| Dusting for Fingerprints
Dawn Franks
Dear ,
 Sixteen individuals recently gathered for lunch. You won't be surprised when I tell you there were sixteen different sets of fingerprints in the room. No, I don't mean the prints at the end of each finger, but rather YOUR Giving Fingerprints.
Yes, you do have your own giving fingerprints - in essence your own style of giving that differs from anyone else. How different might your giving style be from mine? How different we are isn't all that important. What's important is recognizing you have your own style. It belongs to you and no one else.
It impacts why you give to some causes and not to others, how often you give, even how you like to be thanked.
Participating in a personalized exercise, the sixteen sorted and prioritized 25 value cards with words that impact our giving decisions. Each individual did the exercise alone. Lots of aha moments followed.
In the discussion that followed I was surprised at the impact the exercise had. Almost everyone in the room found it challenging to filter sorting the value cards through their giving decisions. In the end several said they now needed to reflect on why they give to some organizations but not others. Or even why they're still giving to some organizations.
For those of us in the room, understanding how we make giving decisions expanded our view of giving and even our giving options.
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