Does Compassion International Child Sponsorship Work?
Today, thanks to the research of Dr. Bruce Wydick, professor of economics and international studies at the University of San Francisco, there is research data showing how and why child sponsorship works through our program. And the results are very exciting!
How Does Child Sponsorship Rate as a Strategy to Help the Poor?
How does child sponsorship stack up against other ways to help the poor? Economics professor, Bruce Wydick reveals the answer to this question in his recent research findings.
The Compassion Child Sponsorship Program: What Does Research Show?
Over a period of two years, a team of researchers led by Dr. Bruce Wydick studied adults who were registered with the Compassion Child Sponsorship program from 1980-1992. What did the team discover?
Research Shows: Child Sponsorship Through Compassion Works
[…] program. And more than $3.2 billion go into these sponsorship programs every year. Which must mean that child sponsorship works, right? That’s the exact question Dr. Bruce Wydick, professor for the Department of Economics at the University of San Francisco, asked … and he was surprised to learn that almost no in-depth research into […]
Experience Compassion Conference: Colorado Springs 2014
[…] on June 27-28, 2014. Meet sponsor alumni from India, SATISH KUMAR, engage in worship led by the ROBBIE SEAY BAND, hear from powerful speakers such as BRUCE WYDICK, DR. SCOTT TODD and Compassion International’s President and CEO, SANTIAGO “JIMMY” MELLADO. Santiago “Jimmy” Mellado Bruck Wydick, Ph.D. Scott Todd Satish Kumar Robbie Seay Band Come […]
2019 Nobel Prize: How Research Is Key to Ending Global Poverty
[…] necessary to ensure our programs are making a difference and to determine how to structure them in the future. From 2008 to 2013, Compassion partnered with Bruce Wydick, of the University of San Francisco, on ground-breaking, peer-reviewed research that showed the impacts on adults who had been in our programs from 1980 to 1992. […]
What Are the Best Things in Life?
Since he has experienced need, not only in his family but in the lives of other children, Ronnie takes advantage of opportunities to help others. One day, he would like to sponsor a child.
Never More Loved
Leah looked for more and more reasons to stay away from her abusive home. She ended up joining a gang and did what they did just to have a sense of family.
Our Top Picks for Thoughtful Summer Entertainment
[…] Pastor John Mark Comer will help you find spiritual and mental health in a very busy world. Justice and the Gospel “The Shrewd Samaritan” (2019) by Bruce Wydick This book will help us learn how to love our neighbors well in our 21st century globalized world. Worship and Devotion “Beholding and Becoming: The Art […]
‘Poverty, Inc.’: The Global Poverty Industry
[…] glad to be part of Compassion. Compassion has practiced effective local child development approaches for a long time. Recent academic research like the study by Dr. Bruce Wydick from the University of San Francisco proves the impact of Compassion’s holistic child development programs. Compassion’s effectiveness is based on a highly relational development model that […]
The Key to Ending Poverty is Hope
[…] in the world. “The key to ending poverty resides in the capacity of human beings—and their view of their own capacity—to facilitate positive change.” – Dr. Bruce Wydick, professor of economics and international studies at the University of San Francisco Want to change the world? Sponsor a child today! You can enter the URLs […]
The Emerging Metrics of Doing Good
[…] can be researched and empirically validated. In his study, Does International Child Sponsorship Work? published in the prestigious Journal of Political Economy in April 2013, Dr. Bruce Wydick reported “large and statistically significant impacts” for adults who were part of Compassion’s sponsorship program as children from 1980 to 1992. The six-country, 10,000-subject research found […]
