Photo Credit: Firefly Image Works

I love asking people for money. Let me rephrase; I love asking people to invest in causes that matter with resources that make a difference. Over the last several years, I’ve solicited friends and families with passionate pleas to give their dollars towards various social justice projects: from providing heart transplants for orphaned infants in China to building wells for clean water across Africa. In the last couple of years, I’ve become particularly involved with a non-profit organization serving abandoned and impoverished children in Kenya. The organization, Many Hopes, possesses a mission to educate, nurture and empower children who have suffered injustice so that they may be cultivated to become just and compassionate leaders in their communities and even country one day. Many Hopes’ vision is marked by long-term impact and patient investment with the acknowledgement that true transformation takes time and consistent involvement. In our contemporary American culture marked by instant gratification and quick results, a cause characterized by slow and steady investment without immediate tangible change seems almost paradoxical. But it is for this very reason that I am adamant about Many Hopes’ capacity to create true impact. EXPAND POST