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What Kind of Question is That?

How much is enough?  "What kind of question is that?" we might respond. “You can never have enough.” There’s never enough money to cover every potential financial disaster. There’s never enough stuff to make us feel loved and whole. “The notion that we will never have enough is part of the dysfunctional story of modern technological, capitalist society that we have internalized,” said   [Read More …]

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YOU WANT TO GIVE AWAY WHAT ! ! !

It didn’t matter how many times I ran the numbers, it just didn’t pencil out. There was no way we could sell our commercial building and make a good profit on it.   Why not? Well, this story will make more sense if I begin at the beginning. When my husband Dave was a graduate student he built his own research equipment to save money. As a college professor he used some of that equipment in his   [Read More …]

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SACRIFICIAL GIVING – WITHOUT MAKING A SACRIFICE

How can one make a large charitable donation in such a way that it brings about the most good? For several years I worked for a national non-profit in a position that allowed me to see how local chapters used large windfall donations. While some were good stewards of their unexpected funds and used them wisely to serve a greater number of families in need, others did not. I began to wonder how   [Read More …]

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Our Most Important Task?

We all have our passions. Thank God for that. The embers of social change smolder, kindled by such passion. Periodically the embers explode, spreading like wildfire, fueled by that same passion. What is our passion, our most important task? How would you answer that question? Bringing economics home  I would say that task is to once again nestle our economic system within Earth’s cycles,   [Read More …]

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KID PHILANTHROPISTS

Mollie Glover didn’t get any presents for her 10th and 11th birthdays and she didn’t want any. That’s because she asked her mom and the friends who come to her parties to help her raise $250 a year to send a Guatemalan student to junior high school instead. Kimberley is Mollie’s student, the one she committed to support for 3 years so Kimberley would have a better chance to escape a life of   [Read More …]

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Excuse Me, But Do You Have Any Coins?

By Judy Osgood Because giving has meant so much to my husband and me, I have collected stories about it over the years. Many are stories of spontaneous sharing, like an airport shuttle story in my collection. The passengers had boarded and the driver started down the aisle collecting fees before the trip began. While that’s the normal procedure, there was a problem that time. A woman with a   [Read More …]

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A Hard-Won Understanding of Credit Cards

While my husband, David, and I discuss all our financial decisions these days and have learned to respect each other’s viewpoints on spending, it hasn’t always been that way. I still vividly remember being furious with him years ago when he said no to getting a credit card. My argument was that we needed a washer and dryer so I didn’t have to gather up our dirty clothes, load the kids in the car   [Read More …]

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How Not To Give . . . a Too-Late Primer for My Stepfather

I wish I had known how to help my stepfather be an effective donor, but he was beyond listening to reason by the time he married my mother. So while I couldn’t change his giving patterns, perhaps sharing his most ineffective habit in print will help others who are feeling overwhelmed by donation requests. Lyle could not, not respond to every plea for funds he received in the mail. Bogus or   [Read More …]

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The Bucket List

By Judy Osgood Before The Bucket List movie was made, I read an article written by a man who thought he was going to die in a plane crash. That wasn’t an irrational fear on his part. He was on a commercial flight that experienced serious mechanical problems. While the flight crew prepared the passengers for a potential crash landing, he found himself thinking about the things he wanted to do   [Read More …]

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The Prison of Privilege

The story of Moses and the burning bush is a prelude to the exodus, the dramatic delivery of the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt. It is the central salvation story of Hebrew scripture, remembered in the Jewish Seder service. It is a powerful image, not just in Hollywood film, but in the human journey. The exodus was a vital image of hope for African Americans from the time of slavery to Martin   [Read More …]

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