"Healing hearts worldwide"
08.24.05 (6:21 am) [edit]
My internship has been going really well! I feel like I have three jobs right now . . . and basically I do, but they are all fun. Working on the campus newspaper so far has just been lots of organizing and management. At Children's Heartlink http://www.childrensheartlink.org/" title="http://www.childrensheartlink.org/" target="_blank"http://www.childrensheartlink... I have been designing programs and nametags, planning etc. And my job has been to train in as a dispatcher at a limousine/hearst rental and services company.
I have thinking a lot about non-profit organizations. I have come up with three reasons why people donate time or money.
1. guilt - They feel bad because they have stuff and someone doesn't
2. duty - It is their obligation to give to someone "unfortunate"
3. compassion - "a synpathetic consciousness of others' distress and a desire to alleviate it."
posted by: newbie39 (reply)
post date: 08.24.05 (8:36 am)
I think you're being too hard on duty. I believe doing something out of a sense of duty can be very healthy and beneficial.
posted by: hopie26 (reply)
post date: 08.26.05 (10:50 am)
Reply to: newbie39
That's true - but duty can only take you so far sometimes. I think it's a cycle, like with your spiritual walk: faith carries you for awhile, then duty, then faith.