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Reflections on Generosity

Serving Nonprofits by Chany Reon Ockert Consulting, LLC, CFRE

Kick off your week with a 5-minute reflection on generosity to ground yourself in the right mindset for capital campaigns. Each reflection includes a question to ponder throughout the week to aid your work.

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123: Communities of Care

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2025/10/27

..."It is the most beautiful, the most noble side of neighbourly love, wherein the word has fully become deed...." This week, I’m sharing quotes from The Untapped Power of Jewish Fellowships and Forgotten Approaches to Care to connect the practice of hevrot to our work in fundraising. Reflection questions: How are you "thinking in relationship" to avoid depersonalizing our donors to goals or metrics?How are you bringing groups of donors together during the capital campaign to create communiti...

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122: When Failure Sparks Generosity

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2025/10/20

"All that happens, happens right: you will find it so if you observe narrowly..." This week, I am reading a quote from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, written around 171 AD. Reflection questions: When you think about a failure during the campaign, how are you observing narrowly for the right things that came out of it? How are you using failures to spark deeper conversations with donors? Reflection on quote: In working with capital campaigns, it’s not surprising that I’m well-acquainted wit...

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Trailer - Reflections on Generosity

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2025/10/13

Raising major funds in a small town can feel overwhelming—especially when your team of staff and volunteers is stretched thin and capital campaign experience is hard to find. Welcome to Reflections on Generosity, where each week brings you a five-minute reflection centered on cultivating the generosity mindset essential for capital campaign success. You'll get coaching questions to ground you in your campaign work, drawing from timeless wisdom and practical insight. Here's the beautiful tru...

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121: Leaders Give Confidence

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2025/10/13

"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs." This week, I’m reading from the Analects by Confucius, written sometime between 551 and 479 BC. Reflection questions: Is there any hesitancy among your leaders about giving first and publicly to your campaign? What are ways you can address that hesitancy?Are you willing to have the necessary conversation to ask a leader to give a gift meaningful to them or leave the Board or campaign committee for the success of the ...

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120: Hope in Giving

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2025/10/06

"...In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn..." This week, I am reading selected quotes on hope from GK Chesterton. Reflection question: Where do you need to lean into the desperate, forlorn hope this week and keep moving forward? Reflection on quote: Last week, we discussed the first of two opposite errors in our campaign messaging that we can fall into. The first error is blaming others and encoura...

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119: Avoid Rage Giving in a Campaign

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2025/09/29

"...Hatred of evil should constrain you to right, not fear. When her anger is kindled by injustice, goodness changes her form...." This week, I’m reading from the Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave, written during the 1st century BC. Reflection question: If you are experiencing a funding obstacle, how are you creating a positive message for your potential campaign donors? Reflection on quote: During times of uncertainty, there are two opposite errors in our campaign messagin...

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118: A Trusted Leader Makes the Case

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2025/09/22

"...If you don’t know what harbour you sail for, no wind is favourable. Because we live by chance, chance necessarily has great power over our lives..." In our series on uncertainty during small town capital campaigns, This week, I’m reading from Seneca’s Letter 71, first published in 65 AD. Reflection questions: How trusted is the Executive Director or CEO among your donors and the community?Is the vision for the capital campaign being communicated clearly, consistently, and with courage ami...

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117: Growing Generosity During Uncertainty

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2025/09/15

"...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs..." This week, I am reflecting a quote from George Eliot’s Middlemarch, published in 1871 to ask the question, "will donor give during uncertainty?" Reflection Questions When was the last time you did a temperature check with your donors? Asked them how t...

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116: Reflection on Reflections

Reflections on Generosity ·

2025/09/08

Over the past two years, we've begun each week together with a meaningful reflection on the beautiful space where generosity occurs, paired with coaching questions designed to ground you for the week ahead. Starting next week, this podcast will take on a slightly different focus. Each reflection will center on cultivating a generosity mindset specifically for capital campaigns, complete with coaching questions to ground you for the week ahead in your capital campaign planning and work. Here...

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115: The Humor of Generosity

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2025/09/02

"...had bequeath to his executors for charitable purposes his personal clothing and nought else..." This week I am re-reading "The Ethics of giving: The Ratio of Generosity to Income" by "a Drafter of Many Appeals" from the Hospital Magazine, published in 1915. Reflection question: When will you take the time to find the humor in our fundraising work through humorous videos or cartoons focused on fundraising or, maybe, have conversation with a colleague about their funniest moments in ...

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114: Generosity in the Arena with You

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2025/08/25

"...It is not the critic who counts..." This week, I am sharing a musical version of the Man in the Arena from Citizenship in a Republic, a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt in 1910 and with original music written and performed by Deidre Corson. Reflection questions: Imagine with the ending of your current campaign will look like. What joy will you feel? How can you encourage the donors and volunteers who are with you in the arena that the horizon of joy is coming?Reflection on...

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113: The Joy Cycle

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2025/08/18

"We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous; we experience joy in the actual act of giving something; and we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given." This week, I’m reading 3 quotes from the Buddha. Reflection questions: When you approach potential donors this week, are you apologizing for an interruption or celebrating an invitation to experience joy? How might your follow-up conversations change if you viewed them as helping donors complete their joy cycle...

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112: Teaching the Spirit of Generosity

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2025/08/11

"...It is only the spirit of giving that counts, and the very poor give without any self-consciousness..." This week, I’m reading from Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller, published in 1909. Reflection question: Do you celebrate and promote the generosity of Board members, especially those at the lowest income levels? Reflection on quote: I had a conversation with a colleague on whether the requirement to give to prevents lower income Board members from serving....

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Trailer - Reflections on Generosity

Reflections on Generosity ·

2025/08/08

Fundraising work can feel isolating, with endless tasks pulling you in every direction. But what if you stepped back from the techniques and trends to discover something deeper? Welcome to Reflections on Generosity — a weekly five-minute pause to explore the beautiful space where generosity occurs. Drawing from ancient wisdom to modern insights across all cultures, we'll ground you with thoughtful reflections and coaching questions for the week ahead. This isn't another podcast for your to-...

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111: Reconnect with the Joy of Generosity

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2025/08/03

"...O let us live in joy, although having nothing! In joy let us live like spirits of light!.." This week, I’m reading a quote from the Dhammapada, written down in the 1st century BC. Reflection questions: First, when was the last time you stepped back to view the greater horizon of your mission? Maybe it's time to do that again—to reconnect with the love, health, peace, and joy of what you get to fundraise for. Second, think about your donors. Who are the people you could share that j...

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110: A Great Present

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2025/07/28

"...We must not consider how great presents are, but in what spirit they are given..." This week, I am reading a story and quote from On Benefits by Seneca the Younger, published in 59 AD. Reflection questions: Consider the volunteers you interact with, how are you going beyond thanking them for their time and instead honoring the gift of their own self? How are we giving them an opportunity to grow and restore themselves into better versions of themselves?Reflection on quote: In the nonpr...

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109: Conditional Generosity

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2025/07/21

"...We frequently make our gifts conditional on the giving of others, not because we wish to force people to do their duty, but because we wish in this way to root the institution in the affections of as many people as possible who, as contributors, become personally concerned, and thereafter may be counted on to give to the institution their watchful interest and coöperation...." This week, I’m reading from Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller, published in 1909. Ref...

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108: Celebrate Abundance

Reflections on Generosity ·

2025/07/14

"...When we have decided to accept, let us accept with cheerfulness, showing pleasure, and letting the giver see it, so that he or she may at once receive some return for their goodness..." This week, I am reading a quote from On Benefits by Seneca the Younger, published in 59 AD. Seneca uses the word “benefit” to denote an act of charity. Reflection question: Think back to the last few donations you’ve received. How have you received them? With lukewarmness, distraction, pr...

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107: A Source of Blessing

Reflections on Generosity ·

2025/07/07

"...And joy is the appropriate attitude with which to help others because acts of generosity are a source of blessing to the giver as well as the receiver..." This week, I’m reading a quote from John Chrysostom from the 400 A.D.s. Reflection questions: If you are writing a fundraising appeal for an urgent need, step back and ask yourself these two questions. What will the donor feel when they read or hear your appeal? Does the appeal honor the subject’s dignity or, if a place or thing, the...

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106: Generosity Happens Right

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2025/06/30

"...All that happens, happens right: you will find it so if you observe narrowly..." This week, I am reading a quote from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, written around 171 AD. Reflection questions: When you have failed in your work recently, how are you observing narrowly for the right things that came out of it? Are you seeking perfection or goodness in your fundraising activities? Reflection on the quote: In working with over 100 clients, it’s not surprising that I’m well-acquainted wi...

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