Tag: giving
Are You Sitting Behind the Roadblock, or Finding an Alternate Route?
Giving to others seems easy, right? You collect stuff, get donations and then just give it to people who need it. Done. Right? Unfortunately, it’s really not that easy. When you start an effort like The Monkey Do Project, there’s a lot of planning that goes into it. You call people who don’t return calls, You more »
Teaching the Meaning of Giving | A Christmas Spirit Story
We do our best to teach our 3 year old about giving. Around the Christmas season is the perfect time to do this. We give at the Salvation Army “Red Kettles” and each time she puts money in I remind her why we are giving it and how they use it for families who are more »
Everyday Warrior Supports Soldiers with Spotlight, Asks for Posts
I generally reserve the “GiveBackIn” section for nonprofit businesses or organizations that are doing really great things to help others. On occasion, though, an individual comes along with a cool idea that I think is worth sharing. Betsy Moats from the blog “Everyday Warrior” is one of those people. Betsy generally does a “Saturday Soundoff” more »
Helping Others | Follow Your Gut
Have you ever met someone, or even just observed someone, who you know needed help but you didn’t do anything? I have and those times still haunt me. I once saw a man punch a woman in the face in the car in front of me at a stop light. I was in such more »
True giving
Like so many, we are also tight on money right now. For this reason, I gave thoughtful consideration and planned carefully for Christmas gifts this year. I saved. I worked. I took on writing jobs and business dealings that spread me thin working into the night, and then I took on more work. I knew what I more »
Hero Kids Are Role Models for All of Us
Sometimes, it takes a kid’s perspective to make you realize that you need to do better in this world. One such perspective came from 11 year old MaryMargaret who, along with her father Gabe, created Kids Are Heroes–a website dedicated to bringing together children who can make a difference. “I created this site (with some help from my dad) because we thought more »
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