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In Robert Lupton's book, Toxic Charity, he talks about how our giving can actually be harmful.  Essentially, in some cases we may be enabling people to stay in an unfortunate situation rather than helping them get out of it.  As someone who has given to churches as well as charities, I was definitely interested in what he had to say.  We all want to believe our gifts are making a positive </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/tYkaqo5oeGg/is-charity-toxic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tina)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gJJ9YLSD82E/TxiALWUtE3I/AAAAAAAAAVY/EXEyuWnwSrw/s72-c/toxic.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/tYkaqo5oeGg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2012/01/is-charity-toxic.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-3432200295988614077</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-30T16:34:24.890-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">education</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Marine Mammal Center</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">School of the Arts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">environment</category><title>Beautiful Rubbish</title><atom:summary>Have you ever wondered where ocean debris ends up after being washed away by incoming tides after families and frolickers leave the coast after a day of sun and fun?  In most cases the debris ends up in our pristine waterways and a lot of times in the stomachs of marine mammals.  Local eco-advocate Jennifer Mathis was motivated by this fact at a recent visit to the Marine Mammal Center in </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/_DMsPtIkXYE/beautiful-rubbish.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Coastal Community Foundation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JVjWIK9J0M4/Tv4t21OyMWI/AAAAAAAAAEc/gmZuKdCr_Ac/s72-c/Ocean%2BDebris%2BPublic%2BArt%2B%25287%2529.jpg%2Bedit.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/_DMsPtIkXYE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/12/beautiful-rubbish.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-6108064328934831021</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-29T16:00:11.937-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">giving</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">charitable choices</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">PBS</category><title>$50 to feed a hungry child?  Sure!  $50 to feed ten hungry children?  Nah!</title><atom:summary>In a story by NPR’s Alix Spiegel on Thanksgiving weekend, Alix said people are inspired to make a contribution when shown a photo of a single hungry child; but when they’re given statistics about lots of hungry children, they don’t choose to give.  And when they’re shown a photo of a single hungry child that’s accompanied by statistics, they also don’t choose to give.  It’s the photo of the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/67Bx3lS4Ifk/50-to-feed-hungry-child-sure.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Richard Hendry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cKAA5Hgdx_8/TtVHjkSFAGI/AAAAAAAAABY/YPX__7uz-IU/s72-c/Me%2Bhungry.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/67Bx3lS4Ifk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/11/50-to-feed-hungry-child-sure.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-2406429483050436516</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-16T18:03:39.697-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">volunteer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">technology</category><title>Generous Geeks at Philanthropy Week</title><atom:summary>Hopefully, most of you know it's Philanthropy Week here in the lowcountry.  As part of the celebration, active Palmetto Technology Hub (PATH) volunteers and some nonprofits got together for a lunch at our office today.    (You can see them displaying some of the swag we received from Google!).

Although PATH regularly holds free trainings and the occasional lunch for everyone involved in PATH, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/z9VywEPBKUc/generous-geeks-at-philanthropy-week.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tina)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bw2vWcyS0gs/TsQ_ZM9xA0I/AAAAAAAAASc/O2U0Mzr_V6I/s72-c/2011-11-16+12.47.46.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/z9VywEPBKUc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/11/generous-geeks-at-philanthropy-week.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-8045583687239430992</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-25T13:31:25.102-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">event</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">education</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guest blogger</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">heir's property</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nonprofit</category><title>Guest Blogger: Center for Heir's Property Preservation Staff Tish Lynn</title><atom:summary>Hello Everyone – How many of you have heard the term - heirs’ property?  I hope MORE of you than when I started helping with marketing for the Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation a year and a half ago?!But seriously…I want all of you to know what heirs’ property is and what the Center does…because what happens to heirs’ property happens to you.Airs? Hairs? Heirs?  Howzat?  It’s HEIRS and it’s</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/OkvLxWA5CTA/guest-blogger-center-for-heirs-property.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Coastal Community Foundation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8dBYStS7nSg/TqbvRqyvsoI/AAAAAAAAADg/escs4BmaQVA/s72-c/Tish%2BLynn.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/OkvLxWA5CTA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/10/guest-blogger-center-for-heirs-property.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-6860181639084474191</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-03T18:41:27.380-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fundraising</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Board</category><title>Building a Generous Board</title><atom:summary>

I talked with an Executive Director and his Board Chair this morning about how to increase the expected level of giving by each member of the Board.  They wanted the standard Board Member gift to be $5,000.  It is currently much less.  The question was how to get there. 

The answer is a bit more complicated than they had hoped. 

Of course one needs to make members of the Board aware of the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/jHKUNtmrOMM/building-generous-board.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (george)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eZyI2JUpXEw/Too6CHb8EOI/AAAAAAAAAqA/xR1V1MU7t9w/s72-c/Board+Room.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/jHKUNtmrOMM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/10/building-generous-board.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-3762290865257265250</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-23T14:51:47.108-04:00</atom:updated><title>Sonny's Safari</title><atom:summary>Sonny Sutton, the recently hired Administrative Data Assistant to the Grants and Programs department, had his first experience with site visits for Open Grants finalists last month. After finishing over 40 visits, he got a good idea of what our grantees do for the community and what the Foundation does for our donors.    Grants and Programs Staff visit every organization that applies and </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/mbFwuWWhW4Q/sonnys-safari.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Meg)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yGAA-iWAknQ/TnzT0K5o2nI/AAAAAAAAAGY/70DK5Er-M5U/s72-c/Wings%2Bfor%2BKids%2B2.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/mbFwuWWhW4Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/09/sonnys-safari.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-8748659001943640900</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-15T10:31:55.892-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">volunteer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">technology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nonprofit</category><title>Free tech support for lowcountry nonprofits</title><atom:summary>Did you know free tech support is available for lowcountry nonprofits?   Yes, free!   Palmetto Technology Hub was started informally in February of 2010 to meet the computer needs of nonprofits and continues to grow with funding from Google.      

Local geeks sign up to provide volunteer support and nonprofits can submit help requests, ranging from broken computers to website building.  Not </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/DHayZ7WmUg0/free-tech-support-for-lowcountry.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tina)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i65Uu7w3PJQ/TnII5yzLmdI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/8dW4KzukWS4/s72-c/SC_PATH_round.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/DHayZ7WmUg0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/09/free-tech-support-for-lowcountry.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-6611786660841488446</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-22T09:22:50.405-04:00</atom:updated><title>Who's in charge here?</title><atom:summary>
With small budgets, free health clinics in our area can't do much advertising, so how's anybody to know where they're located, what they do, and who can use them? With a 3-year grant from the Duke Endowment, AccessHealth Tricounty Network has an office at Trident United Way to inventory and coordinate all the health-related services available. Twenty-seven partner agencies serving people with </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/SER2mmrJSOg/whos-in-charge-here.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Meg)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XqvpA5iD0DU/TlJYALyu_pI/AAAAAAAAAGA/_WB7sZCKvWA/s72-c/_userimg-uw-logo.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/SER2mmrJSOg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/08/whos-in-charge-here.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-5972208055032722885</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-22T09:17:44.764-04:00</atom:updated><title>Breaking the cycle</title><atom:summary>
The Family Justice Center of Georgetown County (FJCGC) opened its doors in January of 2011 to serve victims of domestic violence. It originated in 2007 as a grassroots response to a steep rise in the number of domestic violence cases in Georgetown County Deeply concerned by the growing rate of domestic violence, a group of concerned citizens gathered legislators, judges, law enforcement, service</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/e3a3WtZVBuQ/breaking-cycle.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Meg)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UEsC8r6GEZ0/TlJWxxyE3UI/AAAAAAAAAF4/yDYSPJO-I5Q/s72-c/014-CaseSol.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/e3a3WtZVBuQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/08/breaking-cycle.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-4453514429612781385</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-08T18:18:26.217-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">strategy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social media</category><title>Start Some Good with Social Media</title><atom:summary>I had the opportunity to review "Welcome to the Fifth Estate" by Geoff Livingston for Start Some Good.  The full review is available on their blog and I've highlighted a few key questions below.  By now, it's likely you are one of the 750 million users on Facebook.  Are you using Facebook to connect with people about your mission, or just stumbling along?  

Livingston's book is about social </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/LNanrh5HoOw/start-some-good-with-social-media.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tina)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CDmwYKDSINQ/TkBfQnwq7wI/AAAAAAAAAQM/qhvYYKnRUJM/s72-c/welcome%2Bto%2Bthe%2Bfifth%2Bestate.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/LNanrh5HoOw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/08/start-some-good-with-social-media.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-1730798009272282820</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-11T09:13:59.343-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">compound interest</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">start a fund</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">endowments</category><title>Shade trees and compound interest</title><atom:summary>A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. (Elton Trueblood, Quaker theologian and writer).With a little over $60,000 in gifts from Billie and Alan Houghton, the Foundation’s Human Needs Endowment was created 27 years ago.In the years since, that $60,000 has grown to just under $400,000 even</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/BnTh8t1WG7I/shade-trees-and-compound-interest.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Richard Hendry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-llG1c9acYoo/Thr2wSiOleI/AAAAAAAAABQ/7o0TXFhPgSg/s72-c/Boy%2Bunder%2Btree.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/BnTh8t1WG7I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/07/shade-trees-and-compound-interest.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-5443278165376466790</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-27T22:27:00.880-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">generosity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fundraising</category><title>Thank You, Think You, Thonk You?</title><atom:summary>

I've been thinking about thanking.  I say "Thank You" at least a dozen times each day.  I thank my wife for reminding me to pick up my house keys on my way out the door (she is so thoughtful).  I thank the lady who holds the door open for me at the post office (she is not so self-absorbed as to let the door slam in my face).  I thank Liz, our office manager, for being in the office early (she </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/MyU9VwRu_Ug/thank-you-think-you-thonk-you.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (george)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IYwsKByjpeg/Tgk25MB7pRI/AAAAAAAAAno/UlXz4DzZjkw/s72-c/images.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/MyU9VwRu_Ug" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/06/thank-you-think-you-thonk-you.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-2473673628386835795</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-23T14:06:16.345-04:00</atom:updated><title>Affordable Healthcare in your neighborhood</title><atom:summary>Previous issues of Richard's Report (PDF)  have included information about free Health Clinics all over our service area, using volunteers and donations to provide medical and dental, prescriptions, respite, and information services. But with small budgets, they can’t do much advertising, so how’s anybody to know where they’re located, what they do, and who can use them?With a 3-year grant from </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/l-fBFwhSKSA/affordable-healthcare-in-your.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Meg)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-67ZmTLaa6Fg/TdqFDbgexHI/AAAAAAAAACo/VERk9HHQMzM/s72-c/_userimg-uw-logo.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/l-fBFwhSKSA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/05/affordable-healthcare-in-your.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-8326546849486186123</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-27T10:02:14.065-04:00</atom:updated><title>The Year-end Nonprofit Survey is in!</title><atom:summary>According to a survey conducted by the Nonprofit Research Collaborative, only 52 percent of 1,845 charitable organizations surveyed reached their fundraising goals in 2010. The survey concentrated on two key areas—organizations that reached their fundraising goals and organizations that raised more funds last year than in the previous year.Here are some interesting findings:- 43% of organizations</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/Zk9qe2XQh_g/year-end-nonprofit-survey-is-in_27.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Meg)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/Zk9qe2XQh_g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/04/year-end-nonprofit-survey-is-in_27.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-6921036847449307068</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-27T09:13:38.022-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">grants</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blackbaud</category><title>Reflections of a veteran Grantor</title><atom:summary>I am sure the thought of Patrick Hodges being a grantor is somewhat terrifying for those that know me, but after 3 years of serving on the Blackbaud Fund advisory board, that is exactly what I am!  Dare I say the experience has been life changing?  Well, perhaps not life changing, but my participation in the process has forever changed my perspective on the needs of our community and the positive</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/e7aL5muUz2A/reflections-of-veteran-grantor.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Meg)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kIthTkIy4B0/TbgL25AHzCI/AAAAAAAAACM/jp0qfSg_mMs/s72-c/IMG00144-20110411-1611.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/e7aL5muUz2A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/04/reflections-of-veteran-grantor.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-5288421089426848267</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-16T16:19:28.531-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">generosity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">community</category><title>Defining your community</title><atom:summary>I was late and now after several minutes more of searching I found a parking place.  Not a big deal, but as I got out of the car I put on my jacket quickly and wondered how my apology would sound.  Being busy is probably good.  Being insensitive to a prospect's time is definitely not.  I tried several versions of my apology in my head as I jaywalked and dodged traffic.

Half a block from my </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/Z2fcA3ZCU7o/defining-your-community.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (george)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A29zaOmCmKM/Tanw-D1kfgI/AAAAAAAAAnE/8egAcdlX3Jk/s72-c/Jacket+Collar.bmp" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/Z2fcA3ZCU7o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/04/defining-your-community.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-2836100029484939544</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T15:28:41.257-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Daniel Island</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cainhoy Wando Huger</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">history</category><title>Behind God's Back</title><atom:summary>Hundreds of copies of a newly published book were distributed on a Saturday afternoon in March to residents of Cainhoy, Wando and Huger in lower Berkeley County, near Daniel Island. The author was there to sign copies of the book, and the British Broadcasting Company was there to report on it.      What I saw as I left the book-signing at the old Keith School (site of a Black neighborhood school </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/jiaJh4uwDQY/behind-gods-back_13.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Richard Hendry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lUXAZ1wp4pk/TaX4hZFaNdI/AAAAAAAAAMU/Suqxor96Ivk/s72-c/Keith+school+001+-+solo+reader.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/jiaJh4uwDQY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/04/behind-gods-back_13.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-6517068148838089954</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-18T16:44:03.439-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">charitable choices</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">philanthropy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">charitable ranking</category><title>Gas for the car</title><atom:summary>Our Board doesn’t recommend where most of our discretionary grant dollars go.  Community volunteers do, and then our Board approves them. Some Committee volunteers say, “We need to invest these grant dollars in organizations that can prove to us that they’re effective.  If they can’t develop the discipline to learn to sell the value of what they do, they don’t deserve support.” Others say, “</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/F2DDzV63UEc/gas-for-car.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Richard Hendry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bOoHGzp7_j4/TYPECDn67tI/AAAAAAAAAA0/FdPE1jnSb5w/s72-c/images.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/F2DDzV63UEc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/03/gas-for-car.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-2379889052369207186</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-04T20:48:25.648-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">event</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">arts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Griffith Visual Art Fund</category><title>Different Perspectives</title><atom:summary>I was sharing a pizza with Elizabeth McKeever, the Griffith/Reyburn Lowcountry Artist of the Year, and Karen Ann Myers from Redux at lunch today. I had one of those moments when you realize that you are an outsider looking in. Karen had just explained to Elizabeth what Elizabeth’s award-winning triptych “Different Perspectives” meant. The patina on the left most panel of the three and the glassy </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/ZzYqvsvLTX4/different-perspectives.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (george)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pfIARdcavv8/TUyqjO1MwLI/AAAAAAAAAmo/e-kl_ooIBek/s72-c/McKeever.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/ZzYqvsvLTX4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/02/different-perspectives.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-2296278770708277792</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-07T13:33:08.700-05:00</atom:updated><title>The New  Coastal Community Foundation Center</title><atom:summary>Coastal Community Foundation is moving! The new Coastal Community Foundation Center is almost finished and the staff is anxiously awaiting the January 21st move. The Center is located at 635 Rutledge Avenue, Suite 201 in downtown Charleston. Come check out the new building and help Coastal Community Foundation celebrate on February 11th from 5-8 pm at the Grand Opening Reception!</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/Kff-bgVXdMA/new-coastal-community-foundation-center.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Coastal Community Foundation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/KeXcnTMUYdk/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/Kff-bgVXdMA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2011/01/new-coastal-community-foundation-center.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-408646003139751656</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-21T21:37:55.891-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Charitable intent</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Selfish</category><title>Uncharitable</title><atom:summary>He’s in his 40’s, he’s pulling in a healthy executive-level salary, and he said he’s lived in the Lowcountry all his life. He had never heard of the Community Foundation until ten minutes ago when we were introduced, and he said for him, no – charitable giving is not high on his priority list. “I pay taxes for programs that provide the same services charities provide, and anyhow, poor people have</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/2uu1hmp6BYk/uncharitable.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Richard Hendry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DCIEbSPD8m8/TRtGqSdtx1I/AAAAAAAAAAo/-iYM45EK9pg/s72-c/thumbnail.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/2uu1hmp6BYk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2010/12/uncharitable.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-4328775811376818678</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-15T14:46:28.533-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">staff</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">holiday</category><title>Happy Holidays!</title><atom:summary>From our Foundation Family to yours,Happy Holidays !(Pictured from left to right) Richard, Christine, Liz, Meg,Courtenay, Brian, Angel, Ashley, Edie, George, Tina,Tasha, Margaret, Loretta, and Edna</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/8FNbI4vzlz0/happy-holidays.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Christine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uZNopnPexpc/TQkYJ72GZeI/AAAAAAAAAEU/rkXBFETrUqQ/s72-c/Staff%2BHoliday%2B2010-%2BGingerbread%2BHouse%2BDecorating%2B026.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/8FNbI4vzlz0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2010/12/happy-holidays.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-2450884054940177353</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-14T16:43:47.246-05:00</atom:updated><title>Adventures in Allendale</title><atom:summary>Recently, I traveled to Allendale County to conduct site visits for the Winthrop Family Allendale/ Hampton Fund in memory of Sarah T. Winthrop. This grant program serves nonprofits in Allendale and Hampton Counties and was established at the Foundation in 2002.  Because the family members are scattered throughout the United States and they participate in the grantmaking process remotely, they </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/MoPsf4K9ePM/adventures-in-allendale.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tasha Tucker)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y6ghkFZLOYY/TPlmgrZSBeI/AAAAAAAAAAc/WC-YOFpXjWU/s72-c/Allendale_SC.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/MoPsf4K9ePM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2010/12/adventures-in-allendale.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633144105350450477.post-1594114026843035071</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-20T12:29:25.787-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">CENTER</category><title>Staff Visits Our New Office Building</title><atom:summary>The Foundation staff recently visited the new Coastal Community Foundation Center building. Check out the tour and get the first glimpse of the new building!</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~3/131eZVYFb8w/staff-visits-our-new-office-building.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Meg)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/jlmgV9gh9qw/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CoastalCommunityFoundation/~4/131eZVYFb8w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.ccfblog.org/2010/11/staff-visits-our-new-office-building.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

