{"id":5702,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/personalizing-giving\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:26","slug":"personalizing-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/personalizing-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"PERSONALIZING\n  GIVING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Benevolence; Generosity; Giving; Money; Stewardship; Tithing; Work<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Proverbs 3:9\u201310; Malachi 3:10; Luke 6:38; 1 Corinthians 16:2; 2 Corinthians 9:6\u20138; Hebrews 7:5\u20136<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Corporate giving is no longer about signing fat checks, public preening, and charity balls, says Jeff Skoll, vice president of strategic planning and analysis for eBay Inc. \u201cYoung, \u2018newly minted\u2019 givers anticipate seeing the effects of their gifts within their lifetimes and want a more hands-on role,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>For example, Ken Blanchard, coauthor of <i>How to Make Serious Money for Both You and Your Company<\/i>, says, \u201cWe tithe 10 percent of our profit.\u2026 We divide it among all our employees to give away. The lowest-paid employee gets to give $1,000 away, and the highest gets to give $3,500. We gave to 160 charities last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The results of this personalized giving are touching. \u201cA guy in shipping came up to me with tears in his eyes,\u201d Blanchard said. \u201cHe got the chance to give $1,000 to his parish to buy robes for the choir. He\u2019s become a local hero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Lorenzo Della Foresta, \u201cTwenty-first Century Giving,\u201d PreachingToday.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Benevolence; Generosity; Giving; Money; Stewardship; Tithing; Work References: Proverbs 3:9\u201310; Malachi 3:10; Luke 6:38; 1 Corinthians 16:2; 2 Corinthians 9:6\u20138; Hebrews 7:5\u20136 Corporate giving is no longer about signing fat checks, public preening, and charity balls, says Jeff Skoll, vice president of strategic planning and analysis for eBay Inc. \u201cYoung, \u2018newly minted\u2019 givers anticipate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/personalizing-giving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PERSONALIZING<br \/>\n  GIVING&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}