Comments on: How Should We Give? http://aliyamarketing.com/marketingandfundraisingideas/how-should-we-give/ Fundraising, Fundraising Ideas, and Not-for-profit Marketing Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:30:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: arnie draiman http://aliyamarketing.com/marketingandfundraisingideas/how-should-we-give/#comment-190 arnie draiman Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:14:36 +0000 http://aliyamarketing.com/marketingandfundraisingideas/how-should-we-give/#comment-190 yasher koach! well done! i totally agree and thanks for deliniating this. it is so important to be sure that the places where you give your money are reputable, honest, and spending your tzedakah money efficiently and effectively! arnie draiman philanthropic consultant www.draimanconsulting.com yasher koach! well done! i totally agree and thanks for deliniating this. it is so important to be sure that the places where you give your money are reputable, honest, and spending your tzedakah money efficiently and effectively!

arnie draiman
philanthropic consultant
www.draimanconsulting.com

]]> By: JHS http://aliyamarketing.com/marketingandfundraisingideas/how-should-we-give/#comment-193 JHS Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:34:59 +0000 http://aliyamarketing.com/marketingandfundraisingideas/how-should-we-give/#comment-193 I vote for dropping them off at the shelter and letting the employees there distribute them to the guests who are in need. I guess that sort of meets the criteria for the third level. You can trust the shelter workers to be good stewards of your gift, assuring that the socks warm the feet of truly needy folks. I find the concept of levels of giving quite interesting as this is not really discussed in the context of Christianity in the same way. We are taught as children to give in any way needed and possible -- for instance, Jesus talked about the widow who put a few coins in the temple offering but noted that she gave more generously than the wealthy who had plenty to spare and gave more. The widow was singled out by him because she gave all that she had. In other words, she would feel the sacrifice in ways that the wealthy would not, thereby elevating her gift's significance, but it wasn't discussed in the same "level" format that you have described here. Thanks for participating in the Christmas Edition of the Carnival of Family Life! The Carnival will go live at midnight (Pacific time) on December 24, 2007, at <a href="http://www.jhsiess.com" rel="nofollow">Colloquium</a>! I vote for dropping them off at the shelter and letting the employees there distribute them to the guests who are in need. I guess that sort of meets the criteria for the third level. You can trust the shelter workers to be good stewards of your gift, assuring that the socks warm the feet of truly needy folks.

I find the concept of levels of giving quite interesting as this is not really discussed in the context of Christianity in the same way. We are taught as children to give in any way needed and possible — for instance, Jesus talked about the widow who put a few coins in the temple offering but noted that she gave more generously than the wealthy who had plenty to spare and gave more. The widow was singled out by him because she gave all that she had. In other words, she would feel the sacrifice in ways that the wealthy would not, thereby elevating her gift’s significance, but it wasn’t discussed in the same “level” format that you have described here.

Thanks for participating in the Christmas Edition of the Carnival of Family Life! The Carnival will go live at midnight (Pacific time) on December 24, 2007, at Colloquium!

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]]> By: Beth Kanter http://aliyamarketing.com/marketingandfundraisingideas/how-should-we-give/#comment-217 Beth Kanter Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:01:42 +0000 http://aliyamarketing.com/marketingandfundraisingideas/how-should-we-give/#comment-217 First, thanks for putting my blog in your side bar and I'm too late to influence your decison about the socks. Nonetheless, I appreciate this nuance to giving patterns and gives me something to think about. Somehow there is an application to capacity building in developing countries .. nice to discover your blog First, thanks for putting my blog in your side bar and I’m too late to influence your decison about the socks. Nonetheless, I appreciate this nuance to giving patterns and gives me something to think about. Somehow there is an application to capacity building in developing countries ..
nice to discover your blog

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