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21 " • R&D is vital. • Invest in success: sound business principles also are good principles for responsible charitable investing. • Focus on your passions. • Investigate the best practices of those in the field to determine what works. • Create a prototype to test new approaches. • Record the process. • Document the findings. • Tweak the methods. • Replicate successes. "
― Robert D. Lupton , Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It)
22 " Social entrepreneurs are driven to find sustainable solutions to the world’s perplexing social problems. "
― Robert D. Lupton , Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
23 " The downward mobility of the kingdom strikes at the very heart of our earthly strivings. "
― Robert D. Lupton , Theirs Is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America
24 " Why do we persist in giving away food when we know it fosters dependency?” “Because it’s easier! "
25 " parity is the higher form of charity. "
26 " American churches are at the forefront of the burgeoning compassion industry, spending billions on dependency-producing food pantries, clothes closets, service projects, and mission trips that serve mainly themselves and inadvertently turn people into beggars. "
27 " The strategy of crisis intervention must then shift to a strategy of development. "
28 " economists like Sachs view reality from a sanitary thirty-thousand-foot distance, not at a grassroots level where social entrepreneurs sweat over spreadsheets. The amazing gains in global poverty alleviation are primarily the result of mushroom explosions in the economies of India and China. Very little change has taken place in sub-Saharan Africa or Latin America. "
29 " But not all arriving tourists evoke such positive responses. The sight of a van loaded with T-shirted mission-trippers elicits the opposite reaction. The short-term missionaries on board are unwitting saboteurs of the fragile micromerchant economy. Instead of bolstering local enterprise through their purchases, these tourists-on-a-mission eviscerate local businesses by flooding the market with suitcases full of free clothes, shoes, and other saleable goods. Their naive kindness undercuts the very system locals depend on for their livelihood—as Patrick Woodyard confirmed before he launched his Nisolo brand. "