by Fred Smith | Dec 5, 2013 | Giving, Guest Blogs
As a percentage of all charitable giving in the United States ($316 billion), the religious sector continues to collect the lion’s share – 36 percent. While that is considerably less than the 50 percent of religious giving represented 10 years ago, it is...
by Fred Smith | Nov 14, 2013 | Guest Blogs
The Velvet Revolution, or Gentle Revolution, was a non-violent, student-led revolution in Czechoslovakia that took place from November 17 to December 29, 1989. Dominated by student and other popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist...
by Fred Smith | Oct 17, 2013 | Guest Blogs
In 1931, Judge Sam Lindsey donated a plot of land on South Broadway to the Tyler Women’s Forum for their new building – the Tyler Woman’s Building – with the stipulation that the building be completed within one year. That was quite a challenge...
by Fred Smith | Sep 9, 2013 | Guest Blogs
Like most of the people reading this, I have more than enough meetings. So, when someone calls and says they want to get together, I have learned to ask a few questions ahead of time. I should have asked more questions about my meeting this week with Steve Smith. I...
by Fred Smith | Aug 7, 2013 | About Your Philanthropy, Family, Guest Blogs, Next Generation, Wealth
My family moved to Tyler in 1984, and I almost immediately began teaching a Bible study that had been going for 20 years. The couples had begun as young parents and kept meeting weekly through all the stages of raising children and seeing them go off – and then...
