I’m back to feeling a little overwhelmed. It’s different from when this pandemic and shutdown first started. Now I’m overwhelmed by ideas, innovation and inspiration. I keep losing emails. Because…
Tag: <span>Charitable Giving</span>
It’s storming out there. I don’t need to recap the health and economic turmoil that COVID-19 has thrust upon us. The vulnerable are in our own family and community. They’re…
Having celebrated all that we’re grateful for at Thanksgiving, Giving Tuesday is about taking action—inspiring each of us to give generously towards bettering our communities and our world. If you’re…
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.” —Carl Rogers There was a morning in 2002 where I woke up…
“Who cares? I’m dead!” I poured three circles of olive oil into the heated pan, placed the bottle back onto the kitchen counter, and looked over at my husband who…
I won the lottery of life. I was born in the U.S. I’ve never personally experienced war or genocide. I was born to two upstanding parents. I always had a…
“I decided last night that I would double down.” This was the first line of an email I sent on November 10, 2016 to remind friends of an upcoming breakfast…
“I have those butterflies in my stomach again.” I smiled reading the last line of an email to my friend and mentor. The date stamp was August 2014. It took…
“But you wonder if it’s all even making a difference.” My friend Teri and I were talking about all of the new developments in philanthropic giving. There are the generous…
I have mixed feelings about the word “philanthropist.” For me, the word brings up images of men in tuxedos and women in gowns and pearls walking down grand staircases at…
