there was a young girl who was born with
a great passion and an unwavering
unwavering heart for people so much so
that she was really quite hypersensitive
when it came to people’s needs and their
emotions and she gave even if it meant
that she’d give her last she loved
people and she grew up to be a young
woman in her early twenties and she
became associated with organizations and
programs that allowed her to visit the
incarcerated feed the homeless and to
share a kind word with those who were
seemingly disconnected from society now
believe it or not in her circles of
influence there were some that
ostracized her because of this they felt
that her lifestyle and her life
experience or the lack thereof
disqualified her from being able to have
empathy and understand the very needs of
the people that she was trying to help
can you imagine being disqualified to
help somebody and this frustrated her
this bothered her sometimes it even
crippled her efforts to help the very
people that she wanted to connect with
until one day she stopped by this not so
favorable liquor store to help a man had
to talk to a man who was standing in the
front and he welcomed her and they
chatted and it was at that moment in
that conversation that she realized the
power of connection something in this
man’s life had broken he needed help and
they chatted and she realized in that
moment that we are all connected by our
shared common emotional experiences she
discovered on that day that she was a
philanthropist now what did you think
when I said that she discovered she was
a philanthropist I mean because often
when we think of philanthropy we think
about the beautiful mailers that come in
the
at Holiday time and we think of oh my
goodness all the telephones and the
commercials and even the click of a
button for a GoFundMe that’s what we
think about when we think about
philanthropy and America is a generous
country we give last year our fellow
citizens gave over four hundred and ten
billion dollars to global causes and 70%
70% of those contributions were given by
individuals just like you and me people
give and philanthropy is intrinsically
connected to our Western ideas of
democracy we set the benchmark for the
rest of the world and when they start
delivering their processes and doing
philanthropy they look at us hmm but did
you know that right now currently in a
hundred and nine countries nonprofits
and forms of philanthropy are restricted
obstructed and even illegal in a hundred
and fifty eight countries right now
Internet access and Technology use in
support of humanitarian efforts think
about that are strongly restricted can
you imagine not being able to give and
someone’s hour of need or being able to
help them and yet instill with these
obstacles people still give they still
connect philanthropy is alive and well
and every single culture and every
religion they foster core values in
benevolence so we give and we
participate in spite of great obstacles
with all of this giving in these
organizations why is there still such a
need while perhaps our ideas of
philanthropy are limited very limited
because philanthropy is not about wealth
it’s not about writing a cheque it’s
much more than that it’s about the power
of relationship and perspectives it’s
about caring for the common good and the
uplifting of others seeking within
yourself to do what is right now all of
this information is good and you may say
well Harris what does that have to do
with me well every single person
identifies themselves by lifestyle
identifiers subcultures how many of you
are foodies or car lovers or minimalist
or vegans we subclass ourselves yet when
it comes to listing philanthropy as a
lifestyle subculture we only list it
when it is attached to wealth think
about that so I want you to do something
really quickly with me I want you to
everyone in the place to close your eyes
for a second and I want you to think
about something you love to do get that
feeling of something that brings you joy
capture that feeling for a second in
your heart you feel that now I want you
to open your eyes and quickly in two
seconds I want you to just share that
with anybody you can who’s closely near
you just tell them what makes you feel
okay okay now time is up did you hear
what happened in the room do you hear
the laughter do you hear the joy in the
room from sharing your joy now want you
to close your eyes again for a second
close your eyes and I want you to think
of the opposite I want you to think of a
moment that she needed help that she
were lonely or isolated that she were
depressed or sad now open your eyes do
you hear the opposite the void in the
room ladies and gentlemen I present to
you that whatever the two things are
that you felt they are the only two
things you need to make you a
philanthropist radical right you feel
your joy and you feel your pain now what
if we all mentored or tutored what if we
all when we saw the lady standing in
line in front of us in the market who
has to stop every five items to get a
subtotal to ensure that she can pay for
her groceries what if you were not
frustrated or in a rush or frustrated
with her process but understood that joy
in pain and you became benevolent and
you bought her groceries what if we did
that because it’s not about writing a
check remember young lady that I told
you about just a second ago who was in
front of the liquor store with the man
that was me and an all the good that I
did and all the experiences that I did
not have the things that we had in
common was joy and pain and I certified
to you that if you take the two things
that you have experienced just now and
if you take it daily and weekly and add
your joy to the need of someone else
well ladies and gentlemen I certify that
that makes you indeed a philanthropist
and I want you to take action I want you
to take action this week and I want you
to take that pain and that joy
and I want you to remember it and I want
you to put it together weekly and daily
to impact the life of someone else
doesn’t take much for us to have that in
common does it that is true philanthropy
and so this week I want you to find your
philanthropic lifestyle and make it a
subculture and I want you to find it and
I want you to love it and I want you to
do it and most of all I want you to live
it
ladies and gentlemen I’m looking at a
room of philanthropist B philanthropist
thank you [Applause]
a great passion and an unwavering
unwavering heart for people so much so
that she was really quite hypersensitive
when it came to people’s needs and their
emotions and she gave even if it meant
that she’d give her last she loved
people and she grew up to be a young
woman in her early twenties and she
became associated with organizations and
programs that allowed her to visit the
incarcerated feed the homeless and to
share a kind word with those who were
seemingly disconnected from society now
believe it or not in her circles of
influence there were some that
ostracized her because of this they felt
that her lifestyle and her life
experience or the lack thereof
disqualified her from being able to have
empathy and understand the very needs of
the people that she was trying to help
can you imagine being disqualified to
help somebody and this frustrated her
this bothered her sometimes it even
crippled her efforts to help the very
people that she wanted to connect with
until one day she stopped by this not so
favorable liquor store to help a man had
to talk to a man who was standing in the
front and he welcomed her and they
chatted and it was at that moment in
that conversation that she realized the
power of connection something in this
man’s life had broken he needed help and
they chatted and she realized in that
moment that we are all connected by our
shared common emotional experiences she
discovered on that day that she was a
philanthropist now what did you think
when I said that she discovered she was
a philanthropist I mean because often
when we think of philanthropy we think
about the beautiful mailers that come in
the
at Holiday time and we think of oh my
goodness all the telephones and the
commercials and even the click of a
button for a GoFundMe that’s what we
think about when we think about
philanthropy and America is a generous
country we give last year our fellow
citizens gave over four hundred and ten
billion dollars to global causes and 70%
70% of those contributions were given by
individuals just like you and me people
give and philanthropy is intrinsically
connected to our Western ideas of
democracy we set the benchmark for the
rest of the world and when they start
delivering their processes and doing
philanthropy they look at us hmm but did
you know that right now currently in a
hundred and nine countries nonprofits
and forms of philanthropy are restricted
obstructed and even illegal in a hundred
and fifty eight countries right now
Internet access and Technology use in
support of humanitarian efforts think
about that are strongly restricted can
you imagine not being able to give and
someone’s hour of need or being able to
help them and yet instill with these
obstacles people still give they still
connect philanthropy is alive and well
and every single culture and every
religion they foster core values in
benevolence so we give and we
participate in spite of great obstacles
with all of this giving in these
organizations why is there still such a
need while perhaps our ideas of
philanthropy are limited very limited
because philanthropy is not about wealth
it’s not about writing a cheque it’s
much more than that it’s about the power
of relationship and perspectives it’s
about caring for the common good and the
uplifting of others seeking within
yourself to do what is right now all of
this information is good and you may say
well Harris what does that have to do
with me well every single person
identifies themselves by lifestyle
identifiers subcultures how many of you
are foodies or car lovers or minimalist
or vegans we subclass ourselves yet when
it comes to listing philanthropy as a
lifestyle subculture we only list it
when it is attached to wealth think
about that so I want you to do something
really quickly with me I want you to
everyone in the place to close your eyes
for a second and I want you to think
about something you love to do get that
feeling of something that brings you joy
capture that feeling for a second in
your heart you feel that now I want you
to open your eyes and quickly in two
seconds I want you to just share that
with anybody you can who’s closely near
you just tell them what makes you feel
okay okay now time is up did you hear
what happened in the room do you hear
the laughter do you hear the joy in the
room from sharing your joy now want you
to close your eyes again for a second
close your eyes and I want you to think
of the opposite I want you to think of a
moment that she needed help that she
were lonely or isolated that she were
depressed or sad now open your eyes do
you hear the opposite the void in the
room ladies and gentlemen I present to
you that whatever the two things are
that you felt they are the only two
things you need to make you a
philanthropist radical right you feel
your joy and you feel your pain now what
if we all mentored or tutored what if we
all when we saw the lady standing in
line in front of us in the market who
has to stop every five items to get a
subtotal to ensure that she can pay for
her groceries what if you were not
frustrated or in a rush or frustrated
with her process but understood that joy
in pain and you became benevolent and
you bought her groceries what if we did
that because it’s not about writing a
check remember young lady that I told
you about just a second ago who was in
front of the liquor store with the man
that was me and an all the good that I
did and all the experiences that I did
not have the things that we had in
common was joy and pain and I certified
to you that if you take the two things
that you have experienced just now and
if you take it daily and weekly and add
your joy to the need of someone else
well ladies and gentlemen I certify that
that makes you indeed a philanthropist
and I want you to take action I want you
to take action this week and I want you
to take that pain and that joy
and I want you to remember it and I want
you to put it together weekly and daily
to impact the life of someone else
doesn’t take much for us to have that in
common does it that is true philanthropy
and so this week I want you to find your
philanthropic lifestyle and make it a
subculture and I want you to find it and
I want you to love it and I want you to
do it and most of all I want you to live
it
ladies and gentlemen I’m looking at a
room of philanthropist B philanthropist
thank you [Applause]
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