![]() ![]() Brian’s books Becoming Whole and A Field Guide to Becoming Whole.The Innovate course by the Chalmers Center.The Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College.“Every nonprofit is terrified of their financial resource partners.”.“God has wired us to be priest-rulers to extend his reign and his worship from the Garden of Eden throughout all of creation.“There’s a better story for the poor, and there’s a better story for us, than the story of the American Dream of highly individualistic, highly self-centered, highly materialistic existence.”.“We are functioning out of a theory of change that is more reflective of a Western individualism than of a proper understanding of what a human being is.”.“We’ve got to start moving into how God really works in the world, and most of us aren’t functioning out of that very well.”.“I think financial supporters have one of the most difficult jobs in the whole world.”.There is a place for bringing in outside resources when the local resources are inadequate, but those outside resources should only be brought in when they compliment the internal resources rather than crush them.”.“Most poor people in the world are not in a crisis, they are actually in a chronic condition.”.“If you can actually get people working again, it has it’s own therapeutic effect.”.“The poor tend to describe their condition in far more psychological and social terms.”.“We tend to define poverty as a lack of physical things, hence our solutions tend towards providing physical things”.Listen now to hear all Brian had to share! Quotes to Remember He also had some insightful thoughts on the ways that donors and nonprofits interact with each other and how we as givers can most wisely steward the dollars given to us. FARMER BRIAN BOOKU HOW TOA number of years ago, Brian and the Chalmers Center published the well known book When Helping Hurts, which has become a cornerstone on the core principles of poverty alleviation.īrian had a wealth of wisdom to share on topics like knowing when to provide relief, rehabilitation, and development as well as how to flip from a needs-based approach to an assets-based approach. ![]() has expanded to include jobs preparedness, welfare training, and financial literacy. Their initial work with microfinance and local savings unions worldwide has gone on to large scale operations with organizations like Hope International and Five Talents. But the more Brian was exposed to the poor, the more he came to see poverty as a complicated blend of the two.īrian founded the Chalmers Center at Covenant College to guide the Church in its response to poverty. On the other hand, the church tended to define people as purely spiritual. On one hand, economists tended to define people as entirely physical. Despite his formal training in economics, he felt early on that the prevailing understanding of poverty left much lacking. From an early age, Brian felt called to work in the area of poverty. Brian Fikkert is the Founder and President of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development as well as the co-author of the well known book When Helping Hurts. ![]()
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