"...If you don’t know what harbour you sail for, no wind is favourable. Because we live by chance, chance necessarily has great power over our lives..."In our series on uncertainty during small town capital campaigns, This week, I’m read...

"...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs......

Over the past two years, we've begun each week together with a meaningful reflection on the beautiful space where generosity occurs, paired with coaching questions designed to ground you for the week ahead.Starting next week, this po...

"...had bequeath to his executors for charitable purposes his personal clothing and nought else..."This week I am re-reading "The Ethics of giving:...

"...It is not the critic who counts..."This week, I am sharing a musical version of the Man in the Arena from ...

"We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous; we experience joy in the actual act of giving something; and we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given."This week, I’m reading 3 quotes from the Buddha.

"...It is only the spirit of giving that counts, and the very poor give without any self-consciousness..."This week, I’m reading from Random Reminiscences of ...

Fundraising work can feel isolating, with endless tasks pulling you in every direction. But what if you stepped back from the techniques and trends to discover something deeper?Welcome to Reflections on Generosity — a weekly five-min...

"...O let us live in joy, although having nothing! In joy let us live like spirits of light!.."This week, I’m reading a quote from the Dhammapada, written down in the 1...

"...We must not consider how great presents are, but in what spirit they are given..."This week, I am reading a story and quote from On Benefits by Seneca the Younger, published in 59 A...

"...We frequently make our gifts conditional on the giving of others, not because we wish to force people to do their duty, but because we wish in this way to root the institution in the affections of as many people as possible who, as contribu...

"...When we have decided to accept, let us accept with cheerfulness, showing pleasure, and letting the giver see it, so that he or she may at once receive some return for their goodness..."This week, I am reading a quote from

"...And joy is the appropriate attitude with which to help others because acts of generosity are a source of blessing to the giver as well as the receiver..."This week, I’m reading a quote from John Chrysostom from the 400 A.D.s.<...

"...All that happens, happens right: you will find it so if you observe narrowly..."This week, I am reading a quote from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, written aro...

..."See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.     For in truth it is life that gives unto life—while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness...."This week, I’m reading on...

"...Acknowledging that one does not know is a humble kind of ignorance, one that is, in fact, filled often with the joy of discovery and wonder at what is discovered..."This week, I’m reading a quote from

"...We cannot attempt to recount here the long story of all good causes which came to be recognized only after lonely pioneers had devoted their lives and fortunes to arousing the public conscience, of their long campaigns until at last they ga...

"...Two different roads are presented to us, equally leading to the attainment of this so much desired object; the one, by the study of wisdom and the practice of virtue; the other, by the acquisition of wealth and greatness..."This week...

"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”This week,...

"...Donor prospects are not objects; they are subjects, and like all of us, they want to contribute to something meaningful and life-giving and successful. Like us, they too search for meaning, have fears and hopes, desires and regrets, and bel...

"...Humble ignorance can imagine that it might be wrong and hopes that its community will correct it early enough to avoid harm.  It can marvel at what it sees that it cannot hope to understand or control...."This week, I’m reading ...

"...Let us, then, be up and doing,    With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing,    Learn to labor and to wait."This week, I'm reflecting on a poem,

"...There is a difference between quantity and fullness. You can have a lot of money and still be empty. There is no fullness in your heart...."This week, Pope Francis passed away.  In honor of his teaching on generosity, I am refle...

"... If donors are largely unaware of fluctuations in the grants received by charities, then reductions in fund-raising becomes a sensible explanation for crowding out..."This week, I came across a large scale research article from 2009 ...

..."It is the most beautiful, the most noble side of neighbourly love, wherein the word has fully become deed..."This week, I’m sharing quotes from The Untapped Power...