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Community worker urges United Way crowd to change outlook about poor
Helping hand rather than handouts is goal, Lupton insists
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Focused Communities Strategies founder Bob Lupton speaks Sept. 7 during the annual United Way of Hall County campaign kickoff at the First Baptist Church banquet hall in Gainesville. - photo by Scott Rogers
Helping giving the less fortunate a leg up rather than a handout was a Christian community developer’s message to a Gainesville audience Thursday morning. “If you want to change a community, the very best way of doing that is to become a part of that community, to work from the inside out,” Bob Lupton, author of “Toxic Charity,” said at the United Way of Hall County’s annual campaign kickoff.