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Sande Smith — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:35:19 +0000

“People don’t think carrot cake is weird. So when I serve a parsnip cake, that’s not weird to me. It’s just one step to the side.”

- Marcus Samuelsson, New York Chef (Aquavit)

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Lanell Dike — Tue, 18 May 2010 05:30:43 +0000

“The forms that will animate philanthropy ten years from now don’t yet exist. In the meantime, we can agree not to fear, scorn, or ignore new technologies but to be open to learning about them, experimenting with them, and sharing the results.

We can reconsider assumptions built into our work over decades – assumptions that may no longer make sense….There are innumerable strategic and tactical approaches for us – as philanthropic institutions, as social-purpose organizations, and as individual donors – to consider in this moment of transition.”

- Disrupting Philanthropy by Lucy Bernholz, Edward Skloot and Barry Varela

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Lanell Dike — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:42:43 +0000

Stewardship: “the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one’s care.”

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Sande Smith — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:38:41 +0000

“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve, you don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.

You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Lanell Dike — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:12:41 +0000

” Do you know how to do nothing? Seeing cannot take place until you pause. Real creativity cannot occur as long as creative impulse is constantly sublimated into habitual activity. At this late stage of conditioning, doing nothing alone can allow transformation to happen. Yet doing nothing must be based on clarity of vision. Knowing how to pause, not just outwardly, but throughout your being is a consummate art of living. Knowing really how to pause is the action of intelligence itself. ”

- G. Bluestone from Enlightening, The Way of Enquiry

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Sande Smith — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:15:45 +0000

“What can I do that isn’t going to get done unless I do it, just because of who I am?”

- Buckminster Fuller

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Tuti Scott — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:00:50 +0000

“An organization looking for new people to join its nonprofit board of directors should consider people who are already engaged in the organization or community.”

- Molly Schar
(Read more at Suite101: How to Find Great Nonprofit Board Members.)

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Lanell Dike — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:24:10 +0000

“Once you start looking for the happy things, you don’t think about the bad ones as much.”

- Pollyanna

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Tuti Scott — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:09:14 +0000

“But tonight, here I am. And I feel — I feel that notwithstanding the past that my presence here is one additional bit of evidence that the American Dream need not forever be deferred.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community. We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present, unemployment, inflation, but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. We are attempting to fulfill our national purpose, to create and sustain a society in which all of us are equal.”

- from the 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address by Barbara Jordan

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Sande Smith — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:35:10 +0000

“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

~ Audre Lorde