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John Stanley is the author of Connected for Good: A Gameplan for a Generous Life.

And an experienced advisor to major donors and the nonprofit organizations they care about.

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The Generosity Gaps

Do you think your generosity could be different than it is today? If something is holding you back, you could be in one of three Generosity Gaps. Are you ready to close the gaps and connect your generosity to your heart’s desire?

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The Generosity Gameplan™ Process

It helps to have a gameplan for living a generous life – a strategy that guides how you use your renewable generosity currencies. The Generosity Gameplan is a 7-step process that guides you as you make donations, direct your donor-advised fund, start a foundation or nonprofit, or devote more energy to philanthropy.

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Decades of experience as advisors to philanthropists, foundations, and nonprofits means we’ve got stories to share about how great relationships have resulted in fulfillment of our clients’ grandest dreams. And it all starts with a conversation.

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You’ve got the vision, now you need an execution plan to reach your goals. John Stanley helps major donors, strategic grant-makers, foundations, and nonprofits through private consultations, speaking events, and specialized management services.

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Back to Basics Part II

Doesn’t true generosity really flow from gratitude? My good friend, Dr. Harville Hendrix thinks so:

“A person must get connected with how he or she has received love and generosity. If you can’t receive generosity, you can’t receive grace. Without this connection, this self-awareness, one can only act generous, and generosity becomes a utility. What have you been given?”

Embarking on this practice of transformational generosity, driven by connection, starts with a disposition of gratitude.

Our gratefulness for what we have been given becomes the way forward to a better way to give, and it starts with our heart’s desire to connect with God and others in a meaningful way. God has wired us in such a way that we run best on renewable energy sources generated in relationship. The old paradigm of check writing and volunteering can feel exhausting and futile when it lacks the connection that our hearts crave. But …

Back to Basics

St Augustine quote image “God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them” Saint Augustine

When we give well, we build connections. Our attention, our efforts, and our money create bridges to other people and to the world around us. But what kind of connections are we building? Are they an inch wide and a mile deep or a mile wide and an inch deep? Do they come from the heart or from habit? And are they connections for good or connections for networking?

If you’re like me, you want your giving to matter, and you want your connections to be mutually nourishing and make an impact. You know that generosity rightly understood is transformational, not transactional.

People know in their hearts that bigger giving is not better……. …

“…. John is challenging all of us to get outside of ourselves and look for ways to be generous…”

– Dennis Rainey
FamilyLife President and CEO

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