Tag Archives: Giving

What’s Your Framework for Giving? Miscellaneous Charitable Giving (Part III)

In part I of this series, we looked at ways to include volunteering as part of your personal framework for giving.  In part II we took a stab at intentionally including monetary donations in the giving framework.  Today we’ll consider some other ways to incorporate giving into our daily lives in non-traditional ways. Gifts – [...]

What’s Your Framework for Giving? Being Intentional With Your Money (Part II)

This is the second in a series of three posts about establishing a framework for giving.  In the first post, we talked about establishing areas of focus and things to consider in volunteer opportunities. Today we’ll look at cold, hard cash.  I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel like I’m getting nickled and [...]

What’s Your Personal Framework for Giving?

**When I sat down to write about this topic, I thought this would be a quick little post.  It turns out this stuff is more complicated than I anticipated so I’m breaking it into a series of 3 separate posts.  The final post will have a little geeky gift from me to you.** Every time [...]

Best Cause-Related Tweets, Stories and Finds This Week

From Joe Waters’ take on philanthropy to Panera Bread to a few new blogger friends in the cause and philanthropy realm, this week was chock full.

The Art of Philanthropy:  The Hello Foundation

The Art of Philanthropy: The Hello Foundation

What I love about The Hello Foundation is not what they do (though it’s important). It’s not even how they do it (though that’s pretty impressive). It’s why they do it.

Imagine you had a child with special needs. Perhaps autism. One of your primary struggles as a parent would be connecting and communicating with your child.

You need someone to inherently “get” this. Someone you trust fully to know your struggle and provide tools and direction to help you through your daily ups and downs. Someone to reassure you that you’re doing the right thing, to stick with it, someone who cares deeply about you and your child.