by Dawn Franks | Feb 23, 2021 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Giving, Nonprofits
Unprecedented. Unparalleled. 100-year event. Words and phrases used to describe the plunging temperatures across Texas and the deep south as a polar vortex of arctic air settled in for more than a week. As temperatures plunge and power outages occur, our response...
by Dawn Franks | Feb 10, 2021 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Family, Giving, Millennials, Next Generation, Nonprofits
School-age memories are often etched into our psyche. For me, these memories are either clear and colorful or vague and foggy. One of the clear, colorful memories from elementary school came on February 14. Eleven years old, I was excited about the upcoming...
by Dawn Franks | Jan 27, 2021 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Giving, Nonprofits
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” That’s sage advice from one of the most popular children’s authors of all time, Dr. Seuss. This isn’t the first time I’ve started a blog with Dr. Seuss. But it seems his...
by Dawn Franks | Jan 12, 2021 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Giving, Nonprofits
A bowl of oatmeal with steam dancing above is just right in my opinion. Goldilocks would disagree and declare my bowl of oatmeal “too hot.” Like Goldilocks’ preference for baby bear’s “just right” porridge, donors have a just right style of giving. Because each of us...
by Dawn Franks | Dec 15, 2020 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Family, Giving
In the late sixties, my family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming. My brother and I arrived at our new school in the middle of an outbreak of strep throat, also known as streptococcus. The outbreak was severe. They began weekly throat cultures on every student and sending...
by Dawn Franks | Dec 3, 2020 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Giving, Nonprofits
Helpers come in all sizes and forms. It has been such an odd year. I can’t imagine what things might be like at the North Pole. What would Santa Claus do without his helpers, elves in green suits with pointy toes, to prepare for the all-important worldwide...
