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Brian Fikkert • When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself

these immediate needs are just symptoms of deeper issues, your benevolence team offers to pursue a longer-term developmental approach with them.

Brian Fikkert • Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence: A Practical Guide to Walking with Low-Income People

For the first time, I met people who believed in me. Instead of hearing, “You’ll never amount to anything,” I started hearing, “You can do this” and “Things can be different.” I was partnered with several mentors (allies) who became my good friends. They taught me things I had never learned. Things as simple as how to dress for a job interview, mak

Kelly M. Kapic • A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alleviation Ministries

Zimbardo defines heroism as “intentional action to protect others without expectation of personal gain and with awareness of likely personal costs.” He adds, “Heroes defend, uphold, and promote causes that benefit the greater good, despite pressures to do otherwise or potential risks to doing so.”

Michael J. Gelb • The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World

I have discovered in my time here that the people who inspire me the most are those who left the hallway, shut the door behind them and settled in. It’s Fred Rogers recording Episode 895 of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood because he was committed to advancing a humane model of children’s television. It’s Dorothy Day sitting with the same outcast folks nig... See more

Pete Davis • “A Counterculture of Commitment” Speech

But preaching the Gospel is a function of trying to reach the human heart, whether people are poor or rich or middle class. And the bad breaks and tragic mysteries of life exist in plenitude in a city parish.

Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

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Brené Brown • A coragem de ser você mesmo (Portuguese Edition)

“There’s a consistent theme in Fred’s career of people underestimating him. I don’t think that it’s widely understood . . . what a powerful intellect he had, and . . . for lack of a better term, what a tough guy he was. He had a passion about helping children that his famous gentle manner belied, and he had a really steely core.”13 Elizabeth Seaman