Greek has many different words for love.In my professional life, I am blessed to see beautiful examples of phila (brotherly love) every day through our nonprofit partners.But today, I want to talk about agape—unconditional love.
Hard. Difficult. Challenging. Exhausting. Overwhelming.Nope. I am not talking about the pandemic.These are the adjectives I am hearing over and over from nonprofit leaders describing what it is like to manage their teams right now.
If you know that our younger son is a collegiate runner, then you probably have heard me say. “Runners run.”Runners run when it is hot, cold, raining, tropical storming, sleeting, or snowing. They run when you are on vacation, Thanksgiving Day, their birthdays. They run.
Last week Staci Barfield and I participated in a webinar from Nonprofit HR about race and diversity practices in nonprofits.I am starting to realize that there are many inequities that I never see or think about because they don’t apply to me. I have many doors I can choose to walk through on any given day; therefore, I assume that those doors are open to everyone. False.
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