Giving Back to Your Community

Social Entrepreneurship has become my new PASSION! Well I guess it really is not new for me.

I like to think of it as giving back to your community through offering your skills, talents and experiences.

Let me share with you a personal example.

I was asked to share my skills and talents of Public Realations (I know you think I have misspelled it but as you read this I think you will see why I did it) with an Atlanta based organization called The Achor Center, which was a center for homeless women and their children. Now this was not your typical shelter setup. Instead it was a place where these women could learn new skills and their children could attend daycare right on the premises, which was an abandoned old church.

I liked what I saw and went to work on a pro-bono (free) basis offering my Public Realations talents for Achor. I was able to help in a pretty remarkable way that took advantage of my years of building up REAL relationships with the Atlanta media. I was not known as the hype PR flack but a friend to the media.

We learned that we would have to raise $500,000 to buy the church or find another place to do the program. Well one of my close friends at the Atlanta Journal Constitution LifeStyles liked the story I told her about Achor and its great success. So Liz asked her editor if she could write a story on Achor. The editor agreed.

Well I guess none of us expected what happened. One of Atlanta's more wealthy developers saw the story while drinking his morning coffee and called us about touring the Center. To make a long story short he wrote a check for $500,000 which was at that time the single largest check ever written for a nonprofit!

So did that make me feel good? You bet it did!

So I encourage you to look around your community and see if you can share some of your talents, skills and experiences.

I'm starting a new project where we plan to use our talents, skills and experiences to build 7,000,000 homes for the homeless and poor around the world. It's called 7th Haven and you can read about at the web link.

Join me and start giving back to your community through Social Entrepreneurship!

7th Haven
Social Entrepreneurship in action through building 7,000,000 homes for the homeless and poor around the world in 7 years.