Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it Toxic Charity provides proven new models for charitable groups who want to help-not sabotage-those whom they desire to serve Lupton the founder of FCS Urban Ministries (Focused Community Strategies) in Atlanta the voice of the Urban Perspectives newsletter & the author of Compassion Justice & the Christian Life has been at the forefront of urban ministry activism for forty years Now in the vein of Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty Richard Stearns's The Hole in Our Gospel & Gregory Boyle's Tattoos on the Heart his groundbreaking Toxic Charity shows us how to start serving needy & impoverished members of our communities in a way that will lead to lasting real-world change