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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
[CLP-Interns] Reflection Entry (Nov 28)
Dear Interns!
This Tuesday we will be sharing "our stories" to assist us in being powerful, impactful speakers at the Making Space event on December 4th.
First of all: fundraising is tricky. Lots of us resist fundraising-- it is uncomfortable to ask for funds and we associate it with "begging" and people demand for a "sustainability plan" by the organization (i.e. people want us to "make money" in a "more respectable way" rather than asking folks to donate). Lots of negative connotations. Lots of questions, too. Do I have enough? What if I give it all away? Only rich people give money. Money is greed.
In The Soul of Money, Lynne Twist tells her story of fundraising and the direction of our funds to "our highest commitments." Her stories and her vision of money and sufficiency were important for me in my understandings of work and giving.
For this week, please take ten minutes and view this presentation by Lynne Twist about the "soul of money": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5xlJg9WxJg
On your blog take some time and prepare your response to Lynne's vision. Then, consider: what is your highest commitment? What do you commit your time and money to? One of the things you will be committing significant time (and possibly money!) to is CLP. Why? This is the story we will tell at "Making Space" on Saturday.
See you Tuesday night!
Samantha
This Tuesday we will be sharing "our stories" to assist us in being powerful, impactful speakers at the Making Space event on December 4th.
First of all: fundraising is tricky. Lots of us resist fundraising-- it is uncomfortable to ask for funds and we associate it with "begging" and people demand for a "sustainability plan" by the organization (i.e. people want us to "make money" in a "more respectable way" rather than asking folks to donate). Lots of negative connotations. Lots of questions, too. Do I have enough? What if I give it all away? Only rich people give money. Money is greed.
In The Soul of Money, Lynne Twist tells her story of fundraising and the direction of our funds to "our highest commitments." Her stories and her vision of money and sufficiency were important for me in my understandings of work and giving.
For this week, please take ten minutes and view this presentation by Lynne Twist about the "soul of money": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5xlJg9WxJg
On your blog take some time and prepare your response to Lynne's vision. Then, consider: what is your highest commitment? What do you commit your time and money to? One of the things you will be committing significant time (and possibly money!) to is CLP. Why? This is the story we will tell at "Making Space" on Saturday.
See you Tuesday night!
Samantha
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Great Quote, Great Resources
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Outline for the "Better Together" Campaign, awesome tools for using Social Media to make a movement: http://content.delivra.com/etapcontent/InterfaithYouthCore/attachments/Interfaith%20Leader%20Action%20Calendar.pdf
Outline for the "Better Together" Campaign, awesome tools for using Social Media to make a movement: http://content.delivra.com/etapcontent/InterfaithYouthCore/attachments/Interfaith%20Leader%20Action%20Calendar.pdf
Saturday, November 20, 2010
[CLP-Interns] Reflection Entry (Nov 20)
Hello Karla, Cheng, Malcolm, Gilbert, Sara and Francis--
As promised, this week's reading/reflection is on “Why India?”/ “Why Riverside? / Why Mexico?”
To start us off-- why this?
As you know, our annual celebration/fundraiser, “Making Space: Two Years with CLP” is on Saturday, December 4th from 6:30PM-8:30PM at Back to the Grind Coffee Shop in Downtown Riverside. As I'm sure Kat would attest, the most important thing to communicating an idea is the personal story behind that idea. For example-- why you are in CLP and why I am in CLP is different, and should be different. The personal always moves us in a deeper way. We need to be personal at “Making Space.”
And, as you know: CLP does not just collaborate with our brothers and sisters in one country-- we collaborate in all three. Sometimes this is forgotten when people hear we “work in India.” The immediate assumption is that we only work “somewhere else.” And there is a feeling of frustration and defensiveness-- “Why not HERE?” Why don't you work here?”
What does that question mean to us? First of all, where is that question coming from? Why is that person asking the question? What emotions are behind it? Then, what is our personal response? And where does that response come from? This analysis could bring out some ugly-beautiful stuff: from our own (underlying) feelings of superiority, power or entitlement (as challenged by Ivan Illich) or our guilt for the past and the present or our vision for transcendence and transformation or our hunger for connection.
So, the question for your first formal blog “post” / travel journal entry: [Why India? Why Riverside? Why Mexico?]
To help you us started or inspire some thought, some light reading/viewing/listening. Skim them all or pick a couple to read/watch more closely to get your own mind/heart going:
(1) My sermon/reflection on on the soul and global wholeness: http://bit.ly/soulandwholeness_swilson
(2) An LA Times article on poverty in Riverside (Oct 2010): http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/08/local/la-me-inland-empire-poverty-20101008
(3) Audio recording of MLK on Gandhi, NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99480326
(4) Video interview of Arundhati Roy, Indian activist on Obama, war and the Indian government: http://www.zcommunications.org/acclaimed-indian-author-arundhati-roy-on-obama-s-wars-poverty-and-india-s-maoist-rebels-by-arundhati-roy
(5) Music video, Indigo Girls “Shame on You”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKqUglOC3_8
These five links are for triggering our own ideas/thoughts-- they do not represent a formal “CLP” opinion on anything (I don't think we have formal opinions, just principles). Use these to get your ideas and curiosities going. Your blog response does not have to be exact or perfect or complete (whatever that means)-- it can be bullet points, some varied ideas. We will be working on this question for a long time. This is just the beginning. Kat has many resources on this one.
See you all, and your blog entries, on Tuesday night. And for some of you, see you in the next couple days as we get started on your projects.
Yeah!
Samantha
As promised, this week's reading/reflection is on “Why India?”/ “Why Riverside? / Why Mexico?”
To start us off-- why this?
As you know, our annual celebration/fundraiser, “Making Space: Two Years with CLP” is on Saturday, December 4th from 6:30PM-8:30PM at Back to the Grind Coffee Shop in Downtown Riverside. As I'm sure Kat would attest, the most important thing to communicating an idea is the personal story behind that idea. For example-- why you are in CLP and why I am in CLP is different, and should be different. The personal always moves us in a deeper way. We need to be personal at “Making Space.”
And, as you know: CLP does not just collaborate with our brothers and sisters in one country-- we collaborate in all three. Sometimes this is forgotten when people hear we “work in India.” The immediate assumption is that we only work “somewhere else.” And there is a feeling of frustration and defensiveness-- “Why not HERE?” Why don't you work here?”
What does that question mean to us? First of all, where is that question coming from? Why is that person asking the question? What emotions are behind it? Then, what is our personal response? And where does that response come from? This analysis could bring out some ugly-beautiful stuff: from our own (underlying) feelings of superiority, power or entitlement (as challenged by Ivan Illich) or our guilt for the past and the present or our vision for transcendence and transformation or our hunger for connection.
So, the question for your first formal blog “post” / travel journal entry: [Why India? Why Riverside? Why Mexico?]
To help you us started or inspire some thought, some light reading/viewing/listening. Skim them all or pick a couple to read/watch more closely to get your own mind/heart going:
(1) My sermon/reflection on on the soul and global wholeness: http://bit.ly/soulandwholeness_swilson
(2) An LA Times article on poverty in Riverside (Oct 2010): http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/08/local/la-me-inland-empire-poverty-20101008
(3) Audio recording of MLK on Gandhi, NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99480326
(4) Video interview of Arundhati Roy, Indian activist on Obama, war and the Indian government: http://www.zcommunications.org/acclaimed-indian-author-arundhati-roy-on-obama-s-wars-poverty-and-india-s-maoist-rebels-by-arundhati-roy
(5) Music video, Indigo Girls “Shame on You”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKqUglOC3_8
These five links are for triggering our own ideas/thoughts-- they do not represent a formal “CLP” opinion on anything (I don't think we have formal opinions, just principles). Use these to get your ideas and curiosities going. Your blog response does not have to be exact or perfect or complete (whatever that means)-- it can be bullet points, some varied ideas. We will be working on this question for a long time. This is just the beginning. Kat has many resources on this one.
See you all, and your blog entries, on Tuesday night. And for some of you, see you in the next couple days as we get started on your projects.
Yeah!
Samantha
Friday, November 19, 2010
CLP Internships!
Hello, community!
Glad to be here updating you all on our CLP Interns!
They'll be joining us soon and posting a link to their blogs as a comment to this page. This is the first, and certainly not the last, challenge.
:)
Glad to be here updating you all on our CLP Interns!
They'll be joining us soon and posting a link to their blogs as a comment to this page. This is the first, and certainly not the last, challenge.
:)
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