3 Ways to Identify Toxic Charity May 31, 2022 The Lupton Center is passionate about helping neighborhood practitioners move far away from toxic charity. In fact, our existence stems from the experiences our founder Bob Lupton had as he recognized the ways well-meaning people who wanted to help ended up causing... Shawn Duncan
10 Lessons We’ve Learned in 10 Years of Toxic Charity December 8, 2021 Here are our top 10 insights in how to avoid Toxic Charity. We’ve learned these lessons in the 10 years since Toxic Charity first came out! FCS Founder Bob Lupton shined a light on the ways that traditional philanthropic models were failing to have a lasting... Shawn Duncan
3 Places Where Toxic Charity Shows Up September 28, 2021 Hey Change-Maker! You’ve come to this page because you love your neighbor and you want to make an impact. We want to affirm that. And we know that you want to avoid causing harm to your neighbors and your neighborhoods. That means avoiding Toxic Charity. If you’ve... Shawn Duncan
Toxic Charity: What it is and how to avoid it September 13, 2021 Our founder Bob Lupton published Toxic Charity ten years ago. After years of working alongside neighbors in Atlanta, he realized the ways that well-meaning people who wanted to help ended up causing harm to the very people they wanted to serve. His passion to help... Shawn Duncan
Toxic Charity: A Holistic Overview September 6, 2021 In October 2011, a transformative book hit the scene. Bob Lupton had penned Toxic Charity: How the Churches and Charities Hurts Those They Help and How to Reverse It. The book shined a light on the ways traditional charity models typically failed to alleviate poverty,... Shawn Duncan
Good Samaritanization: The Bible, Poverty, and Community Development May 13, 2021 Every community of faith we have ever worked with knows, without a doubt, THAT the Bible calls us to respond to poverty, but very few of them have much clarity on what it says about HOW. Let me explain. The Good Samaritanization of Poverty Alleviation I never would... Shawn Duncan
How Development Disrupts Chronic Poverty January 12, 2021 How Neighborhood Development Disrupts Chronic Poverty Let’s get right to it: humanitarian organizations exist for the sake of… humans. Whether you’re doing nonprofit work, faith-based ministry, philanthropy, or volunteer work, your work is all about making life better... Shawn Duncan