ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  • It is more difficult to give money away

    intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

    -Andrew Carnegie

  • The true measure of a man is how he treats

    someone who can do him absolutely no good.

    -Samuel Johnson

  •  If you can’t feed a hundred people,

    then just feed one.

    -Mother Teresa

  • No one has ever

    become poor by giving.

    -Anne Frank

  • If you are feeling helpless,

    help someone.

    -Aung San Suu Kyi

  • We make a living by what we get;

    but we make a life by what we give.

    -Winston Churchill

  • Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap

    but by the seeds that you plant.

    -Robert Louis Stevenson

  • If you think you are too small to be effective,

    you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

    -Betty Reese

  • Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,

    nothing is going to get better. It's not.

    -Dr. Seuss

  • Give all thou canst, high Heaven rejects the lore

    Of nicely-calculated less or more.

    -William Wordsworth

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Barbara Bonner started her professional life as an art historian, moving on to leadership positions in three New York City museums. She later served as Vice President of Bennington College and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. She now has her own consulting practice focused on helping non-profits transform their philanthropic support. Committed to a life in philanthropy, she has served on ten nonprofit boards and has started a fund to serve women with cancer in her region. She is currently board chair at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. A gardener, swimmer, avid reader and enthusiastic student of yoga, Eastern religions and contemplative practice, Barbara lives in a converted barn in the beautiful Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. She is the inordinately proud mother of an actor and an English professor and grandmother of magnificent Archer and Nate.

See website www.barbarabonner.org for complete information