Poor No More: Sustainable Solutions to Poverty in the Social Justice Era
Ebook
Extreme poverty can be alleviated one village at a time.
The current practices of global aid agencies, governments, and NGOs all focus on the same failed strategy: transfer payments. The problem is that moving money without growing local economic systems for sustainability does not work. People need jobs and businesses, not handouts.
There is a better way.
In this book you will discover how these different systems can positively work together to bring about the long-term, locally sustainable results that we all desire. This is transformational work, and we will need to pause on the rhetoric, biases, and existing structural models to engage in a different way of doing things. Donors, communities in transition, local leaders, churches, governments--all are invited to revamp our thinking to actually achieve the results that form our common goal.
No one wants to be seen in a poverty state. God doesn't create people to be poor and impoverished. He does not! God gives--generously. That is why every community around the globe already has vast, untapped resources of human talent and vision, a treasure trove of divinely bestowed potential awaiting harvest. It's time to partner together for sustainable solutions to poverty!
“Poor No More delivers a transformative blueprint for sustainable change, emphasizing empowerment and independence through community-led initiatives and entrepreneurship. It boldly challenges traditional poverty narratives and outdated aid models, advocating for self-reliance over dependency. Essential for those dedicated to creating meaningful, lasting solutions to poverty, this book is a compelling call to action, urging a reimagined approach to uplift communities. A critical read for anyone invested in genuine transformation.”
—Talatu Bonat, assistant academic dean, International Theological Seminary
- Title: Poor No More: Sustainable Solutions to Poverty in the Social Justice Era
- Author: James Conner
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666785340, 9781666785333, 1666785334, 9781666785326, 1666785326, 1666785342
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666785340
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-23T00:11:35Z
Jim Conner leads graduate students in designing locally funded business models for sustainable community development through establishing businesses that will fund local charities and expand local economies. Conner has a background in business, finance, construction, coaching church planters globally—under his guidance, over forty non-English speaking church plants sprouted from a single church. Leading churches through transition for twenty-five years, he has also had the privilege of training church leaders internationally for eighteen years.