What Makes Charity Work?: A Century of Public and Private Philanthropy [Hardcover]

It is the definitive forum for the best new ideas in urban government.City Journal is consistently the most stimulating source of reporting and analysis.Even when I disagree with City Journal, I dare not ignore it.City Journal is the great Fool Killer in the arena of urban policy. It's more than sharp and penetrating.Superlative reports drawn from City Journal show how charities old and new can succeed spectacularly when they encourage the poor to take control of their own lives and when they teach habits of self-reliance and the traditional virtues. Here is an urgent issue considered in vivid and practical fashion. City Journal is the great Fool Killer in the arena of urban policy. It's more than sharp and penetrating. It's a joy to read. Tom Wolfe. It is a perfect time to understand better why some charities succeed and others fail. For this purpose and others, What Makes Charity Work? is a must. Leslie Lenkowsky, Wall Street Journal.A compassionate America has spent more than $5 trillion on welfare programs over three decades, but the poor haven't vanished, and the self-destructive behavior that imprisons many in poverty has become an intergenerational inheritance. Drawing on the City Journal's superlative reporting, What Makes Charity Work? shows in concrete and compelling detail how government assistance to the poor is doomed to failure  because it treats them as victims of forces beyond their control, robs them of a sense of personal responsibility, and neglects the virtues they need to escape poverty. Contrasting case studies of charities both old and new show how charity can succeed spectacularly when it encourages the poor to take control of their own lives and teaches them habits of self-reliance and the traditional virtues. Here are accounts of charities that follow these precepts and have not only brought individuals into the economic and social mainstream but have delivered whole classes of people from poverty and degradation into the middle class l3Y