ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  • The Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

    He also accepteth from a grouch.

    -Catherine Hall

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

    but by the seeds that you plant.

    -Robert Louis Stevenson

  •  If you can’t feed a hundred people,

    then just feed one.

    -Mother Teresa

  • He who gives when asked

    has waited too long.

    -Seneca

  • Noblesse oblige, or, superior advantages

    bind you to larger generosity.

    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Kindness is the

    practice of generosity.

    -Sharon Salzberg

  • We make a living by what we get;

    but we make a life by what we give.

    -Winston Churchill

  • No one has ever

    become poor by giving.

    -Anne Frank

  • The fragrance always remains

    in the hand that gives the rose.

    -Heda Bejar

  • Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,

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

    -Dr. Seuss

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