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Your CFO: What Are the Social Obligations Around Your Charitable Donations?

Cancer is a cause that hits close to home for Silk Espresso owner, Leah McMahon. In the ten years that she’s been in business, Leah has created a family of loyal, caring customers who share their lives with her each day over a steaming cup of coffee. So in 2008, when long-time customer and friend […]

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Gary Davis of Operation Nightwatch on Creating Community for Those Who Need It Most

Operation Nightwatch is a non-sectarian night ministry providing hospitality to promote dignity and community among the neediest populations in the greater Portland, OR area. One of the only service organizations open at night, Nightwatch provides shelter, food, and health care to the homeless and those who need extra support to survive. Called “the poor person’s Starbucks,” Nightwatch

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It’s Not About You: Success is Better Based on Service Than Happiness

The combination of photo cards and social media make the holidays a time for our friends’ and families’ highlight reels to be writ large. Everywhere we turn, we encounter Instagrammed engagement scenes, tableaux of sparkly 2016 glasses and champagne flutes, and Christmas letters enumerating accomplishments. Facebook tells us that our friends are feeling “blessed.” We

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