Principle #5: Community Empowerment

Principle #5: Community Empowerment

The most crucial principle in humanitarian work is community empowerment. It isn’t what a community can do WITH you there—it’s what they can do AFTER you’ve left. True success? Being able to fade out without people even noticing. If you hear...
Principle #4: Community-Led

Principle #4: Community-Led

Community-centric projects are the projects that stick. Coming in with an outside notion of what needs to be done will only get results while the outside organization is present. No one knows the needs of a community better than its own members. “In community...
Jen Brewer on The Nonprofit Show Podcast

Jen Brewer on The Nonprofit Show Podcast

What if our best intentions were doing more harm than good? In this compelling and unflinchingly honest conversation, global humanitarian consultant Jen Brewer, Vice President at Care for Life, challenges the deeply ingrained dynamics behind the so-called “hero...
Principle #3: Comprehensive

Principle #3: Comprehensive

“Poverty programs that are comprehensive and simultaneously address multiple factors are more likely to promote long-term stability for individuals and families.” – IACD, 2016 Here’s the reality: Poverty isn’t caused by just one thing. It...