Now that Athleon has some money in the bank...meaning I can afford to buy lunch every now and then...the 'you're blessed and you can afford to help others' voice in the back of my head has started speaking again.
Some small number of people give to a non-church charity every year (5 some odd % I believe), and, outside of my church givings I can actually REMEMBER every single time I've been charitable with anything but change.
That fact, combined with my increasing love of entrepreneurship, has lead me to seek out amazing charitable organizations to give a small amount of money (very small really) out of every paycheck to. Most of us who are building a business are doing it for some combination of fame or wealth...yet a lot of really, really cool entrepreneurs are starting something with no real option for wealth involved.
So, over the next however long, every paycheck (our payroll is done bi-monthly) I'll let you know which really cool charity is getting the small piece of my hard earned cash. It's the same amount every month and as of now I'm not planning on doubling down....I realize that giving a bigger sum to one charity may be more beneficial, but I'm seeking out cool charities in quantity.
If you have a group I simply MUST donate to let me know in the comments below. Otherwise, go change the world however you see fit.
There are absolutely no rules to this simply organizations that do something good for somebody else (and hopefully tell me exactly where my money is going...transparency is a very good idea). They may help starving children in Africa, or people 2 feet way in Seattle. No rules. I want to find orgs who are as passionate about what they do as I am about what I do....and maybe help a fellow human being or two in the process.
(P.S. While it doesn't really count, my first bit o cash went to the candidate I supported in the November election. It AMAZES me how much money Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama spent on advertising against each other...perhaps giving to the guy outside my local starbucks today would have been a better use of my money).
Hey Brent,
I've been cruising the website trying to brainstorm a bit and figure out how to best out it to use with what I've been doing. I've enjoyed uploading plays to the playbook, Dan has been great in helping me get started - and just found the archive of Top 16 college teams and their plays. GREAT Stuff. Stumbled on the blog and noticed this post. As the SoCal Coordinator for positive Coaching Alliance I felt obligated to let you know what we're up to and direct you to this page.
Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is a nonprofit organization founded within the Stanford University Athletic Department in 1998 with the mission to transform youth sports so sports can transform youth. Through partnership with more than 1,100 youth sports organizations, leagues, schools and cities nationwide, PCA has conducted over 6,000-plus workshops for youth sports coaches, parents, organizational leaders and athletes to help create a positive, character-building youth sports environment for more than 3 million youth athletes.
In face-to-face group workshops, dynamic PCA Trainers 1) Train youth and high school sports coaches to become Double-Goal Coaches®, who teach life lessons through sports, while preparing their teams to win; 2) Develop Second-Goal Parents®, who focus on helping their youth athletes learn those life lessons; and 3) Cultivate Triple-Impact Competitors™, student athletes who strive to improve themselves, their teammates and their sport as a whole.
Please consider a gift to PCA. Your gift will support PCA’s efforts to create a social epidemic of Double-Goal Coaches producing Triple-Impact Competitors who make themselves, their teammates and the game better. Your gift makes it possible for us to expand our reach. Please know that any gift makes a difference. We hope you will consider a tax-deductible gift.
ALL GIFTS UP TO $500,000 RECEIVED BEFORE FEBRUARY 27, 2009 WILL BE MATCHED 1:1 BY THE JENESIS GROUP!
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Brent - Athleon is a great venture, and I'm looking forward to getting into it even more
Posted by: Ray Lokar | January 06, 2009 at 10:14 PM