Fear Out of the Ministry of Fundraising
If your experience has been anything like mine, you’ve had a negative view of fundraising at some point in your life (and maybe you still do now). When I was approached ten years ago to consider coming on staff in the development department with a private college, I first had to ask what “development” even was. When I was told it was primarily fundraising, I said, “No, thank you!” I didn’t want to be part of a field I had always seen as a necessary evil that burdened donors, and I was fearful of the responsibility that came with finding an organization’s necessary funding.
Owning Your Nonprofit’s Digital Footprint: Charity Rating Sites
Most nonprofits have at least two digital footprints: a website and social media profiles. But, charity rating sites can also be helpful tools in bringing exposure to your organization. Whether you know it or not, if your organization is a 501(c)3, it is likely listed on the various charity rating sites. This article discusses how to update your org’s profile to best represent what you’re doing.
How to Turn Your Food Pantry Into a Community Co-op
“Our food pantry has been feeding the same families for years. Is there anything we can do to bring about long term transformation in people’s lives?” The leaders who ask this question know that their clients don’t merely lack food, but they also often suffer from a lack of community and self-worth.
What Is Community Development, and How Do I Start?
The phrase “community development” can bring up images of everything from trash pickups to bike lanes to block parties. What really is community development, and how can your church or organization incorporate it into your work?
Community development can be so nebulous because it is, very simply, members of the community coming together to make their community better. So, what do beautification projects and festivals and mixed income housing have to do with poverty?