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Every day we have the opportunity to make decisions to honor who we are. I would hope that because you are reading this you are someone who believes you have a very important path to travel.
Your life can be more than simply living from day to day. Yet, many people are living from day to ... Views: 1570
As we all know Charity begins from home, but should not end there and there are still great deal of poverty in many parts of the world and still there are people below the poverty line. In most of the countries (except developed ones) a large part of population is still struggling to fulfill ... Views: 1566
I am in Cambodia now, the town of Siem Reap and am amazed at how many charity foundations there are in this town, three hundred NGO's (non-governmental associations), one everywhere you look. I have visited with several projects so far and learnt about a very interesting problem.
The main ... Views: 1782
Recently, some of the books I ordered came to me with printing issues on the cover. I was devastated because I knew I couldn't sell them, nor could they be given away without covers on them. For me, this was a real waste of good material. Since I never throw anything away, I wanted to see what I ... Views: 1315
Do you produce good fruits? If so, are they sweet and nutritious, or are they shining on the outside but wormy on the inside?
Good fruits? Well, I'm talking about the good works you do. But how can good works be wormy? "Good" works are wormy and rotten when they are done with the wrong ... Views: 2301
From following my blog, I’m sure you have gotten the sense that I’m not a woman who sits on the sideline watching life go by. I am engaged with life. I live a life of action.
Action comes from confidence. Confidence comes from action. What initiates everything in my life is my focused ... Views: 1383
I wish I didn’t know what a broken heart felt like. I wish there was no illness. I wish I never knew what homeless meant. I wish there was no such thing as war. I wish I never heard or said an angry word. I wish my heart didn’t know what it was like to ache for someone not with us anymore. ... Views: 2617
The meaning of Christmas is different for different people. Like For most of the people, it's a religious day, for some it’s just a holiday. For others, it is to celebrate weekend because there are two occasions Christmas and New Year. Everyone has their own reasons but regardless of how or why ... Views: 1636
The time has come when we cannot just rely on others to make the world a better place – each one of us has to do our bit. And let’s face it this world needs our help right now.
Random acts of kindness are an ideal way to raise your energy to attract great things in to your life. It starts ... Views: 1888
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~Winston Churchill
We live in a give-and-take society. When we give, we usually expect to get something in return. But sometimes we give for the sheer joy of giving. We don’t expect anything in return. It just makes us feel ... Views: 1481
You drive that very long drive to the old neighborhood. You see all the familiar surroundings along the way. We are getting closer to our destination; we are still 10 miles away and are already seeing the signs of destruction. There is a line of trees that have been uprooted and stripped of ... Views: 1890
There is a thin line between Ordinary and Extraordinary.
The word extra makes ordinary extraordinary. An extra mile, an extra effort and an extra thought makes ordinary extra ordinary.
We all Balance our professional life and family life,
is it or is it not? I feel it is definitely ... Views: 2263
Get Involved! Volunteer! This administration's determination to address recession fallout spans beyond the reach of bail out dollars, and into old fashioned barn-raising, with a passionate call to service. The United We Serve campaign challenges all Americans to make a difference by doing "good" ... Views: 1903
Hi there everyone!!
I love Obama and he is very much needed to give people of the world hope. Hope is the first, crucial step this world needs before it can embrace change.
The reason most people in the world can't cause change is because they do not acknowledge that hope is required ... Views: 2775
If you would like to find an enjoyable and fulfilling way to spend time with your family, consider family volunteering. Imagine you and your family planting trees at the local Arbor Day event. Or maybe you’d enjoy helping out at the local furniture or food bank to help other families regain ... Views: 2486
As I was running from store to store picking up presents for my family yesterday, I started noticing collection boxes and signs for charities who are in need of donations and volunteers at this special time of year.
That got me to thinking...this might be the first year that all of my ... Views: 1951
Last year, our wonderfully innovative fifth grade teachers came up with the idea of holding a Science Bee, with the winning student receiving creative awards made from basic science supplies.
The winner's award pack included: laboratory goggles, a composition notebook, a magnifying glass and ... Views: 1259
Josh turned over another plastic toy is his hand and decided to sleep on whether he could bear to part with it. In the morning, it was still there, proudly on top of the pile like a Christmas tree star - a shining token from a boy who couldn’t quite grasp the meaning of his gifts.
What he ... Views: 1051
Hey All You Big Givers!!
The first thing we may think of when we think of giving, is money (or gifts and presents which cost money). However, some of us may feel financially constrained . . . The second thing we may think of when we think of giving, is our time. With fast-paced lifestyles and ... Views: 2198
Hey All You Big Givers!!
Six years ago, I wrote an article called 7 Totally Different Ways to Give Big this Thanksgiving!!
Since then, I’ve come to learn that people need to know what giving is NOT. “The Secret” would say, don’t focus on what you don’t want. However, ... Views: 2165
Engaging followers who will become volunteers and donors is hard enough in the good times; now, your nonprofit is competing with disasters near and far that drown out your message. After all, even with Twitter, YouTube and all manner of media operating 24/7, there is still only so much personal ... Views: 2422
I grew up in the South. As a result of that I helped my mom make a lot of casseroles and salads for those who were sick and in need. It was just what you did. We belonged to a Presbyterian church and every Sunday we picked up Mrs. Browman, a woman who lived to be 100, every week so she could ... Views: 1413
1. Make an effort to look good. Because when people look good and know it, they tend to feel good. When you are feeling too self-conscious about your baggy jeans or the stain on your shirt, you have less mental energy to focus on other people's needs and concerns. On the other hand, if you ... Views: 1245
One day at my parents’ laundry mat/dry cleaners, my father saw a homeless man rummaging through our garbage dumpster looking for aluminum cans and glass bottles. For some inexplicable reason, my father asked the man to come into the dry cleaners, and to pick out some clothes from a box filled ... Views: 1147
Volunteering has been a part of America’s civic culture since the early days of barn raisings and quilting bees. Neighbors have nearly always been willing to pitch in and help others in times of need. Helping others is not out of fashion. In fact, a new trend in volunteerism is sweeping America ... Views: 2081
Volunteers make many organizations possible. Volunteers donate their time, effort and often professional expertise in order to help organizations they care about. Yet many organizations don't have a clue how to treat volunteers. In my many years of volunteering at various organizations, I have ... Views: 1991
I was asked the question why do Christians observe Lent. I explained that people use this time to reflect upon the sacrifice of Christ as they preparation of Easter. Many will give something up for one reason or another as to make God happy or deal with their guilt. Personally, I think the ... Views: 2403
I should be jumping with joy. All our class XII students have passed their examinations and this for the 8th year running. But before I could get down and savour the good news a mail dropped in my inbox informing me that one of our main donors would not be able to meet their monthly commitment ... Views: 1055
Across the spectrum of nonprofit organizations, a broad brush of advocacy concerns and efforts are underway - each as varied as the organization they represent.
Women’s Way is one of the youngest groups supporting legislative efforts that will positively impact the respect of, for and by ... Views: 1447
This is Anifatou Gado. She was born on March 6, 2005 into a small, respectable family. Her lovely mother cared for her and her three other siblings. Her hard working father made a living to support his wife and children by selling gasoline out of their home.
By the age of three, Anifatou ... Views: 1135
What is your contribution in the development of the nation? No doubt, you do every bit possible to make the nation a better place. But is it enough? As we put in all our efforts in improving the infrastructure, industries and economy of the nation, we tend to neglect a crucial element that makes ... Views: 796
Do you ever wonder who could possibly help a homeless person? The answer is each of us can help. It's called direct service - helping someone in need ourselves.
But how? There are many ways to help a person in need, including giving a homeless person a blanket. That's how we started Children ... Views: 1207
I remember something from my community college economics class that economy had something to do with scarcity.
All along I've been reading post after post about how to get what we want because all we need is available in abundance.
Seems to me we need to abolish the monetary system. What ... Views: 3341
I don't know the exact moment when I let some of my reservations go but I think it happened when I was on the back of a motoconcho (motorcycle) without a helmut zipping up a mountain in the Dominican Republic.
My longer than normal hair whipped around me; with my sunglasses on, I would tilt ... Views: 963
Financial or business planning is at its most powerful when it is well integrated with one's personal goals. And the ideal way to accomplish such an integration, at least for people with some degree of wealth, is starting a private foundation. Read on about why that is so, and how to go about it ... Views: 1122
The physical or mental activities done by the people to establish a stable status of the body are known as games. Games help the people to overcome the sorrow and grief of their mind and body. They are characterized by my features and are categorized on basis of those features. Usually, games ... Views: 1748
Recently, in a conversation with a community banking representative about the business of nonprofit agencies and civic engagement, she became quickly confused by my use of two terms.
Advocacy was one of them. Governance the other. But she was a banker and couldn’t be expected to know what ... Views: 1368
My career of several decades as a senior executive in the IT industry with GE, Honeywell and others provided me with a solid business perspective of the economy. My six years as President & CEO of Unity, a global spiritual organization, gave me the great gift of spiritual growth and a strong ... Views: 826
There is a little known secret going on here in America that little by little is starting to peek through the windows, and it has to do with human and sex trafficking. As good Americans we don't really like to talk about these types of things and the subject of sex can be quite taboo. But this ... Views: 917
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Just Be - by Micaela Bellopede, Miraclecather Photography, M.Ed, MIEM
28 years ago, I got my first job teaching children. I loved working with kids, singing songs, playing games, doing art, learning, growing. I did not know at the time that taking care of children would become the theme of my life.
Over the years, I have been a mentor and teacher to thousands ... Views: 1121
Volunteerism isn’t just a noble act, it’s imperative to our national priorities -- or so says First Lady Michelle Obama. She rolled up her sleeves Monday and helped put the finishing touches on a play structure in the Bret Harte Elementary School playground in San Francisco, which has been ... Views: 1005
Walking through the green hills of Tennessee Valley bordered by the brash jubilant display of purple lupines and sweet shy hellos of delicate yellow wildflowers while connecting with Melinda, the founder of Women’s Earth Alliance and Amira her right hand assistant I circled back to that place of ... Views: 971
Dan Boyle’s Oscar-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire, set in the slums of Mumbai, skillfully portrays the conditions of Indian slums and, more importantly, has ignited public interest in the many children who inhabit these slums. In the film, Jamal, Salim and Latika (played by real slum children) ... Views: 1597
Susan Jeske is well-known as the first recipient of the Ms. America ® title and in her capacity as the current Ms. America ® Pageant President and for her various pageant-related associations for the last twenty years. She has a great professional profile as a pageant judge, having judged more ... Views: 1956
Perhaps you imagined that the people on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder would be pinching every last penny to make ends meet.
If so, you’re surprisingly wrong. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey, the poorer you are in the United States, the larger ... Views: 1247
"Poverty won’t allow him to lift up his head; dignity won’t allow him to bow it down."
--Madagasy Proverb
In meeting women in and around the markets of Kigali, we rarely found a business that employed more than one woman and maybe one or two of her youngsters. I wanted to know what it would ... Views: 2380
THE dissolution of the religious houses in Wales during the reign of
Henry VIII, and the dispersion of their libraries, led to many Welsh
manuscripts passing into the hands of private individuals. Collections
of Welsh manuscripts soon began to be formed by persons who took an
interest in the ... Views: 1366
“It’s more difficult to give away money that it is to earn it in the first place.” ~Andrew Carnegie
While his premise is arguable, Andrew Carnegie’s point is indisputable. He understood the power of planned giving.
Tax exempt organizations are the fastest growing sector in the United ... Views: 1489
I was contemplating the truth in something that I once told my wife... that the true value of a gift is determined by the one who receives it. Since that time I have come to believe that not only does the receiver determine the value of a gift, he or she decides if what was given - is even a ... Views: 1348
This week on Intent, we want to hear your tips, tricks and advice on volunteering. Yes, we know that much have been said about volunteering and giving back in light of President Obama's push for more Americans to serve. We also know that many volunteering resources already exist out there on the ... Views: 1005