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What Matters? September 5, 2023

International Day of Charity

I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend and is rested and ready to take on fall. Our Charity Matters team has been busy working hard for these past few weeks planning and interviewing an amazing lineup of incredible nonprofit heroes for Season Six of our podcast. We are so excited to share these inspirational conversations as we continue to be messengers of service and goodness.

Until then, I thought it was worth noting that today is the International Day of Charity. Yes, I hear you. It seems that everyday is something like that. True and I agree. There is a day dedicated to everything from the largest ball of string to every disease under the sun. I get it, sometimes it is really overwhelming. However, this day was created by the United Nations to honor Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

I thought I would use this opportunity to share a few interesting facts about the nonprofit sector in the United States from Philanthropy Roundtable. It is worth noting that why we love our global nonprofit partners, Charity Matters focuses on people helping people in the United States.

The nonprofit sector in the United States represents more than $470 billion in annual revenue. That is a lot of generosity!
Americans give seven times more than their European counterparts.
Six out of ten Americans or 60% of American households participate in some kind of giving.
Religious giving is lower today than it was during the Great Depression.
Eighty percent of charitable giving in the United States comes from individual donors.

Whether we are giving our time or our resources, we are making the world a better place one small act of kindness at a time. I think that is exactly how Mother Teresa would have wanted it.

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Charity Matters Inspiration October 12, 2016

Love is a decision.

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Have you ever heard a speaker who left you thinking? Really thinking? Two weeks ago, I attended an event down at USC that left me deep in thought. The talk was given by a local priest who had worked with Mother Teresa years ago in Calcutta, when he was on a year’s sabbatical. The Monsignor spoke about being lost and shared his journey of self discovery during his time in India serving the poor.

He spoke about feeling, ” so alive and on fire” about his time there and the work he was doing with the poor, the sick and the dying. This feeling had him, at times, contemplating staying permanently in India. The priest shared this idea with Mother Teresa, who told him to, “Go home.” The priest in turn told each of us,” that we must all find our own Calcutta and that love is a decision.”

Something to think about for sure…..

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Charity Matters Quotes February 9, 2015

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“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread”

Mother Teresa

As we begin this week of “love” I thought it fitting to focus not on romance and Valentine’s Day, but rather the pure gift of loving one another.

It seems so simple and yet, it is somehow the most difficult. A tiny moment of kindness goes a very long way.

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Charity Matters Quotes September 27, 2013

Charity Matters Quotes

“Remember, with each act of charity, you get closer to the person you want to be.”

Anonymous

There really is no image to fit this quote. Rather the question becomes, when you give of your self who do you want to be? Mother Teresa, Princess Di, the Dali Lama?

Or simply your best self?

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Charity Matters Quotes July 12, 2013

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“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”
Mother Teresa

In keeping with this weeks theme that “Charity starts at home,” I thought I would share a photo of our family a few years back, when we first moved into our house. This was the last time that we did serious home improvement. I hope this weekend finds you enjoying summer, wherever you maybe, I’ll be staying close to home.

Happy Friday Everyone!

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Charity Matters Quotes March 18, 2013

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“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

Mother Teresa

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Homelessness and Hunger November 30, 2012

What Matters?

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

Mother Teresa

We all get overwhelmed this time of year with donation request, causes, and so many people and places in need. We can not give to everything, we can not improve everything but we can make a difference in each gesture of love, kindness and compassion to another…..even if it is just one. It matters.

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Charity Matters Quotes April 2, 2012

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“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop”

Mother Teresa

Charity Matters and so does each act of goodness you do.

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