| Learning Curves Have Value
Dawn Franks
Dear ,
 Everything has a learning curve, even giving - perhaps especially giving.
Take Reed Sandridge who is giving $10 away to a stranger every day for one year. Reed is in the midst of a significant personal change; he recently lost his job. His answer to what many of us would think of as a time to focus only on ourselves is to give back. Reed's guide is his mom "who always told him that when you're going through tough times, that's when you most need to give back."
What's especially interesting about his story is that even though he's only giving $10 away each day, he's in a learning curve. He's not embarrassed by what he has to learn and in fact is being very transparent about success and failure. Check out his blog and you'll see what I mean.
We've had lots of learning curves as well. If you were to draw a picture of Fourth Partner's learning curve it would look a lot like a stock market chart. From the heights of success to the valley of occasional failures, we have been learning about giving. I don't mean just learning about the organizations we give to (we have also learned a lot in that realm), but learning about the many different ways to give. For every gift, whether personal check or grant, there is a giver with his or her way of deciding how to give.
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Look for issue #3 in June 2010.
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