Announcing the Dallas Business Journal 40 Under Forty

Announcing the Dallas Business Journal 40 Under Forty

Congrats to the Dallas Business Journal 40 Under Forty!

If you are interested in meeting "the best and the brightest business leaders under forty," who are listed below, the DBJ is convening an event for them hosted by the Tower Club Dallas, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Thursday, June 18.

http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/event/6386?sid=f70df161039a3c93638f3b6979c52848

Deadline to register is 5pm Monday, June 15.

Here they are:

Brian Amend, AC Lordi Consulting

Angelo Antoline, mundayMorning Creative Group

Ashley Blanchette, Robertson, Griege & Thoele

Scott Burnett, Watson Wyatt Worldwide

Emily Callahan, Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Jason Dodd, The Cirrus Group

Clay Dover, Raising Canes Chicken Fingers

Mitch Edgeworth, Doctors Hospital at White Rock Lake

Kern Egan, The Richards Group

Brent Fitch, University of Phoenix - Dallas

Sonny Garcia, e-Rewards, Inc.

Yolanda Garcia, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Kourtny Garrett, DOWNTOWNDALLAS

Grant Harrell, 21-Century Silicon, Inc.

Liana Hawes, Wilson Associates

Dr. Brody Hildebrand, Preston Hollow Specialists

Nichole Jordan, Grant Thornton

Cris Jordan, Transwestern

Suzan Kedron, Jackson Walker L.L.P.

Shannon Kraus, HKS, Inc.

Jon Lineberger, Dallas Baptist University

Courtney Marcus, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Krystal Mims, Texas Health Partners

Erin Nealy Cox, Stroz Friedberg LLC

Jeffrey Nieman, Tenet Healthcare Corporation

Mary Nix, Gordon & Rees, LLP

Kevin Pailet, Prescott Pailet Benefits LP

Chris Peterie, Swingle Collins & Associates

Cheri Phyfer, Sherwin Williams

Christi Redfearn, LEED Ap, REDLEE/SCS, Inc.

J. Daniel "Dan" Rodriguez, Tenet Healthcare Corporation

Dupree Scovell, Trammell Crow Company

Conner Searcy, Insight Equity

Nicole Small, Dallas Museum of Nature & Science

Caleb Smith, Spire Realty Group, LP

Scott Sonju, Frisco RoughRiders

Jimmy Stathatos, City of Roanoke

Jeff Staubach, Jones Lang LaSalle

Richard Vitale, Bank of America

Temple Weiss, La Quinta

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Visionaries Wanted for Echoing Green Fellowship

From the folks at Echoing Green:

Visionaries Wanted for Echoing Green Fellowship
Do you have an incredible, new idea that could change your community, country, or world? Are you an entrepreneur who won't rest until your idea has been brought to life? Or a leader who has recently started an organization to do just that? If so, apply for an Echoing Green Fellowship. You could receive up to $90,000 in seed funding and support to launch a new organization that turns your innovative idea for social change into action.

Follow in the footsteps of the founders of Teach For America, City Year, and over 450 other social change organizations around the world and apply online. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2008.

Watch the video: http://www.echoinggreen.org/video
Find out whether you qualify: http://www.echoinggreen.org/shouldyouapply
Questions? Contact Echoing Green at: apply@echoinggreen.org .

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Nominations Invited for $1 Million Gates Award for Global Health

The Gates Award for Global Health was established by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to reward and exemplify organizations which have developed processes for improving health, especially in resource poor settings, with measurable results. The Award recognizes past achievements and the promise of continuing activity and improvement.

The deadline for submitting nominations is Friday, Oct. 31, 2008.

The Award will be presented in Washington, D.C. at a special Awards Ceremony during the Global Health Council's Annual International Conference, May 26-30, 2009.

More info here:
http://www.globalhealth.org/conference/view_top.php3?id=749

Oh, the prize? $1,000,000.

See previous winners here:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/RelatedInfo/GatesAward/default.htm

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And the winner is...(Philanthropassion Contest)

Thanks to everyone who responded to the Philanthropassion Contest! If you missed all of the entries, read them here ... and do not hesitate from adding your own! The contest is over, but the conversation is not.

Before I announce the winner, a few of the lines that really grabbed me:

• Ryan K: I get to live in and be accepted by two remarkably different worlds who share a fundamental humanity and a common path towards wholeness.
• Jeff Brooks: I love fundraising because every time I motivate someone to give, that person is transformed.
• Phil Cubeta: Accessing that moment of vision, that inspired self, that moment of grace in which the most surprised person in the room may be the client, as he or she hears himself say, perhaps for the first time what he or she most cares about, that is what I enjoy most.
• Bob Johnson: What (I) find most interesting is how truly people interested in philanthropy willingly share their knowledge and expertise with so many others.
• Jennifer Mills: My philanthropassion revolves around my own experiences and desire to change it for other people.
• Jason Dick: • (I) desire to help the world understand that no matter what their wealth they can make a difference and change the world.
• Beth Kanter: My passion for philanthropy is personal ... to give back to the beautiful country that gave our family our beautiful children.
• Dani Brzozowski: I (learned) through experience the domino effect compassionate acts of humanity have -- first on the initial recipient and then on those around him.
• Katya Andresen: What makes for the most powerful motivation is not how bad something is now but rather how much better it could be.
• Peter Deitz: I'm so passionate about philanthropy I don't even have time to write up why!
• Charles Kiser:My passion for humanity stems from my passion for a God who is the chief philanthropist. I serve humanity because it's the primary way I serve God.

Thanks to everyone for posting -- and now, for the winner... James Holcomb, CFRE, whose clarity of mission and sense of purpose inspire me on my own quest!

I have always felt that God endowed me with so much that I have a responsibility to give back. That is why I became involved with my first nonprofit organization 51 years ago, The Southern Baptist Radio-TV Commission. It has been a great run, and I have helped five nonprofit organizations raise the funds they needed to fulfill their mission and change the world. But there was something missing. I found that I could expand, enhance and multiply exponentially my mission if I mentored other fundraisers to become the best they can be. So now, I am having a greater impact on changing the world by helping other professional fundraisers realize their potential. This is my philanthropic passion.

I'll be posting an update soon to follow up to what I offered at the beginning of this contest.

Thanks again to everyone who submitted a response. You can review them all here:
http://theraiser.blogspot.com/2008/06/philanthropassion-contest.html

Philanthropassion Contest

This blog's audience almost entirely consists of people who are so passionate about philanthropy that they have decided to devote a significant portion of their life to it. I want to know:

What drives your philanthropassion?

Here is my offer:

1. If I get at least 5 responses, I will post the best response on the top of this blog for a month along with a link to any site that you want (your blog, your organization, etc.).
2. If I get at least 10 responses, I will also send a copy of Charles Collier's "Wealth in Families" to the person who posts the best response.
3. For every response above that, I will also make a donation of $1 per response to the charity of the best responder's choice. So, if I get 100 responses, I'll be making a $100 gift to whatever charity the winner chooses.

I'm taking a few days off to prepare for the CFRE exam and to fly to D.C. for the Hunger Justice Leaders conference. I look forward to reading about The Passion of the Fundraiser!

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