Seeds of Kindness - Guidelines


	CREATING AN ATTITUDE OF GENEROSITY AND SHARING

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GUIDELINES FOR SEEDS OF KINDNESS FUNDS

(Email reports/testimonies about Seeds Of Kindness, to myreport@seedsofkindness.com)

These are general guidelines we have asked people to observe. They are flexible enough to allow persons or groups to adapt them to their own situation.

1. Unselfishness. Your seed money cannot be used for yourself or anyone in your family.

2. Involvement. You may not simply donate your seed money to a church, charity, or helping agency. You may, however, work with one of these to identify a need you will be concerned to address. Gifts to churches and charities are good things, but this project seeks to help you see needy persons as real human beings and to care about their situation � taking time to see people as God sees them.

3. Personal. Legitimate needs exist in many places, but many of the private and government agencies created to address them are impersonal, antiseptic, and cold. One person touching another person or family to help in some small but warmhearted way can have an extraordinary impact.

4. Anonymity. The source of the money you use in this project will remain anonymous. Nobody is trying to �get credit� for helping others.

5. No Payback. You may take nothing in return for what you do. If someone does pledge to pay you back in some way, your obligation is to inform that person that you hope he or she will soon be able to help someone else in a similar way.

6. Creativity. Do your best to be creative. Think of the money put in your hands as seed money and try to increase the amount of the gift through whatever means you choose. For example, get others to pool funds and efforts with you so you can multiply your seed money. Purchase supplies to make hats for children with cancer. Buy materials to build a ramp onto a handicapped person�s porch. Buy holidays items to distribute at a nursing home. Opportunities to help other people are everywhere!

7. Understanding. Try to understand the impact of your act of sharing on the person, family, or group you chose to assist. What joy was created? What needs were met? Think also about the effect of what you do on yourself. How did it make you feel to pass along a gift? Most people find that their ability to aid someone else does as much or more for them as for those who receive assistance.

8. Reflection. Isn�t everything in your possession a trust handed over to you? Is selfishness ever justified? Isn�t the pay-it-forward philosophy of life worthwhile every day?

9. Reporting. Your experience may inspire others or give them ideas for similar projects, so you are asked to share what you do by e-mailing myreport@SeedsOfKindness.com. You might report (a) the situation you chose to address, (b) the strategy you used, (c) the impact you observed on the recipient, and (d) the impression you had of the experience afterward. Stories submitted to this site may be told either at this website or in The Tennessean for the sake of their inspirational value. Your anonymity will be respected.

10. Lasting Impact. We hope your experience will help create a mindset and way of acting that will stay with you throughout your life. May it become a way of life and not a one-time experiment.

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