All Posts Tagged With: "Give to Get"

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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 [...]

18Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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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 are going to [...]

22Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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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 | | 0 comments | Continued
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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 | | 0 comments | Continued