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Giving grows overall and to higher education
June 11, 2014 By toddcohen49 in Education, Fundraising, Giving, Research Tags: Blackbaud, Blackbaud Index, Blackbaud Index for Higher Education, Chuck Longfield	Leave a comment
Overall charitable giving grew 1.3 percent for the three months ended April 2014, compared to the same period a year ago, according to data from 4,138 organizations that raised over $13 billion in the previous 12 months, The Blackbaud Index says.
Online giving grew 7.9 percent in the same three-month period compared to the same period a year earlier among 3,281 charities that raised $1.8 billion online in the previous 12 months.
Overall fundraising revenue for 558 colleges and universities in the U.S., representing $1.5 billion in annual fundraising, grew 8.9 percent in 2013, compared to 2012, according to the Blackbaud Index for Higher Education.
Online fundraising revenue for 436 colleges and universities, representing $132 million in annual fundraising, grew 15.1 percent in 2013, compared to 2012, the Blackbaud Index says.
Helping to fuel that growth, particularly at schools with capital campaigns, was a healthy stock market, Blackbaud says.
While fewer alumni made gifts last year, the number of alumni for whom colleges and universities now have contact information has growth because online tools have made it easier for schools to find alumni, says Chuck Longfield, creator of the Index and chief scientist for Blackbaud.
While the growth in contacts, combined with a decline in the number of of alumni who give, has resulted in lower participation rates, "finding alumni is a good thing," he says. "If you find them, you have an opportunity to engage and cultivate them so they'll give."
— Todd Cohen
Canadian charity, Part 3: Volunteer leadership key to fundraising
April 29, 2014 By toddcohen49 in Fundraising Tags: AFP Foundation for Canada, Blackbaud, Hewlett and Johnston Consultants, hjc, iDoPhilanthropy, Michael Johnston, SickKids Foundation, Ted Garrard, The Next Generation of Canadian Giving, What Canadian Donors Want	Leave a comment
By Todd Cohen
[Note: This article was written for Blackbaud.]
Key to building the capacity of charities is volunteer leadership that can "ensure that the financial resources are there for the organization to deliver their programs," said Derek Fraser, chair of the AFP (Association of Fundraising Professionals) Canadian Council and president of iDoPhilanthropy in Calgary.
"As at any company, you need sales people out there doing it for you," he said. "But we don't take that view in the nonprofit sector, and we expect it to happen as if by magic. There is no magic wand."
The solution for smaller charities, he said, is to have "realistic expectations for the scope of your organization and continue to be consistent in growing and not be expected to be able to leap to the success of a large organization. Organizations can crash and burn if they try to grow too quickly or not stay true to core values and who they are and the core constituency that supports them."
Collaboration, impact
"What Canadian Donors Want," a study released in February by the AFP Foundation for Canada and market research firm Ipsos, found that three in four respondents want charities that address similar issues to look for ways to "work together and share plans and resources," Fraser said.
And it underscored the fact that "Canadians have high standards for how charities operate," he said.
A large majority of respondents, for example, believe charities should have a strategic plan, strive for rigorous standards to measure their performance, and invest in tools that show their impact on the community they serve or the cause they support, he said.
Integrated fund development
One effective strategy to address some of the fundraising challenges facing charities is to better connect fund development to programs, said Michael Johnston, founder and president of Hewitt and Johnston Consultants, a fundraising consulting firm in Toronto.
That requires charities taking the time needed to integrate their programmatic work with their fundraising strategies, he said.
An organization that counts on volunteers to mentor kids, for example, traditionally may
not have tied its work with volunteers to its work with donors.
To align those two activities and constituencies, Johnston said, an organization should pair staff who work with volunteers with staff who work with donors and show them the strategic connection between their respective jobs and clients, "because citizens don't see themselves as a volunteer or donor, they see themselves as both."
Among Canadian charities, he said, "best practices" in marketing and fund development involve "lifestyle planning for their constituents." That means working with fundraising and volunteer staff to "plot out, from cradle to grave, how to take care" of donors and volunteers, he said.
"If we don't do that in a more competitive and demanding environment, we don't build deeper relationships, and we won't move people up the donor pyramid from small gifts to ultimately larger gifts because we don't met their demands," Johnston said.
"It's all about being an intimate friend," he said. "All that gets wrapped up in investing in technology, change management, an integrated shop, and in human beings who know how to do these things."
Digital fundraising
Canadian charities are on the leading edge of using digital technology in effective and innovative ways, experts say.
"The one place where the Canadian charitable sector punches above its weight is in peer-to-peer fundraising," Johnston said.
An hjc and Blackbaud study last year, "The Next Generation of Canadian Giving," found that the number of charity fundraising events, as well as per-capita giving and participation in fundraising events, is higher in Canada than in the U.S. or U.K., he said.
Canadian charities also are recognizing that smartphones offer a "rich multimedia experience," compared to devices that simply offer a "text-to-give" option, Johnston said.
So charities are investing more in mobile technology (creating videos of client stories, for example) and in applications that let donors quickly give from their phones with a credit card or via PayPal using an application or browser, he said.
Response to postal changes
In the face of changes by Canada Post, the best practice for nonprofit marketing and fundraising is to integrate email in combination with direct mail and phone calls, Johnston said.
Fraser said "a lot of organizations are going to have to look at whether we can afford to do direct mail anymore, or replace it with online strategies."
The postal changes are "likely to drive a shift to email or online or digital fundraising."
Ted Garrard, president and CEO of the SickKids Foundation in Toronto, said he does not believe the change will have too significant an impact and that he is more concerned about the rise in postal rates.
"The mail is still getting delivered, just not to somebody's door," he said.
The good news, he said, is that the postal changes represent "a very good opportunity for charities to redirect their relationships with direct mail donors to one that is an online relationship."
Cause marketing and events
Cause marketing is growing as a fundraising strategy, as charities work with corporate partners with "brands that are well known and partnerships that can help each organization," Fraser said.
Helping to drive that strategy is "fatigue around direct mail," which "continues to be an expensive methodology to acquire donors," as well as the changes by Canada Post, he said.
And fundraising events, "even though they take a massive amount of time, are still very effective at getting new people in your door to find out about you," Fraser said.
Calgary, for example, has been having more charity events than ever, he said.
And once they get people "in the tent" at events, he said, charities can maintain relationships with them through digital strategies.
Next: SickKids Foundation invests in fundraising capacity
The series:
Part 1: State of the sector.
Part 2: Sector faces challenges.
Part 3: Volunteer leadership key to fundraising.
Part 4: SickKids Foundation invests in fundraising capacity.
Canadian charity, Part 1: State of the sector
April 16, 2014 By toddcohen49 in Fundraising Tags: AFP Foundation for Canada, Blackbaud, Canada, Chuck Longfield, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants, Imagine Canada, Ipsos, Michael Johnston, Statistics Canada, What Canadian Donors Want	Leave a comment
Overall giving in Canada grew 2.7 percent in the three months ending February 2014, compared to the same period a year earlier, while online giving for the period grew 7.2 percent, according to The Blackbaud Index – Canada.
The new Index draws from actual data from about 250 organizations that raise a total of $600 million to $700 million a year – or roughly 6 percent to 7 percent of the Canadian market.
Canadian charities with effective fundraising programs benefited from growing investment in fundraising staff and capacity, greater attention to major donors and donor loyalty, and increasing sophistication in fundraising technology and best practices, experts said.
But they said many Canadian charities face big challenges in securing the investment they need in their fundraising capacity, particularly in developing board leadership and staff expertise.
Strong finish in 2013
After experiencing relatively flat growth during the first half of 2013, overall fundraising revenue among 276 Canadian nonprofits that together raise $692.5 million a year grew 6 percent during the second half of 2013, compared to the same period a year earlier, according to the new Blackbaud Index – Canada.
Online fundraising revenue for 219 Canadian nonprofits that together raise $154.3 million a year online grew 8.9 percent, 13.6 percent, and 10.1 percent, respectively, in each of the three-month periods ending in October, November, and December, compared to the same three-month periods a year earlier.
That surge in overall giving represented a strong finish for a year in which Canadian nonprofits generally posted lower overall results for much of the year, compared to the previous year, said Chuck Longfield, chief scientist at Blackbaud.
"It does look like things are looking up in the Canadian market," he said.
Growth at year-end is especially good news, he said, because roughly a third of all charitable giving takes place in the final three months of the year, and roughly 25 percent of all giving takes place in December.
Overall giving for the three months ending in January and February grew 1 percent and 2.7 percent, respectively, compared to the same periods in 2013, while online giving grew 6.8 percent and 7.2 percent, compared to the same periods in 2013.
Sector snapshot
Canada's charitable and nonprofit sector is the second largest in the world after the U.S. and consists of roughly 170,000 organizations, split almost evenly between registered charities and nonprofits, according to Imagine Canada, an umbrella organization for Canada's charities and nonprofits.
The charitable sector employs two million Canadians and contributes an average of 7.8 percent to total gross domestic product.
Revenues from the "core" nonprofit sector – charities and nonprofits other than hospitals and universities – account for about 2.4 percent of Canada's GDP, or more than triple that of the motor vehicle industry, Imagine Canada said.
Sales of goods and services account for 45.6 percent of total income for that core nonprofit sector. In comparison, the larger nonprofit sector – including hospitals, universities, and colleges – counts on government funds for nearly 75 percent of its funding, with 72 percent of its overall funding provided by provincial governments, Imagine Canada said.
Hospitals, universities, and colleges represent only 1 percent of organizations but account for 66 percent of total revenues for the entire sector.
Sector 'mature,' 'conservative'
"Canada's charitable sector is the second-most mature in its professionalism, use of investment in technology, and best practices" after the U.S. nonprofit sector, said Michael Johnston, founder and president of Hewitt and Johnston Consultants, a fundraising consulting firm in Toronto.
From small shelters to big national charities, he said, nonprofits are "becoming more professional and leveraging technology and best practices," he said. "The sector is trying to do a more professional job, and I think it means charities are raising a bit more money."
Fundraising stability
Unlike the economies and charitable sectors in the U.S. and U.K., which slumped after the capital markets collapsed in 2008 and only recently have begun to rebound, the economy and charitable sector in Canada have held relatively steady, Johnston said.
That's because, unlike the economies in the U.S. and U.K., the economy in Canada is based on commodities such as oil, gas, and diamonds that limited the damage of the recession, and because its banks are highly conservative, he said.
"That translates to the charitable sector," he said. "It's a very kind of stand-pat, very conservative, cautious sector, so we don't see the kind of growth or rebound because everything is ticking along at a slow, conservative rate."
Government cuts
With government in Canada getting smaller, Johnston said, nonprofits are looking to private support for a growing share of their funding.
"Canadian charities, a lot of them historically, have received large proportions of revenue from state sources, and that's shrinking," he said. "It means a competitive fundraising environment will become more intense with less government support as individuals become more and more important."
What donors want
A study released in February by the AFP Foundation for Canada and market research firm Ipsos entitled "What Canadian Donors Want" finds a "high degree of confidence in charities."
But it also said charities would be "well served" to make it clear they are "well managed and have the resources, competence and capacity to carry out their mission and plans."
The study said arts groups may have "the longest road to travel to improve presence of mind and share of wallet;" that people increasingly give to fewer charities, with a plurality – the biggest single group – giving to two to three charities; and that charities should ask for bigger gifts and take a hard look at how frequently they ask for donations.
Next: Sector faces challenges
Giving grows overall and to religion
December 3, 2013 By toddcohen49 in Fundraising, Giving, Religion, Research Tags: Blackbaud, Chris McLeod, Chuck Longfield, Dunham+Company, Giving Matters, Horizons Stewardship Co., Rick Dunham	Leave a comment
Overall charitable giving grew 2.3 percent for the three months ended in October 2013, compared to the same period a year earlier, according to data from 3,828 charities that raised over $12 billion in the prior 12 months, The Blackbaud Index reports.
And among 3,097 charities that raised nearly $1.7 billion online in the prior 12 months, online giving grew 9.9 percent in the same three-month period, compared to the same period a year earlier.
"It's a better year than we've had in a number of years," says Chuck Longfield, chief scientist at Blackbaud and creator of the Index. "Giving is very dependent on the stock market, which is at an all-time high. With an improving economy, some of the uncertainty has been removed. People tend to give away more money when they feel wealthier, and the stock market helps with that."
Revenue to faith-based groups grows overall and online
Overall fundraising revenue for 334 churches, synagogues and other faith-based organizations representing nearly $1.2 billion in annual revenue grew 3.5 percent in the three months ended in October 2013, compared to the same period a year earlier, according to a new Blackbaud Index that tracks giving to religion.
Online giving at 202 congregations and other faith-based groups that raised a total of over $110 million over 12 months grew 16.7 percent during the same period.
Faith-based giving grows but its share of overall giving dips
After flat years in 2011 and 2012, giving to religion has grown slightly in 2013, according to Giving USA. And while it receives the biggest share of giving of any charitable subsector, its share in 2012 fell to 32 percent from 33 percent in 2011.
"If faith-based giving doesn't do well, that's quite a drag on all philanthropy," Longfield says.
Rick Dunham, president and CEO of Dunham+Company, a consultant to faith-based groups, says giving to his clients is up, with growth ranging from a few percentage points to 10 percent or more.
Who's giving to religion?
While research consistently has shown a steady decline in attendance by younger people at religious services, especially for mainline denominations, that decline has had little impact on overall giving to religion, says Dunham, a member of the board of the Giving Institute, which publishes Giving USA.
"We've known for many years, and Giving USA has pointed out consistently, that there is a direct correlation of frequency in attendance at religious services and giving," he says. Giving to religion fell during the recession mainly because, just as in any sector, people who give were hit by the economic downturn and had less to give.
And religion has struggled to rebound "because fewer people are attending religious services frequently and there is a smaller core of givers," he says.
But with the rebound in the economy, that core group "continues to drive giving to religion because the core group who attend religious services frequently are giving," he says. "Those are people who give the most."
And the major source of giving to religion "continues to be the 'classic 50-to-65-year-old' who is at a stage in life with more money to give."
Failure to communicate
Chris McLeod, a ministry strategist who advises churches on capital campaigns and planned giving for Horizons Stewardship Co., a national consulting firm in Cabot, Ark., says churches are losing market share of giving to faith-based groups overall.
"The failure of churches to effectively communicate the impact that their mission and outreach programs are having in the community has often left many of their members choosing to give directly to these community-based nonprofits," she says. "So less of their charitable dollars are being channeled through the church."
Churches, she says, "don't know how to say thank you, they don't know how to ask, and they don't know how to communicate the impact that a member's gift is having."
Churches in mainline denominations also tend to have "very weak communications infrastructure," as well as young communications staff "who are more like newsletter producers, as opposed to communications strategists," says McLeod, who also is president of Giving Matters, a fundraising consulting firm in Charlotte, N.C., that advises nonprofits and educational institutions.
In comparison, new "megachurches" and nondenominational independent churches "are investing more money and human resources in communications because they realize how critical it is," she says. "If you look at giving at megachurches and independent churches, it's significant, both in terms of giving by the church in the community, and inspiring their members to make significant gifts to the church."
If a church in a mainline denomination supports a homeless shelter for an urban ministry, for example, but does not do a good job communicating that work to its members, McLeod says, their members in turn might give directly to the urban ministry rather than to the church.
Megachurches and nondenominational churches also are much more sophisticated than mainline churches in using digital communications and direct mail, she says, and at "saying thank you, communicating impact and asking," and are particularly good at cultivating larger donors.
Mainline churches "don't cultivate," often because they lack the staff, and typically because "they have a lot of angst and discomfort around money," McLeod says.
Research shows that in more than half of mainline churches, for example, the senior minister or CEO does not know how much church members give because "they feel it would unfairly impact the way they minister to members if they knew what they gave," she says.
As a result, the people "who are accorded the most respect or deference in churches are the people who are wealthy," whether or not they are donors, she says.
A key issue, she says, is that "how much people give to a church, not so much the dollar amount, but the percentage of giving, is a reflection of where they are on their spiritual journey. If people call themselves Christian, or Jewish, giving is integral to their spiritual journey."
Sending the right message
Dunham says houses of worship need to provide "cogent, clear teaching on the Biblical mandate around giving and why that's important."
While the Bible makes clear statements about debt and the handling of money, warning, for example, that "money will never provide the security you're looking for," he says, there still is a "tension between consumerism, which is primarily the cultural norm in America and drives our economy, and stewardship."
So it is "incumbent on pastors and leaders to be speaking to the issue of how we view money and the role of money in our life as a faith-based person," he says.
"Ultimately, people give out of a heart that's moved to want to support something," he says. "It's not an insignificant issue. There has been a lack of teaching of this in the church."
Church leaders also need to help people understand "what they're investing in" when they give to the church, and that means "selling the vision and mission of that house of worship, why we exist," and then "putting numbers to why that's important."
Shift to online giving
Religious congregations also need to recognize a shift that is "not driven by charitable institutions" but rather by "the consumer, the donors, to want to give more and more online," Dunham says.
A study released this fall by Dunham+Company found, for example, that nearly one in two donors age 65 and older now give through charity websites, up from roughly one in three in 2010.
"As the trailing end of the Boomer generation moves to its best giving years, and also the leading edge of Generation X, more and more want to give via credit cards, and are very comfortable with online transactions," Dunham says. "It's providing a way for congregations to give effectively online and not just by the plate being passed."
So congregations need a "really good website that makes it very easy for that financial transaction that even could set up a recurring gift," he says.
Value of direct mail
The study also found that direct mail appeals are over six times more likely than an online communication to drive an online gift, Dunham says.
"Offline communication becomes very critical to supporting donors, engaging donors, keeping them engaged," he says, so congregations need to make sure their offline communications are integrated with their online communications, with their website in sync with those communications.
Relationships and significant giving
A growing number of religious organizations are investing more resources in planned giving and major giving, a trend that makes sense because the wealth that has grown the most, fueled by the booming stock market, is controlled by the wealthiest 3 percent of the population, Dunham says.
"Being able to tap that is critical," he says.
Making a significant decision about a big gift ultimately is "very personal" and rooted in "relationship," he says. "That is the apex of relationship fundraising, building a strong relationship with the donor so you can understand what their priorities are and so you can meet their priorities."
Focus on donors
Rather than focusing on the vision of the organization, Dunham says, congregations and other faith-based groups should be "seeing the vision of the donor and seeing how you can help the donor fulfill their vision."
McLeod agrees.
Churches "need to be communicating to their members about how their gifts and pledges are changing lives in the community," she says. "They need to be talking about legacy giving or planned giving because churches are letting their members make their largest gift to colleges and universities because the church is not asking for it."
Investing in communications
A key is for churches to invest in their communications infrastructure, McLeod says.
"Most people — senior pastors, lay leaders and church administrators — see communications as overhead, when it's a pipeline to additional charitable revenue," she says. "If you're not communicating, you're not connecting. People want to feel their gift matters."
The "desire to make a difference is practically universal, regardless of faith tradition," she says, "and when a church doesn't communicate to a member that their gift makes a difference, they give to organizations that help them understand how their gift is making a difference."
Cultivating donors
While churches may lack the resources to hire major gift officers, they still can invest in the critical work of cultivating donors, McLeod says.
"The invitation to give, and communicating that their gift makes a difference, is really at the heart of what makes people give more," she says. "How are they invited to give, and how do they know their gift makes a difference?"
Older Baby Boomers and the even older Greatest Generation "are making legacy gifts, they're just not making them to the church," she says.
One reason churches may not be getting donations from young people is that they may not be equipped to accept gifts electronically, which is the way young people like to give, McLeod says.
"The most dangerous thing about that," she says, "is that they don't get into the habit of giving to the church."
Importance of online giving
A study on online giving and the donor experience online that Dunham+Company is scheduled release in January finds that "generally everybody's looking pretty bad," Dunham says, with "Christian ministries ranked lower in the main indicators."
The reason was a "fundamental lack of understanding of the importance of online giving," he says.
The study finds, for example, that a donor who wants to make a gift often must make seven or eight clicks at a charity website to complete a gift transaction.
As part of the study, which looks at the actual behavior of 151 organizations, Dunham+Company made an online donation to every charity surveyed, and watched what they did.
One-third of the charities never even responded, he says.
"There's a fundamental lack of understanding of best practices around the online giving experience," he says. "Giving to religion, especially to houses of worship, is way behind, and Christian ministries lag as well. They don't understand or implement best practices about how to motivate online support and how to make it easy for people to actually give online."
Boomers at top in charitable giving
August 21, 2013 By toddcohen49 in Giving Tags: Blackbaud, Edge Research, Next Generation of American Giving, Target Analytics	Leave a comment
Baby Boomers, the generation born from 1946 to 1964, account for 43 percent of charitable giving in the U.S., more than that of any other generation, and will dominate charitable giving for the foreseeable future, a new study says.
Seventy-two percent of Boomers, or 51 million donors ages 49 to 67 in 2013, give to charity, supporting 4.5 charities on average and making an annual gift that averages $1,212, says the study, Next Generation of American Giving.
The study, commissioned by Blackbaud and based on an online survey of 1,014 U.S. donors conducted by Edge Research, also found that while most Americans give, overall giving remains flat.
Eighty-eight percent of "Matures," or those age 68 or older this year, and 60 percent of "Gen X" and "Gen Y", or those age 33 to 48, and 18 to 32, respectively, give to charity, the study says.
But 59 percent of donors say the amount they give, and 70 percent of donors say the number of charities they give to, will remain the same in the future.
Nearly 60 percent of Gen Y identified the ability to directly see the impact of their donation as a critical part of their decision process, the survey says, a concern that declines with each older generation, the survey says.
The biggest share of donors across all generations supports social service charities, houses of worship, and health organizations, the survey says.
Gen Y is least likely to support local social services, it says, while Gen X and Gen Y are more likely to support children's charities; Boomers and Matures are more likely to support veterans' causes; Gen Y is less likely to support environmental causes; and Gen X and Gen Y are more likely to support human rights and international causes.
Nearly half of Boomers and Matures but only 36 of Gen X and 25 percent of Gen Y believe monetary donations make the biggest difference.
Online giving continues to grow in importance and prominence, with 42 percent of Boomers reporting they give online as their primary method and 40 percent preferring to give through direct mail.
"For the first time, we are seeing a different generation emerge as the torchbearer of giving," Dennis McCarthy, vice president of strategy for Target Analytics, a division of Blackbaud, says in a statement. "This really signals a strong shift is needed in the way nonprofits think about supporter engagement."
Fundraising, Part 1: Revenue dips for healthcare, medical research
June 5, 2013 By toddcohen49 in Fundraising Tags: Blackbaud	Leave a comment
[Note: This article, the first of three, is from a report written for Blackbaud, which asked me to look at fundraising strategies that nonprofits have found to be effective.]
Fundraising revenue overall for hospitals and other health care facilities fell 1.7 percent in the three months ended April 30, compared to the same period a year earlier, while fundraising revenue for medical research organizations fell 5.9 percent, according to new new giving indexes released by Blackbaud.
While they both declined in the most recent period compared to a year ago, fundraising patterns over the past year tracked by the Healthcare Index and Medical Research Index differed markedly from one another.
The Healthcare Index is based on annual fundraising revenue totaling nearly $1.72 billion at 483 hospitals and other care facilities, while the Medical Research Index is based on annual fundraising revenue totaling $563 million at 103 medical research organizations. In the past, data the two indexes track were combined and known as the Health Index.
Mixed results
Fundraising revenue at hospitals and other care facilities fell in every three-month period ending in April, May, June, July and August 2012, and then grew in every three month period ending in September, October, November and December 2012, and in January, February and March 2013.
In comparison, fundraising revenue at medical research organizations fell in every three-month period ending in April, May, July, August, November and December 2012 and in January 2013, while growing in the three-month periods ending in June, September and October 2012, and in February and March 2013.
"The trends differ largely due to the type of fundraising these organizations do," says Chuck Longfield, senior vice president and chief scientists at Blackbaud. "Hospitals tend to do a lot of major gift fundraising. Research organizations tend to do a lot of direct marketing and events, which is evident in the results."
For medical research organizations, "times are tough," he says. "There's a lot of pressure on these organizations. Direct marketing and direct mail strategies, for example, have seen increasing competition. A lot of people who support these organizations support others."
At hospitals and other care facilities, however, after declining through much of 2012, he says, fundraising revenue grew through the latter part of the year and the early part of 2013, increases he attributed in part to a rebound in the stock market.
"Major gift fundraising is far more dependent on the stock market," he says. "When people are feeling confident in their investments, and they have the resources, they're much more generous with big gifts."
Online giving for hospitals, research
Online giving at 503 hospitals and other care facilities that raised a total of nearly $154.5 million over 12 months, grew 11.7 percent in the three months ended April 30, 2013, compared to the same period a year earlier, while online giving at 242 medical research organizations that raised a total of nearly $475.5 million over 12 months, grew 1.9 percent in the three-month period, compared to the same period a year earlier.
Overall giving
Among 3,265 charities that raised nearly $11.59 billion over 12 months in all fields of interest that Blackbaud tracks in its overall Giving Index, fundraising revenue grew 0.4 percent in the three months ended April 30, compared to the same period a year earlier.
And among 2,753 charities that raised over $1.59 billion online over 12 months in all fields of interest that Blackbaud tracks its overall Online Index, online giving grew 10.1 percent in the three-month period, compared to the same period a year earlier.
Next: Investment in capacity pays off
Part 1: Revenue dips for healthcare, medical research
Part 2: Investment in capacity pays off
Part 3: Focusing on growth from special events
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Ernest Merrill may be the most photographed man in early Harrison history
Posted Thursday, November 15, 2018 6:43 pm
by Angela Kellogg
Ernest Merrill may be the most photographed man in early Harrison history. Viewing so many photos of Harrison it became easy to spot Ernest Merrill in each photograph. The same jaunty hat, side posture and every so slight smirk was instantly recognizable. He appears in some photographs so removed from the scene that if there was Photoshop in the early 1900's it may have been used to plop him in the back ground. This became a fun hide and seek as Cody Beemer and myself began to write and edit the book Harrison, published in 2014.
Imagine my surprise one day running across a wedding announcement of Ernest's daughter Beverly. I see Bev on a regular basis at the library and the Trowbridge family has donated many historical items to the Library.
Ernest was born in Meredith, Michigan to John and Emma Merrill. John was a rail road man and his sons Charlie and Ernest followed in his footsteps. Ernest attended Harrison schools and went to work at a young age. He may have worked at the Heading mill in Harrison as he is featured in several photographs and we know he went on to work for the Flint and Pere Marquette R.R.
In 1923 Ernest's brother Charles Merrill was killed in a railroad accident. A Pere Marquette R.R. passenger train derailed and overturned near Midland and killed Charlie and the engineer of the train Thomas Kelley of Saginaw. Kelley died at the scene and Charlie Merrill died on the train taking him to the Saginaw hospital after he had received treatment at the Dow hospital in Midland. The official cause of death on his death certificate is "nervous shock due to scalding in R.R. accident."
Charles was already a widower having lost his young wife just three years before in 1920. Charles was buried with his wife in Saint Henry's Catholic Church Cemetery in Isabella County.
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Angela Kellogg
Angela and her family recently acquired the newspaper in 2017 from the Bucholz family. Angela is a local historian, author, librarian and long-time Harrison resident.
You can reach Angela at:
editor@clarecountycleaver.net

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Dar Al Amal
Dar Al Amal aims to be a house of hope for the underprivileged in Lebanon and works to safeguard women's and children's rights.
Dar Al Amal aims to be a house of hope as its name implies for the underprivileged in Lebanon, working since its establishment in in 1970 on safeguarding women's and children's rights.
Dar Al Amal is funded entirely through grants, donations and fundraising events. It welcomes women who are subject to forced prostitution, violence and mistreatment, social marginalisation and exclusion, or are in conflict with the law. It supports them to re-establish their dignity and prepares them for social reintegration after providing them with opportunities for skills development and psychological support.
It also takes care of children living in difficult familial and social life conditions, and supports them to achieve their life dreams and goals while trying to save them from forced child labour and sexual exploitation.
Dar Al Amal helps hundreds of beneficiaries each year. Children at risk come from poor and dislocated families living in extremely harsh conditions. They are helped to develop a life vision and project. The work includes interactive plays, and involves parents and communities to achieve positive changes in their environments.
Two prevention and protection centres help children at risk in Nabaa and Sabra, two underprivileged suburbs where poor Lebanese and refugees live. Summer camps provide opportunities to empower children and entertain them as well. Several programs are implemented to fight forced child labor.
The "Parents Deal" programme aims to establish a mutually supportive environment for parents and caregivers to address the challenges they face bringing up their children. Parents and caregivers can improve their knowledge of child development and well being, find solutions together for challenges they face, and enhance their ability to care for their children in a practical and relevant way.
The women and young girls who are victims of violence live in equally hard situations. They are offered support and help in order to achieve social rehabilitation. Others are saved from forced prostitution and guided to find counselling and a decent living. They enroll in literacy sessions and receive legal assistance, medical and psychological support, and vocational training. They are all welcome at a social rehabilitation centre in Sin El Fil.
Dar Al Amal also supports social rehabilitation and reintegration work with imprisoned women and those released from the three women prisons in Baabda, Tripoli and Zahle. It works with lawyers and legal associations on amending some laws to make the lives of inmates easier when back in society. It sometimes pays the bills of women and follows them after release in the rehabilitation centre, co-operates with authorities on providing better food and health care for prisoners as well as children living with imprisoned mothers. It also works with other organizations to fight human trafficking and early forced marriages for girls.
Behind bars, prisoners get certified training on decoration, waitressing, hairstyling and beauty techniques that would help them find a job once free again. They also receive information on their rights as inmates and women that might be facing gender based violence. Occasionally Dar Al Amal, with the help of the municipality of Zahle, organises income generating exhibitions of handmade products of inmates. Similar events are held in Beirut during the wholly month of Ramadan.
In coordination with authorities, Dar Al Amal introduced The Prison Yoga sessions to bring mindfulness, meditation, and physical release to 45 prisoners in Baabda prison.
One of the success stories of Dar Al Amal is that of Hanaa. She was a young prisoner in Baabda facility. She was helped to study and apply for the official exams to get a high school certificate. It was an unusual surrounding to study and perform exams, inside a cell, yet she succeeded and then she enrolled in the Lebanese University. and she planned to have a degree when it is time for her to end her term.
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He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished.
For the last 5 years, the in-house design team at the Faithlife Corporation has illustrated one Bible verse every day. This art has found its way onto t-shirts, magnets, and postcards—and now, a beautiful picture book. In print for the first time, art from Faithlife's Verse of the Day series paired with uplifting devotionals will encourage and inspire you. Bible Verse Wall Art
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ... Christian Canvas Art
"If you happen to come upon a bird's nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days. Christian Canvas Art
He measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court. The thresholds, the latticed windows and the galleries round about their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.read more. Share Your Faith Products
"You shall have no other gods before Me. "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,read more. Christian Gifts
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."
This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died. ... Christian Gifts
And Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Christian Canvas Art
Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men. But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation. Thus shall you say to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens." Christian Gifts
He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference. Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths. Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits. This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames, and on the borders which were between the frames were lions, oxen and cherubim; and on the frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round. The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast. Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around. He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD: the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands; and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertained. Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. Thus all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD. Christian Canvas Art
Every home is so much more than just walls and windows. Home is the place where we live, laugh, and love. It's an expression of who we are and what we believe. That's why we are committed to providing beautiful Christian art and inspirational home décor. Our passion is helping you create a place that reflects your faith and enables you to share it with others. So discover new ways to share your heart and God's love today!
It was carved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, a man's face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around. From the ground to above the entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, as well as on the wall of the nave. The doorposts of the nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other. The altar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood And he said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD." The nave and the sanctuary each had a double door. Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. Also there were carved on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside. There were latticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; thus were the side chambers of the house and the thresholds. Bible Verse Wall Art
Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. ... Christian Canvas Art
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken." ... Share Your Faith Products
Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around.read more. Christian Canvas Art
Since the advent of printing, the sale of reproductions of pious works has been a major element of popular Christian culture. In the 19th century, this included genre painters such as Mihály Munkácsy. The invention of color lithography led to broad circulation of holy cards. In the modern era, companies specializing in modern commercial Christian artists such as Thomas Blackshear and Thomas Kinkade, although widely regarded in the fine art world as kitsch,[4] have been very successful.
During the development of Christian art in the Byzantine Empire (see Byzantine art), a more abstract aesthetic replaced the naturalism previously established in Hellenistic art. This new style was hieratic, meaning its primary purpose was to convey religious meaning rather than accurately render objects and people. Realistic perspective, proportions, light and color were ignored in favor of geometric simplification of forms, reverse perspective and standardized conventions to portray individuals and events. The controversy over the use of graven images, the interpretation of the Second Commandment, and the crisis of Byzantine Iconoclasm led to a standardization of religious imagery within the Eastern Orthodoxy. Christian Gifts
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Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men. But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation. Thus shall you say to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens."
Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. ... Share Your Faith Products
"If you happen to come upon a bird's nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days. Christian Gifts
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. In Judah God is known; his name is great in Israel. His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion. There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah Glorious are you, more majestic than the mountains of prey. The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands. ...
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19 designers and 31 writers invested their energy and creativity to this collection, each riffing on the timeless, inspired words of Scripture. Each designer worked hard to capture the essence of each verse in its historical and cultural context, and to design in a way that makes clear the way in which the original readers would have understood it. Then, after each design was complete, a writer reflected on each piece of art and the verse that inspired it. The result is 100 pairs of art and devotional that illuminate the words of Scripture.
And Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
We are faced with a startling opportunity. We may think that we can't walk this Christian path, but Peter tells us that we have all of the resources that we need in his "very great and precious promises". When our circumstances cause insecurities and thoughts of despair to dance around our minds, God gives us a way out. We can escape this corruption by knowing God through Jesus Christ. How can we know God? By taking Him at His word! God has already provided for us and He is looking for people who will have the courage to replace their current thinking with God's faithfulness. Are you looking for the thoughts of God? The Bible is God's life support to us as we encounter a world of difficulty. Bible Verse Wall Art


The WlanRegisterNotification function is used to register and unregister notifications on all wireless interfaces.
The client's session handle, obtained by a previous call to the WlanOpenHandle function.
The notification sources to be registered. These flags may be combined. When this parameter is set to WLAN_NOTIFICATION_SOURCE_NONE, WlanRegisterNotification unregisters notifications on all wireless interfaces.
The possible values for this parameter are defined in the Wlanapi.h and L2cmn.h header files.
The following table shows possible values.
Registers for all notifications available on the version of the operating system, including those generated by the 802.1X module.
For Windows XP with SP3 and Wireless LAN API for Windows XP with SP2, setting dwNotifSource to WLAN_NOTIFICATION_SOURCE_ALL is functionally equivalent to setting dwNotifSource to WLAN_NOTIFICATION_SOURCE_ACM.
Registers for notifications generated by the auto configuration module.
Windows XP with SP3 and Wireless LAN API for Windows XP with SP2: Only the wlan_notification_acm_connection_complete and wlan_notification_acm_disconnected notifications are available.
Registers for notifications generated by the wireless Hosted Network. This notification source is available on Windows 7 and on Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Wireless LAN Service installed.
Registers for notifications generated by 802.1X.
Registers for notifications generated by MSM.
Windows XP with SP3 and Wireless LAN API for Windows XP with SP2: This value is not supported.
Registers for notifications generated by the security module.
No notifications are currently defined for WLAN_NOTIFICATION_SOURCE_SECURITY.
Registers for notifications generated by independent hardware vendors (IHV).
Windows XP with SP3 and Wireless LAN API for Windows XP with SP2: This parameter must be set to WLAN_NOTIFICATION_SOURCE_NONE, WLAN_NOTIFICATION_SOURCE_ALL, or WLAN_NOTIFICATION_SOURCE_ACM.
Specifies whether duplicate notifications will be ignored. If set to TRUE, a notification will not be sent to the client if it is identical to the previous one.
Windows XP with SP3 and Wireless LAN API for Windows XP with SP2: This parameter is ignored.
A WLAN_NOTIFICATION_CALLBACK type that defines the type of notification callback function.
A pointer to the client context that will be passed to the callback function with the notification.
Reserved for future use. Must be set to NULL.
A pointer to the previously registered notification sources.
A parameter is incorrect. This error is returned if hClientHandle is NULL or not valid or if pReserved is not NULL.
The handle hClientHandle was not found in the handle table.
Failed to allocate memory for the query results.
The WlanRegisterNotification is used by an application to register and unregister notifications on all wireless interfaces. When registering for notifications, an application must provide a callback function pointed to by the funcCallback parameter. The prototype for this callback function is the WLAN_NOTIFICATION_CALLBACK. This callback function will receive notifications that have been registered for in the dwNotifSource parameter passed to the WlanRegisterNotification function. The callback function is called with a pointer to a WLAN_NOTIFICATION_DATA structure as the first parameter that contains detailed information on the notification. The callback function also receives a second parameter that contains a pointer to the client context passed in the pCallbackContext parameter to the WlanRegisterNotification function.
The WlanRegisterNotification function will return an error if dwNotifSource is a value other than WLAN_NOTIFICATION_SOURCE_NONE and the client fails to provide a callback function.
Once registered, the callback function will be called whenever a notification is available until the client unregisters or closes the handle.
Any registration to receive notifications caused by this function would be automatically undone if the calling application closes its calling handle (by calling WlanCloseHandle with the hClientHandle parameter) or if the process ends.
Do not call WlanRegisterNotification from a callback function. If the client is in the middle of a notification callback when WlanRegisterNotification is called with dwNotifSource set to WLAN_NOTIFICATION_SOURCE_NONE (that is, when the client is unregistering from notifications), WlanRegisterNotification will wait for the callback to finish before returning a value. Calling this function inside a callback function will result in the call never completing. If both the callback function and the thread that unregisters from notifications try to acquire the same lock, a deadlock may occur. In addition, do not call WlanRegisterNotification from the DllMain function in an application DLL. This could also cause a deadlock.
An application can time out and query the current interface state instead of waiting for a notification.
Windows XP with SP3 and Wireless LAN API for Windows XP with SP2: Notifications are handled by the Netman service. If the Netman service is disabled or unavailable, notifications will not be received. If a notification is not received within a reasonable period of time, an application should time out and query the current interface state.


Just want to share some photos I took at the show.
From left to right, Lc. Miss Wonderful, L. pumila 'Whiz', Lc. Elegans var. sanguinea 'Santa Barbara' AM/AOS , Rossioglossum grande.
Rhycovanda opps swee (I just copied what was written on the tag), unknown Neo.
Awesome shots of some stunningly beautiful orchids! I especially love the yellow slipper orchid in post #5.
Thanks for sharing the pics Marissa. Liked the white flowered epi and theDtps 'five color' best.


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Ellawrites
Blogger, poetess, storyteller. I write more; from my experience.
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Topics: Justwrite, My blog for today, read.cash, Writings, Saying sorry
When I was still in the game of teaching, there's something my scholars always did.
Anytime one offends another, he or she quickly says "sorry" before the offended person even comes to report.
The offended person: Miss, Bella pinched me.
Me: Bella why did you pinch her?.
Bella: Miss, I've told her sorry
(That wasn't really straightforward, I just used that scenario to summarize so many instances).
In the aforementioned scenario, after analyzing and seeing that the case is not too delicate, I always face the offended person to tell him/her this:
But she said sorry.
...is a two syllabic word with five letters, one vowel, two repeated consonants, an s and a y; which are also consonants.
As harmless as the word "sorry" actually is, it can also be counted as the hardest word to say especially when your ego dwells in you.
What if you are actually the one who is right and the other person actually refuses to accept his/her fault?
I'm guilty as charged when it comes to the aforementioned.
I despise saying sorry when I know I'm actually right, even if saying sorry is capable of preventing more quarrels or fights.
There was a day my mum and I were having issues, she was terribly pissed off and kept sending me hateful text messages.
A part of me kept telling me to just say "I'm sorry" and let the matter die down once and for all.
No, how can i?, She's the one who's wrong, so I kept replying back, I noticed her text messages were getting worse with my replies. Her words were getting unreadable, there were errors in her words. (For people like my mum, one can read and understand how extreme her anger is, through the way she types her words).
I felt this and finally said: "I'm sorry mum."
She suddenly stopped sending those messages, and everything was back to normal.
My mind pushed me further to still put a call through; which I did. I called to repeat my apologies and the peace I felt after doing that cannot be explained.
I had a sound sleep on that very day.
Saying "Sorry" stops more words from being uttered.
A person who's angry and keeps shouting at you, blaming you and hurling hurtful words at you can be kept shut just by the word "Sorry"
Sometimes I'll be really angry with someone, I'll keep talking and talking and would even have more words to say...
But once the person says "Sorry"
I usually feel pained...
Why?...
Because I can't say all I want to say anymore.
Because I suddenly have to keep quiet.
Because as little as the word "Sorry" is, it has been able to shut me from hurling out more words, leaving me no other option than to bury the other words waiting to burst out; in and just accept the fact that I've been apologized to, so there's nothing more for me to say.
Sorry saves you from being punished.
Just like the initial story I wrote, Sorry saved the offender from being punished.
When I was younger, sorry spared me from more lashes of cane. My dad might be spanking me continuously but once I say "sorry" he stops immediately.
Although, when he noticed I started repeating the same mistakes and would jump at saying sorry at the slightest whip, he kinda stopped adhering to my pleas and would still lash out some strokes even after I've said "I'm sorry."
But yes! It sometimes save you from being punished.
Sorry does alot more than we can actually imagine, if only we learn how to make use of it.
There's a reason why "sorry" is part of the five magic words.
Sorry heals.
In rare cases, sorry is capable of stopping a fight from escalating into murder.
Sorry brings peace.
Sorry sometimes bring and end to malice and bitterness.
Sorry can also be seen as a sign of humility.
It does alot, we just need to see and understand that Saying sorry doesn't remove anything from our body.
Okay, let's talk about what inspired this article:
It was on the naming ceremony day of their child, people were there to celebrate with them. Workers from the wife's place of work, workers from the husband's place of work and church members were all present.
There was no spoon anymore and the wife couldn't give her boss a plastic spoon, she had to meet with one of the church members to collect an iron spoon from him; exchanging it with a plastic spoon, the man obviously didn't take this to heart but her husband who was watching as the scene unfolded was angered in his spirit.
He bellowed:
Why would you collect the church member's spoon all because you want to give it to your boss?!!!
There was nothing wrong with what the wife did, the church member too never complained, so the husband's rants really got the wife pissed off.
The wife's mother had told her.
Just tell him Sorry, so this issue can die down.
But no, she wasn't wrong after all, she totally refused to obey.
Why would I tell him Sorry when he's the one who's wrong!? No mama, I can't tell him Sorry.
The issue escalated into something else. Even after the naming ceremony, this man kept beating his wife all because of that trivial act.
The wife's mother who was still around; being the period when she was to stay and assist her daughter with taking care of her newly born child; couldn't bear it anymore.
She kept crying and begging her son-in-law not to kill her daughter.
This so called son in-law got infuriated by this and added his mother-in-law to the picture. He beat his wife and included her mother.
The mother couldn't take it anymore, she couldn't stay anymore and decided to leave, she wanted to go with her daughter and her grandchild, but the daughter was too wounded to walk, the mother had to leave without them.
The Man was far from being right. From this story, you'll see that his head is mentally not correct. For a man to lay his hands on his wife and also lay his hands on his own mother-in-law... Now that's something else.
I still feel, if the wife had said sorry back then, the issue would never had escalated to that extent.
P.S: This story isn't fictional, I heard it from the horse's mouth.
Let's not allow our pride and egoism to disrupt some good things from coming our way. Let's also not allow it to bring some bad things our way.
Till we meet again in my next article and in yours.
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CryptoMan4
Sorry is a very simple and short word, it can be easily read but it is very difficult to say. Saying it to someone especially to those special someone is so difficult and will take a strong person to utter those words. You're right that this word can make wonders in our life because it heals and it can fix any broken relationship. Lets be brave to accept our mistakes and be humble enough to say sorry.
JenThoughts
The word sorry is small but has capacity to quench a burning house. I remember when I had little misunderstanding with my boss's wife some years ago. I was right and she was right too. Lol🤣. So we decided not to come to terms with each other untill my boss stepped in to the issue. Well, I was the younger one and "older" People see it as they are right always... I had to meet her some day and apologized and you know what, she was happy too to the extent that she recharged my phone.
Although something may look tough to say SORRY, but trust me, it makes the mind to be at peace💯
Kacy01
The word sorry does carry a lot of power and precision to it, but for me it doesn't mean much at least when people say it to me it hardly means much especially when I know their actions are intentional. Lovely article by the way. And yeah a lot of things would be sorted if people just learn to apologize more and keep their ego aside.
el-flame
Wow! What an informative and inspiring Article. I am the type of person who always accept my mistake and say sorry. Secondly, sometimes if it is not my fault yet, I say sorry because my siblings the people I love are much more important for me than my ego. So, I bow my head infront of relationships
Rafflesia.9.May
I'm that kind of person, always the first to say sorry, I don't like people that can't accept their fault and finds it hard to say sorry..
FashTioluwa
As small as the word "SORRY" is, it's a very powerful word that can restore back a whole nation. It shouldn't leave our mouths anyway anytime cos it's expected.
Gaftekloriginal
I l'm one of the people who refuse to say sorry when I'm right even though I say sorry a lot even if it wasn't necessary, now I will swallow my pride and send a word sorry to my friend to end the dispute between us I will consider your article as a sign and send sorry to solve the issue
My dear Ella, you said very nice about the word "Sorry". This word has tremendous energy, and it has many meanings. When we say "I'm sorry" with this we brings peace with ourselves, we end to malice and bitterness, we heal, and we show our humility...
Ellen.he
This sorry works differently for me o. When I am furious, I will be quiet and secluded, and at that moment, it is best you leave me be. I will calm down myself, and you'll know, that is when your sorry will have any effect. But, if you tell me sorry that moment I am quiet, you fit cause wahala o.
Aimure
Saying sorry isn't enough if there is material damage caused by incidence you have to pay what you damage by error.
All that you're talking about sorry is really true. Sorry can bring peace, it's takes away anger. But people's do not want to use it when they suppose to use it until when the old issues escalate to something else..
Fairguy
to say sorry before the person you did wrong is good because that means you meant it so much.
Dennnis
The word sorry is often used by other people when he feels that the person is more important than him, it means a tendency to someone who is higher or respected and some say sorry because he is someone who is humble and does not want to make bigger mistakes in other people.
reanbooks
I think we have the same attitude maybe because we share the same birthdate. I also say "I'm sorry" because I don't want to prolong the matter. I say sorry even when I'm right. It's just for peace to reign and nothing else.
Bisolammy