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Friday 7 March 2014

The Transformative Power of Generosity

Here's a moving story that demonstrates the power of generosity. As you'll see in this video, generosity is a powerful motivator as well as a transformative agent of change. I was especially moved when the narrator says "The people realized they needed to create wealth in order to allow for tangible generosity." Here is a community that started from scratch with absolutely no money. They first asked "How can the people from the West help us?." However, Hanington inspired his people to ask a different question. "How soon can my people rise to the challenge of funding, not only their immediate needs, but their futures as well?" And so it began...




http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=59AKlDNSGtY
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  • What do you think?
  • Have you seen this happen in any of the places where you work?
  • What lessons can we take from their experience?

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