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What are you hoping for?

November 24th, 2006

With the Thanksgiving Day weekend nearly over, I’m beginning in earnest to look ahead to 2007. This is not my typical pattern, but this has been an unusually challenging year.

Anyway, my own anticipation for a happy 2007 made me curious to learn what all of you are hoping for in the year ahead. I hope you will share your thoughts here. FYI-I’m less interested in fleeting resolutions, than I am in your more concrete intentions or plans.

I look forward to your comments. (BTW, please don’t hesitate to make your posts using the audio comment tool below.)

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1. Cathy Brown | November 27th, 2006 at 9:07 pm

I have been thinking about Jeff’s question a lot this weekend as it relates to my organization as well as other philanthropic organizations. As a public charity, we hope for two things and perhaps like many other charities, our first hope would be “to be put out of business”.

Now, I am sure you agree that is odd— but in the case of the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation, wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were no longer 1500 children a day dying from AIDS or 1400 infants being borne each day with HIV?

For that to occur, we need a vaccine and of course, we are not close to one. And even then, we would still have 13 million orphans to care for—- until they were all leading happy and healthy lives.

So, that is where the second hope comes in—- that individuals and societies as a whole will continue to help one another. In 2005, giving and volunteering was up. Individuals were very “attuned” to looking beyond themselves and toward the greater good—

We in the association world are good at this— let us set the example!

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