Aspire to Serve the Difficult Cases
Ministries naturally gravitate toward serving applicants most likely to succeed — not from bad intentions, but a sincere desire for stability. Valerie Lindsay, Executive Director of the Maternity Hous...
13 Loka 10min
Fix the Systems
Most nonprofit leaders start with a passion for the mission and end up, by day 100, also serving as bookkeeper, database administrator, volunteer coordinator, and the one who stays late in April hunti...
13 Loka 8min
From the Front Lines to the Policy Table: Part 1
Some of the people who understand public policy best have never set foot in a state capital. They're the nonprofit leader helping a single mother keep her family housed, the caseworker watching a fath...
14 Syys 10min
Staff Turnover, Team Conflict, and Burnout: How Living Out Your Core Values Will Help Solve Those Issues
A trusted employee resigns. Team conflict simmers. Dedicated staff show signs of burnout. Leaders respond with more meetings, more training, another staff retreat — and the same problems return anyway...
14 Syys 11min
Faith that Shows Up: Serving with Consistency and Care
Show Notes: A one-time act of kindness feels good in the moment, but Scripture doesn't frame care for the poor as optional or occasional. Learn what it actually takes to move from scattered acts of g...
10 Syys 7min
The Poverty Crisis Is Bigger Than You Realize—And So Is Your Opportunity
Roughly one in three Americans receive some form of federal financial assistance — and behind every statistic is a person trapped in dependency, cut off from the relationships and opportunities that c...
12 Elo 9min
Nine Empowering Models for Effective Charity
Ideas and implementation are not the same thing. Just as an aspiring pilot needs both the classroom and the cockpit, effective charity practitioners need to know what to do and what it looks like to a...
11 Elo 17min
