Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It)

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Title: Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It)
Author: Robert D. Lupton
Publisher: HarperOne
Year: 2011
208 pages

A very accessible introduction to concerns about charities and service visits, most of which appears elsewhere but in more technical form. It would be useful as a reading for groups (especially religious organizations) planning missions, both domestically and internationally.

Lupton is a little self-contradictory around the edges and seems to cherry-pick Moyo's Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, but I haven't finished reading that yet and could be misunderstanding its conclusions.