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Readers of Elijah’s Coin Fund Charitable Causes
Readers made it happen.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Steve O’Brien’s novel, Elijah’s Coin, are directed to a non-profit, The Elijah’s Coin Charitable Foundation. The Foundation has recently selected four worthy organizations for financial support.
Youth Leadership Foundation programs are founded on Four Pillars of Success: Challenging Academics, Character Formation, Personal [...]
Fence Posts
The silver Cadillac purred down the asphalt. Dad was a car guy. He bought a new Cadillac every two years, whether we needed it or not. He was a 21st century cowboy. A good day for dad was jumping into his car and driving several hundred miles. It was about freedom. It was [...]
Each Day You Have a Challenge
The elderly woman looked down at the young boy seated at the solid maple table. They were in the breakfast nook. Sunlight filled the room and shadows from the flowered branches of the dogwood tree danced and bobbed on the table. A magnifying glass covered the Sunday paper which [...]
Help Wanted: Social Arbitrageur, No Experience Necessary.
How’s your title?
Do you want a new one?
Try this one on—Social Arbitrageur.
Sounds cool, doesn’t it? What does it mean? What do I have to do?
Well, let’s start with the concept of social entrepreneur. This is a person who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize and manage a venture to create [...]
Interview with Steve O’Brien, Author of Elijah’s Coin
Just posted. Read the INTERVIEW with Reviewabook123.
3Apr2009 | Steve O'Brien | 0 comments | Continued
The “Give to Get” Philosophy
What does it mean to “Give to Get?” It is a philosophy and way of life that centers around selfless actions on behalf of others. The benefits are not known, yet returned to the giver. The first step in giving to get is the hardest because you have no idea what you [...]
22Mar2009 | Steve O'Brien | 0 comments | Continued
The Leadership You Need
Now, perhaps more than ever, the world is looking for leadership. Unfortunately, the world expects someone to step up and fix problems for them. The world’s answers do not lie in leadership, in government programs, nor even in the best intentioned social program.
The answer lies in each one of us. It [...]
The “Stories” Are Rolling In
We have been overwhelmed with stories of Giving to Get in connection with the Share Your Story tab. A&N Publishing has agreed to publish a follow on book to Elijah’s Coin that will include stories about giving to get. Some of the submissions have been on behalf of non-profit organizations that started as a simple [...]
The Character Elijah
In Elijah’s Coin, one of the main characters is Elijah King, a mysterious mentor who delivers a life lesson to the central character, Tom. In the process of their conversations, he gives Tom a coin. On his journey to learn the message, Tom encounters others with the same coin and tries to learn and [...]
16Jan2009 | Steve O'Brien | 0 comments | Continued
Elijah’s Coin: A Message to Young Men at Risk
It is no coincidence that the setting for Elijah’s Coin is Blacksburg, Virginia. I could have chosen Littleton, Colorado, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, or DeKalb, Illinois. All four of these locales, and tragically many others like them, were plagued by young men consumed by rage and indifference to the lives and well being of those around [...]
12Jan2009 | Steve O'Brien | 0 comments | Continued
I like it...."social arbitrageur". Your article has given me reason to think more about an enormous social inequity that ...
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