Reflections on Generosity

Dec 02 2024 78 ep. 4 mins 3
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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.

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79: Generosity Repairs the World

Dec 02 2024 3 mins  
“Whoever practices charity and justice fills the world with loving kindness.”This week, I’m reading quotes from Sukkah 49b about tzedakah.Reflection questions:How are we giving donors that vision of repairing the world through their gifts?What are ways that we can practice tzedakah with donors? That is, practicing justice, peace, and loving kindness with donors instead of jus

78: To Do Good

Nov 25 2024 3 mins  
"...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 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, written around 171 AD.Reflection questions:Is there a response from a donor that you need to stop giving too much weight to and instead put it in its proper place, thank the donor, and

77: Letting the Giver See

Nov 18 2024 4 mins  
"...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 On Benefits by Seneca the Younger, published in 59 AD.Reflection Question:What is one thing you can do this week to let your donors know that you see their gi

76: Accept Gifts with Cheerfulness

Nov 11 2024 4 mins  
"...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 On Benefits by Seneca the Younger, published in 59 AD.Reflection Question:No matter the donor or the donor’s motivation, how are you and I receiving gifts?

75: Generosity Begins with Us

Nov 04 2024 3 mins  
"...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 Proverbs 11.Reflection questions:As you wait for donors to respond to a campaign, have you given to the mission you serve?How are you leading this week in your daily life with the intention of generosity in your own life?Refle

74: Wisdom and Rest

Oct 28 2024 4 mins  
"...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.Reflection Questions:Where are you waiting for some major change to occur as a result of your work? Is it time to gain more wisdom or to be more patient or to stop and rest in that area?Will you take the time to document y

73: Generosity Builds Democracy

Oct 21 2024 4 mins  
..."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 Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville, published in 1835. Note. His use of the word association is our current word for nonprofit.Reflection questions:Are you getting caught up how

72: Generosity or Transaction

Oct 14 2024 3 mins  
"...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 reading a quote from Growing Givers’ Hearts: Treating Fundraising as Ministry by Thomas Jeavons and Rebekah Burch Basinger. 2000 edition.Reflection ques

71: Generosity Covers Failure

Oct 07 2024 3 mins  
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.” JK RowlingThis week, I’m reading various quotes to reflect on how generosity covers our failures.Reflection question:Are we letting failure harden or shame us? Or, are we letting generosity cover our failures

70: Generosity in Failure

Sep 30 2024 4 mins  
"...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 around 171 AD.Reflection questions:When you have failed in your work recently, how are observing narrowly for the right things that came out of it?Are you seeking perfection or goodness in your fundraising activities?Reflec