I often stress the importance of using grassroots organizations to alleviate poverty on a local level. Local organizations understand the local community and can meet the local community’s specific needs.
Unfortunately, most communities have become too passive about poverty. Almost all people realize they would rather live in a world without poverty, but they do not make local poverty alleviation a priority in their personal lives. Many people’s views on poverty amount only to passive indignation.
We need more than passive indignation to end poverty. We need to actively work to end poverty.
For organizations to work on fighting poverty on a larger scale, I suggest a poverty tour. By this, I mean to suggest that an organization focus on one local community at a time. One at a time, the organization could go to single towns or neighborhoods, and stay for a certain period of time. During that time, the organization could research the local situation and help spark a customized, local movement to end poverty in the specific place.
If you know about any organizations already doing some sort of poverty tour, then post about them in my World Hunger and Poverty Forums. Otherwise, keep in touch if the idea interests you. In the future, I will try to help organize such a tour.