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Donors and Their New Adventures in Giving, part II: Donors want to act, not react

I flew to Orange County last week to teach a Mission Increase workshop. Ended up sitting next to a guy who saw the book I was reading, which led to a conversation in which we discovered we both were involved … Continue reading

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Donors and Their New Adventures in Giving, part I

It seems like daily I’m running across blog posts, articles, and books that tell stories about ordinary people committing to give to charity in unusual ways. George Crankovic turned me on to the story of Toby Ord, the philosophy prof … Continue reading

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Philanthropy: more than dollars and often less than big dollars

As a Christian development guy, one of my regular regrets and deepest pains is that Christian nonprofits are so intimated by immediate concerns of institutional insolvency that they rarely take the time to seriously consider–and implement, on the courage of … Continue reading

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