you are hungry for news you can trust, journalism that helps you make decisions about your community, reporting that holds power to account, then this is for you. This is my personal advice for people who want to support journalism that matters. It is just a starting point, it is not comprehensive, and it’ll become stronger and more useful if you add your ideas to it. Use the comments to add your list of newsrooms you subscribe to and support. Now more than ever, it is important to our democracy that we seek out and support good journalism. Every person is going to construct their media diet differently, so any list I create will be incomplete. My goal here is to provide a framew... posted on Feb 6 2017 (20,598 reads)

lessons that I know will never leave me no matter where my letters go."  In another story, a mother taught a powerful lesson to her children about loving her enemies: her compassionate response to a band of young neighborhood pranksters, reminds us of how powerful and important it is to keep taking small steps towards loving those who challenge us. When we love those whom we do not even know or those who may never return our love, we learn something about the generosity and depth of our own hearts. *** Could there be more to love than we think? Consider how these kids define love.  How do you define love? What can you do to bring ... posted on Feb 14 2017 (16,554 reads)

who cultivates flowers, but a person who cultivates the soil." In business this has translated for me into the importance of developing agreements and partnerships where vision and values, purpose and intent are explicitly articulated, considered and aligned among all stakeholders of an enterprise - customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders, and the broader community and natural environment. The garden has taught me about patience and persistence and the ethical principles of generosity and reciprocity. It has illuminated the importance of appreciating the cycles of life and decay. For the gardener, composting is a transformative act - whereby last season's clippings (... posted on Apr 26 2017 (12,296 reads)

your own wisdom and support the collective wisdom. Preeta: That's so fantastic. I love everything you said, especially starting with the notion that we have everything we need within us and it's just a matter of tapping into it. You said at the start, the true self in everyone is good, wise and powerful. Kay: And once we know that, we can relax and we don't need to control others and lots of good things fall from that. ***** Join this Saturday's Awakin Call with generosity entrepreneur Joserra Gonzalez. RSVP and learn more here. ... posted on May 17 2017 (22,167 reads)

When people think I’m joking, I remind them of a simple truth: the more often you get your voice “out there,” even in a venue as small as a fifteen-student course on Thomas Merton, the more likely it is that dumb luck will strike. Be Jennie or Johnny Appleseed, scattering your words hither and yon, and a few may fall on fertile ground. But here’s the deal: this often means giving your work away free for nuthin’. In addition to being its own reward, this kind of generosity maximizes the chance of dumb luck by giving you more exposure than you get by trying to monetize everything. (And if you want to be respected as a writer, never, ever use words like “... posted on May 9 2017 (13,828 reads)

I felt a tipping point in my heart. There was an internal push and desire to share a message of love and respect for women, through this song and video. The creative concept of the film was generated based on three constraints. We wanted to: 1) Show a celebration of love and respect for women  2) Tell the daily stories of women and 3) Do it all within a low budget.  These three aspects aligned in the idea of holding an art exhibition where the strength, courage and generosity of women of all generations could be displayed through art, making it festive -- by inviting the community to come and celebrate those paintings, and using post-production tricks to dive in... posted on May 14 2017 (13,793 reads)

modeling, showing other people that they matter. And I think that that’s such an important skill that probably we could all do a better job at teaching as parents. Ms. Tippett: Adam, I’m also curious about the connection of this kind of collection of things we’re talking about, resilience, adversity, and to your work on giving and originality. As you’ve lived this in friendship with Sheryl, and in your research, how does resilience flow into those things — generosity, originality, creativity? Mr. Grant: It’s really been at the heart of a lot of my work. I spent a lot of my career studying why givers burn out, what happens when generous people e... posted on Jun 17 2017 (17,888 reads)

the ego, and a surrendering to something greater than oneself—whether that’s defined in terms of the ‘divine,’ or unconditional love, or artistic ecstasy, where even the plum tree outside your study window shimmers with meaning, grace and beauty. When our decision making is dominated by fear, jealousy, greed and other limitations of the ego, the economic and political systems we create will feed from and reproduce those qualities. By contrast, the ultimate security and generosity that flow from spiritual experience can anchor systems based on sharing and equality like nothing else. Of course, kindness, joy, love and liberation don’t unlock the doors of stru... posted on Jul 12 2017 (11,107 reads)

of love is fluff. That’s an unconscious prejudice that many bring to their volunteer work. In ServiceSpace, we flip that.  After almost two decades of cultivating that flip, we have seen that you can sustainably build institutional capacity with non-financial forms of capital. This, of course, is not to negate the power of money. ServiceSpace also uses it. For instance, David Brooks mentions "a slush fund", which I think is great idea for something like ‘generosity entrepreneurs’. But it has to stay in proportion, and subordinate, to other forms of capital.  Our creative constraint has been to not fundraise.  That invites us to tr... posted on Jul 28 2017 (10,164 reads)

but appointed? A Nonviolent Generation With Many Perspectives Paraphrasing Gandhi: to overcome the greatest destructive weapon humans have invented, one needs the greatest power humankind has been endowed with: nonviolence. Just as peace is more than the absence of war, nonviolence is more than the absence of violence. It is not simply the negation to cause harm, but it is something infinitely more: it is when one’s heart is so full of love, so full of courage, forgiveness, generosity, kindness and compassion, that there is no room for hatred, resentment and violence. It is not a double negative but a superlative positive. Nonviolence it is a call to disobey inhumane law... posted on Jul 10 2017 (6,653 reads)

by Frank McKenna We long to find more joy in our daily pursuits even though life has taught us it’s not so easy. New discoveries in neuroscience offer insight into how we can develop a brighter state of heart and mind. The First Step on the path to finding happiness is to open the mind to alternative ways of thinking about life. While much of our focus in the West has been toward comfort and the acquisition of worldly goods, in Eastern countries your status as a human being traditionally comes first. So instead of being greeted by “What are you up to these days?” or “How’s it going with your to-do list?” you may be asked in Muslim cou... posted on Aug 29 2017 (20,356 reads)

a piece with no color,” Joyce said. “Most of us who knew her thought it as a letting go of her life. I think she related to colors in the way all of us do. But who knows? We could not ask.”  This question is interwoven throughout Joyce’s book, repeated again and again in distinct yet familiar forms. Who was Judith Scott? Without words, can we ever know? How can a person who faced unknowable pain alone and in silence, respond only, unimaginably, with generosity, creativity and love? “Judy is a secret and who I am is a secret, even to myself,” Joyce writes.  Scott’s sculptures, themselves, are secrets, impenetrable heaps w... posted on Sep 21 2017 (12,006 reads)

fees for my children’s education, subconsciously, I am telling myself that I am done — the school now has to do its job. I had to catch and correct my own transactional thinking every time community events required my participation. What truly inspired me though was the metric this school used in its annual fund-raisers. The school uses tuition fees to pay the salaries of the teachers. However, that isn’t enough for the functioning of the school — it relies on the generosity of the families who send their children here to raise its operating budget. People of greatly different backgrounds attend this school, and it is quite easy to pay much more attention to th... posted on Oct 17 2017 (14,937 reads)

for us. It’s a huge subject and so complex. The Prime Minister of Australia once turned to the Aborigines in Parliament and said to them "I'm sorry what we have done in Australia to your people." I just so badly would like to see Netanyahu do the same to the Palestinians. I guess I'll wait a while before he can deliver that speech. Shiv: How we can support you and your work? Yoav: I have to thank you as this has been a wonderful opportunity, and I appreciate your generosity.  I always tell people to do a Sulha in your town. Anyone can locate five Muslims or Palestinians, the Jews are always available, and the Christians are interested as well. Put togethe... posted on Sep 18 2017 (8,421 reads)

door, yet Bob welcomed us like old friends. He spent more than an hour detailing his philosophy and how he came to live out of this aging steel box for the better part of a decade. In short, he believes that sending out positive thoughts and actions literally changes the world around us. One need not look far for proof that this world can use all the positivity it can get. Through his talks to various groups, and students in particular, he stresses the tremendous impact that empathy and generosity can have on both the giver and receiver. While a million deeds takes a lifetime to finish, they include spiritual as well as physical acts. Just as important as holding a door or offering a... posted on Sep 29 2017 (14,116 reads)

the resources that you mentioned to all the people on this call. Before I close with a minute of gratitude, I wanted to say that it felt like speaking with you I wasn't just speaking with you. I felt like the spirit of all the people that you helped transition, all the care workers that you worked with, your wife who prompted you to write the book and get these messages out in the world was with us. Thank you for bringing them all into this conversation and enriching our lives through your generosity Frank.  Frank:  They're my true teachers. ... posted on Jan 26 2018 (31,986 reads)

cloth bag he always carried when we took a walk. It might sound self-centered, but during one of our summer wrap-ups, I asked him, “Hey, can I have one of those bags?”      “Sure," he said, "You can have this one," an old bag made of denim.      And I still have it, all beaten up. His father was a clothier and so he knew about the value of clothes. But a lot of what he had was given to him. Basically, he lived on people’s generosity. I might see him wearing a pair of bright blue Alaskan canner pants and a Chinese-looking hat with tassel cords. He favored things that were rough-cut and spoke of life-immersion. RW: &n... posted on Nov 17 2017 (14,476 reads)

sure more than even I’m aware of. I was not a religious person. I don’t think I’ve ever been, actually. I was born and grew up in New Orleans and was living a very fast life at the age of eleven, twelve and thirteen. I mean it was so intense I felt that it was almost over with at that point. But I was being taught by Christian Brothers and I noticed how generous and joyful they were and I got inspired, like many young adolescents, by the adults in my life. There was a generosity and kind of an otherworldliness that was almost childlike, which was very attractive to me. So I wanted to be like them. And they said, well, we’re looking for vocations, and you can ... posted on Oct 25 2017 (11,613 reads)

what are a few of the things that those people all seem to share? Dan: One of them would be curiosity.  They follow their noses, they remain interested in stuff, even if they know a lot of stuff—especially if they know a lot of stuff.  One of the consequences of knowing a lot of stuff is you realize how little you know, and so, there’s a lot more to be curious about. The second thing is that, not uniformly, but in many, many cases, there’s an element of generosity to these folks that might surprise you. They’re willing to help other people out, they’re not people who pull up the ladder once they get on the top. And the third thing is t... posted on Dec 19 2017 (10,924 reads)

without judgment because if you have any tone of voice or nonverbals that indicate judgment, you’re going to crash and burn. If you can validate others just by seeking to understand the human being in front of you, you’re building that affiliation and demonstrating that value. Knowledge@Wharton: The final one, which seems very simple, is to be generous. Dreeke: There are lots of ways to be generous, and the key is to understand how the other person wishes you to demonstrate generosity. [Many] people just want your time, so be generous with your time. Everyone has different resources. Understand what your resources are and be generous with those resources for other people... posted on Feb 5 2018 (12,723 reads)