by Dawn Franks | Jun 6, 2018 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Family, Giving
The recent three-day weekend afforded extra time for my gardening habit, what I call the green monster in my yard. It takes a lot of my free time and is the source of both pleasure and pain. Recently, I experienced some of the pain while trimming bushes. Close by is a...
by Dawn Franks | May 14, 2018 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Family, Giving, Millennials, Next Generation, Nonprofits
Join us for a fun event. Help us honor or remember. Please help feed, educate, clothe – you know the drill. These are the messages that jump off the pages and invitations in your mailbox every day. The pleas are real, the invitation to the fun is real, just like the...
by Dawn Franks | Mar 20, 2018 | Dawn's Blogs, Family, Giving, Millennials, Next Generation, Philanthropy in Action
Tiny stacks of 35-millimeter slides covered the dining room table. One by one I passed them through the slide viewer. The story of my parents’ earliest years together unfolded from Okinawa to North Carolina to Colorado and Texas. Pictures are only part of the story. ...
by Dawn Franks | Feb 21, 2018 | Dawn's Blogs, Family, Giving, Millennials, Next Generation, Philanthropy in Action
If you could invent one thing to make the world a better place, what would it be? That’s the question we put to eleven-year-old Jack during the game Phil and His Family’s Adventures in Giving. Joined by his thirteen-year-old brother and another friend of the same age,...
by Dawn Franks | Dec 13, 2017 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Family, Giving, Next Generation
Peeping through a keyhole on Christmas morning I could see the packages and toys Santa brought. All under the age of ten, we four made up the grandkid clan taking turns looking through that keyhole while my grandmother took her sweet time cooking breakfast. My sweet...
by Dawn Franks | Nov 15, 2017 | Dawn's Blogs, Family, Giving
My weekend was spent with a family, two generations. Gathered together for an annual giving meeting they aimed to work through a sizeable list of giving requests and agree on how much to give. The second generation had come from various states to join their parents in...
