I Live Here, I Give Here

This week’s Wine Down Wednesday was a blast. I Live Here, I Give Here was on the scene as usual with yet another great Austin nonprofit organization, ACE: A Community for Education, being featured at the event.

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Austin is already known for many things: generosity, music, The Longhorns and 6th Street...just to name a few. However, after living here for about four months, I have discovered something else that should be added to that list of “Austin wonderfuls”

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I will never forget when His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was at the University of Arkansas last spring, a few hours away from my home, to speak to the community. I wanted to go so bad, and this article just confirms that I really missed an amazing, refreshing speech.

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Seven years: too long to keep certain items in your fridge but just long enough to take huge community strides. Therefore I say, ONLY seven years after the most devastating hurricane in my time New Orleans, LA residents have found a way to not just pull themselves up but to also find their way back to philanthropy and give back to the residents of the city.

Remember back to 2005. Those horrific videos we saw of people fighting each other and for their lives. Swimming, climbing, starving, losing loved ones and starting over from nothing are just some of the things those people endured in that year. All of the uncertainty about their future was ONLY seven years ago.

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This article is sad in so many ways. I know many of us look forward to spring because of baseball, Memorial Day, pools beginning to open, gardening and the great weather. But what if spring was just another season in a calm stream of the “same ole thing?”

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With the ability to contact law enforcement, government agencies and other public assistance programs via an unlimited number of ways, how is this article even possible? That alone covers hundreds of thousands of contacts to report abuse to. Is child abuse not being taken seriously?

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I am sure by now that most children, parents and other relatives from the family tree have experienced that moment when you are asked or have had to ask someone how to use an iPhone or a hip, new feature/program on the computer or even a laptop itself.

These technologies we have in the 21st century are so much more than enjoyable social utensils and coming of teenage status entitlements that you think your parents owe you.

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American Philanthropist John Rockefeller once said, “I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.” If that is truly the case, then for the past week and a half Austin has paid its dues and some!

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Being very interested in Higher Education and Student Affairs, it will not be too surprising to know that I follow a blog about it! The Student Affairs Collaborative recently published a post entitled Slicing Your Work-Life Pie. After reading this, I took the time out to thoroughly examine the pie slices within my own life circle.

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You may have read The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Bloomberg Businessweek, or saw the America’s Top Charitable Donors slideshow. Even if you happened not to get around to any of these, there is no stretch of sand deep enough to bury one’s head in to not know that Americans love BIG Givers! Honored in 2011 for their generosity in 2010 included philantropists such as Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Bloomberg, George Soros and David Rockefeller, just to name a few, but what about those who don’t necessarily donate over $1 million.

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