Creating a life worth living

What would your life be like if you aligned your values with your work, consumption, investments and philanthropy? What if love and abundance was your primary inspiration, rather than fear and scarcity? What if you joined your efforts with others in your community?

Helping donors and organizations answer these three essential questions is at the core of every professional fundraisers' job.

San Francisco Bay Area social web maven Britt Bravo is someone whom I suspected asked herself these questions many years ago. Today, through personal coaching, community activism and business consulting she helps individuals and organizations create positive change in the world around us.

While finding time to keep up with one blog is difficult enough for most of us, Britt writes for four: her personal blog, Have Fun • Do Good; the NetSquared blog, where she is the Community Builder; BlogHer, where she is a BlogHer Nonprofit and NGO Contributing Editor; and her newest endeavor, Basic Blogging for Women.

If that weren’t enough, she also produces audio podcasts for NetSquared and her own Big Vision website!

I particularly want to point you toward this later link, which features a series of interviews with some of today's most inspiring, young progressive thinkers including Jessica Jackley Flannery of Kiva, Steve Williams of POWER, and Brahm Ahmadi of People’s Grocery.

Fundraising isn't really the focus of these podcasts, but I spent the last few days listening to Britt’s audio archives and am beginning to believe that I too can begin to help heal the world. Maybe you’d like to join me?