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Local Churches, Local Resources, Lasting Change

Local Churches, Local Resources, Lasting Change

By | May 8, 2025

Microfinance can be a powerful tool for helping people escape extreme poverty. When we shift our thinking, it can be even more powerful. How can we make the most of the opportunities microfinance provides?

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The Finish Line Podcast When Helping Hurts in How We Give

Helping Without Hurting in Financial Partnership

By | April 19, 2022

The Chalmers Center’s Founder and President Brian Fikkert was recently interviewed on the Finish Line Podcast on the topic “When Helping Hurts in How We Give.”  The Conversation covered many themes from When Helping Hurts and Becoming Whole—including understanding when to apply relief, rehabilitation, and development in poverty alleviation as well as how to flip…

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Women in a savings group in West Africa

Real Churches, Real Change

By | March 2, 2021

Through the Chalmers Center’s Restore: Savings curriculum and our network of trainers and partners, thousands of local churches in the Majority World have been equipped to launch savings groups. In church after church, we’ve seen God take the mustard seeds of people’s savings and grow them into a harvest of hope in the midst of deep poverty. 

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Illustration of people on a teeter-totter

From Needs to Assets—Shifting the Dynamic of Ministry

By | September 21, 2020

When we try to help people, we often start by trying to identify what’s wrong with the low-income individual or community, and then we try to bring in outside resources to fix what’s wrong. What if we started with what’s right with the people and communities we serve?

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