I Live Here, I Give Here

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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For organizations and people trying to combat issues like homelessness and hunger, affordable housing, teen pregnancy and many other topics on what is an endless list that could wrap around the world many times, this article is quite devastating. For those who are concerned but may not be directly involved

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You’d have to be hiding under a proverbial nonprofit rock not to have seen last week’s furor over the Susan G. Komen For the Cure organization’s decision to cut (and then restore) funding to Planned Parenthood.  Splashed all over Facebook, Twitter, the news, and the blogosphere are polarizing opinions about one agency’s decision to stop funding another agency’s programs.

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