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 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? Reflection on Quote:A part of any campaign is the waiting. We wait for a donor to join us in that beautiful space called generosity. In that space is both the donor and us, you and I. If we are asking donors to be generous, what should we doing? As we wait for donors to join us in that beautiful space of generosity, our hearts must be transformed by generosity as well. As a consultant, my work has been to teach nonprofits on how to encourage generosity from their donors. Several years back, I had an epiphany. I was asking others to be generous - even sacrificially generous, yet I had never stopped to reflect on my own generosity. Now, it happened to be around tax time, so I took a look at past tax returns and…