A founder’s wealth is rarely in cash, and giving teaching rarely leaves cash. Equity gifts, land, inventory, capacity, and skill as the founder’s actual generosity portfolio.
Non-Cash Generosity for Founders: Equity, Land, and Inventory as Worship Read More »
The tithe debate asks the wrong question. Ten percent was never the ceiling of generosity but its training floor, and what rises above any floor depends on the walls: systems.
Tithe as Floor, Systems as Walls: Building the House Generosity Lives In Read More »
Setting a lifestyle cap and giving the rest is a beautiful resolve that dies without machinery. The household operating system that makes finish-line generosity survivable.
Finish Line Without a Family OS: Why Generosity Goals Die in the Calendar Read More »
Faith-driven deals open with covenant talk and close on standard paper. The clauses where Kingdom intent could actually live, and why it usually dies in legal review.
Term Sheets and Temptation: Covenant Language That Never Makes It Into the Deal Read More »
The faith-driven movement’s flywheel, capital to companies to jobs to generosity, runs differently in frontier markets. The East African turning, bind by bind.
Faith-driven investing and ESG often exclude the same stocks and fund similar projects, and aim at different ends. Why telos, not screens, is the real distinction.
Faith-Driven vs ESG: Same Screens, Different Telos Read More »
ABCD taught development to start with what communities have. Marketplace programs still start with what founders lack. Translating asset-based practice into enterprise support.
Asset-Based Development for Marketplace Programs, Not Just Villages Read More »
Impact is a fog; a payroll is a fact. What happens to programs, capital, and ventures when durable jobs become the measure, and what the jobs metric still cannot see.
Jobs as the Metric: What Changes When Employment Replaces Impact Read More »
Business as Mission fails when one venture is asked to carry what only an ecosystem can: capital, discipleship, markets, and community. The ecosystem map.
BAM Is an Ecosystem, Not a Silver Bullet: Where Operators Waste Years Read More »
The dependency critique was aimed at beneficiaries; it applies to organizations too. How the program economy disciples nonprofits into the patterns they preach against.
When Helping Hurts Inside Your Own Nonprofit: Mission Drift in the Program Economy Read More »