
Reflections on Generosity
Kick off your week with a 5-minute reflection on generosity to ground yourself as you go about your fund development tasks. Each reflection includes a question to ponder throughout the week to aid your work.
Episodes
94 episodes
94: Strive for a Good Cause
"...There's only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive for a good cause."This week, I’m reflecting on his words from Summer Meditation...
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Episode 94
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5:30

93: Sincere Charity without Delay
"...Give charity without delay, for it stands in the way of calamity..."This week, I’m reflecting on several sayings of the Prophet Mohammad and ...
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Episode 93
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4:24

92: Execise of Virtue in the Face of Indecision
“...Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself...”This week, I’m reflected on the words of C...
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Episode 92
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4:42

91: (Nonprofits Have) A Power Conspicuous
"Thenceforth they are no longer isolated individuals, but a power conspicuous from the distance whose actions serve as an example; when it speaks, people listen...."This week, I’m reading selected quotes from
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Episode 91
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3:37

90: When All We Can Do Is Laugh
"....The Stage which was not for low Farce design'd,But to divert, instruct, and mend Mankind."This week, I’m reading from the play The Modern Husband by Henry Fielding, pub...
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Episode 90
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4:52

89: Generosity with Discernment
"...Where there is quiet and meditation, there is neither worry nor dissipation...."This week, I’m reflecting on Of the Virtues putting Vices to ...
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Episode 89
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4:05

88: Generosity in Ordinary Acts
"...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts;..."This week, I am reflecting a quote from George Eliot’s Middlemarch, published in 18...
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Episode 88
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4:01

87: Generosity in These Times
"...God blesses those people who make peace. They will be called his children!..."This week, I am reading the words of Jesus and His approach to opponents from Matthew 5 and 6.View the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon about
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Episode 87
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4:59

86: Never Wasted
"..No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”This week, I’m reading a story from Aesop’s Fables, titled the Lion and the Mouse as told sometime between 620 and 564 BC....
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Episode 86
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3:53

85: Contributions to Justice
"...How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straight away!..."This week, I’m reading from Give
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Episode 85
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4:10

84: Striving Valiantly for Generosity
"...It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong person stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better...."This week, I’m reading from
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Episode 84
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3:44

83: Waiting for Generosity
"...Patient living means to live actively in the present and wait there. Waiting, then, is not passive. It involves nurturing the moment.."This week, I am reflecting on selected quotes from Henri Nouwen from the The
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Episode 83
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3:28

82: To the Days of Generosity Ahead
As you know, this podcast highlights the transformative beauty of generosity. I will be taking a brief break until January 6, and in the meantime, I encourage you to reflect on the role of generosity within your own holiday traditions.A...
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Episode 82
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1:07

81: Planting Generosity for Others
"...Therefore one should not cease from planting. Rather, just as he found, one should still continue to plant even though he is old..."This week, I’m a story from
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Episode 81
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4:48

80: Luck of the Draw
"...In the same way, as you are unable to take care of all of your fellow people, treated as the luck of the draw when the time and circumstance brings some into closer contact with you than others." This week, I’m reading a quote ...
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Episode 80
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4:02

79: Generosity Repairs the World
“Whoever practices charity and justice fills the world with loving kindness.”This week, I’m reading quotes from Sukkah 49b about tzedakah.Reflection questions:<...
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Episode 79
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3:40

78: To Do Good
"...that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road..."This week, I am reading a quote from M...
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Episode 78
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3:40

77: Letting the Giver See
"...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
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Episode 77
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4:32

76: Accept Gifts with Cheerfulness
"...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
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Episode 76
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4:55

75: Generosity Begins with Us
"...A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed...."This week, I’m reading a quote from the Jewish wisdom on generosity from
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Episode 75
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3:50

74: Wisdom and Rest
"...For with wisdom cometh patience, And with patience cometh rest..."This week, I am reading the poem The Hardest Time of All, by Sarah Doudney. Written in 1896....
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Episode 74
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4:47

73: Generosity Builds Democracy
..."An association [nonprofit] is an educated and powerful body of citizens which cannot be twisted to any person's will or quietly trodden down,..." This week, I’m reading selected quotes from
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Episode 73
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4:35

72: Generosity or Transaction
"...the potentially world-changing and life-giving power that may be present in or working through the goodness of the donors' hearts and souls; if only someone would acknowledge it, call it forth, and nurture it!"This week, I am readin...
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Episode 72
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