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What Could Bold Money Do For Your Cause?

Bob Rogers by Jim Lord

This 3-minute video interview with Bob Rogers, philanthropist and former Chairman of the Kauffman Foundation and Americorps, shows how a bold leadership gift, shaped for the maximum influence, will lift your cause to a level that has seemed impossible.

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Changing Lives in Nepal

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This week I have the privilege of spending time with Sahadev Mahat, who’s doing extraordinary work all over his home country of Nepal. Here’s a glimpse into just one aspect of his influence on others.

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How Do We Break Through the Noise?

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Especially in “turbulent” times like this, it’s so easy to let the default tapes — about needs, problems, lacks, limits — start running in our heads … sabotaging our ability to inspire people, attract support, and keep moving forward on the good things we want to do. Take a quick 3-minute break to hear how one of your colleagues has broken through that noise — and reset his aspirations to a higher level than he’d ever thought possible.

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What’s the Key to Launching a Project That’s Bigger Than You Ever Thought Possible?

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Here’s a rare chance to go “behind the scenes” with one of the leaders of the largest private land conservation project in U.S. history. Whatever social cause you’re devoted to, and whatever the scale at which you work, you’ll come away inspired to reach for new heights — and with tangible strategies for getting there.

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Do You Start With “Feasibility” … or With Who You Are and What You Want?

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Southridge School, an independent school near Vancouver, B.C., was founded without a big gift, without a wealthy patron, without a feasibility study. “If we’d begun by analyzing the ‘feasibility’ of founding a new school, we probably would’ve stopped dead in our tracks,” says Debbie MacDougall, one of the school’s founders.

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