In sharp contrast to the more personal and “selfish” motives above, the next motive for entrepreneurial work is that of compassion.  There are many individuals and organizations who believe that the best way to have compassion on the poor in developing countries is to help them start their own businesses.  PovertyCure is an international network of organizations and individuals seeking to ground the common battle against global poverty in a proper understanding of the human person and society, and to encourage solutions that foster opportunity and unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that already fills the developing world.

While there is no single solution to poverty, and good people will disagree about methods, PovertyCure has joined together to rethink poverty, encourage discussion and debate, promote effective compassion, and advance entrepreneurial solutions to poverty informed by sound economics, local knowledge, the lessons of history and reflections from the Judeo-Christian tradition.

PovertyCure believes that Christ calls us to solidarity with the poor, and that this means more than simple charitable assistance. It means seeing the poor not as objects or experiments, but as partners and brothers and sisters, as fellow creatures made in the image of God with the capacity to solve problems and create new wealth for themselves and their families. At a practical level, it means integrating them into established networks of exchange and productivity.  The following video discusses this by giving some concrete examples.