Paul M. Jones | Charity 2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 Your Help Is Hurting: How Church Foreign Aid Programs Make Things Worse 2013-08-05T22:46:06-05:00 When you try to help, you try to give things, you start to have the consequences. There’s an author Bob Lupton, who really nails it when he says that when he gave something the first time, there was gratitude; and when he gave something a second... Canadian relief for Moore tornado victims denied at border 2013-06-01T14:34:08-05:00 A Canadian shipment of relief goods bound for storm-ravaged Oklahoma has been stopped at the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ont. American officials will not allow the 20,000 kilograms of food, blankets and diapers into the country until every item on... Your Charitable Giving Is Irrational: You Care More About "Looking Good" Than "Doing Good" 2013-04-08T10:08:55-05:00 Then Robin Hanson of Overcoming Bias got up and just started Robin Hansonning at everybody. First he gave a long list of things that people could do to improve the effectiveness of their charitable donations. Then he declared that since almost no one... Homeless Man Behind Viral NYPD Photo Now Shoeless Again, Demanding ‘Piece of the Pie’ 2012-12-04T12:28:17-06:00 The New York City homeless man – whose gift of boots from an NYPD police officer became an online sensation last week  – is back on the streets with no shoes. The New York Times found him Sunday night wandering barefoot in Manhattan. The... Finally, Some Sensible Health Care Reform Ideas 2009-08-12T12:49:58-05:00 John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, posts The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare at the WSJ. The 8 things he lists are: Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs). E... What Is Poverty? 2009-08-02T11:30:23-05:00 When every benefit is received as a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone gratitude. ... In the welfare state, mere survival is not the achievement that it is, say, in the cities of Africa, and therefore it cannot confer the self-respe... Aid Realism for the Idealist 2009-06-30T08:03:42-05:00 There is a powerful role both for the market and for philanthropy...Philanthropy alone lacks the feedback mechanism of markets, which are the best listening devices we have; and yet markets alone too easily leave the most vulnerable behind. via Marg...