What Is the Best Way to Give?

What Is the Best Way to Give?

Is it better to give a thousand dollars to one person, or one dollar to a thousand people? I still haven’t quite decided what my answer is. One the one hand, a thousand dollars has the potential to make a much greater impact on someone’s life than a single dollar. I...
Generosity is Always the Right Choice

Generosity is Always the Right Choice

Of all our core values, generosity is the one I most enjoy incorporating into work and life. Giving is fun. When I give, I can immediately notice the benefit I am bringing to the person receiving the gift. More than that, what I receive in return is often far more...
Giving Tuesday: How To Live It Year Round

Giving Tuesday: How To Live It Year Round

Today is Giving Tuesday, something that may be obvious from the stream of emails flooding your inbox soliciting donations. Giving Tuesday, explained on its website as “a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration,” is...
Living Our Core Values: Generosity

Living Our Core Values: Generosity

I feel a bit self conscious writing about generosity as a core value of my company. Part of being generous, in my belief, is humility. Generosity that boasts is self-serving and self-promotional. I want my giving to be quiet, heart-felt, and behind-the-scenes. I want...
Not a Shotgun Wedding

Not a Shotgun Wedding

Your agenda is a barrier to true connection. If you approach the use of social media tools with a clearly defined agenda and looming deadline for results, you’ll find yourself frustrated, invariably. The more urgent your need to get “something”  from...