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With a track record of organizing nearly 100 Galas across three continents and nine cities, I've gained invaluable insights for successful and sustainable charity events. Here are three critical tips to ensure your event's success.
When you are someplace or with someone, with the aim of making a difference and helping, then go invisible, stay in the background, and seek opportunities to convey to others through pics, blog and messages, that real story, the story that matters most.
I have been described in a number of ways, but, this 67-year-old prefers to describe myself as a Never-too-Later! I have helped 100s of people raise funds (amounting to millions of dollars) in order to realize dreams.
I'm a regular guy, with no technological background. But over the last couple of years, I've learned how to create a YouTube channel, create a brand on Instagram, run a campaign on Kickstarter, deliver an online webinar, and lots, lots more skills that I'll be sharing soon in Daring to Realize Your Dream.
Money is important, it makes the world go around. But, it does not matter as much as many people think.
An abridged excerpt (Love) from my book Never Too Late: Ten Tips to Change the Course of Your Life. First Published in English in 2005 in the UK and subsequently in French, Portuguese and Russian.
Often, boys in the modern age are tossed about in the deep turbulent waters of adolescence, vulnerable to the powerful crosscurrents of media pressure and cultural upheaval. Frequently, a boy's only companions on this journey are his peers who are as frightened and inexperienced has he is.
It's May 1st and we're entering the fifth month of 2020 with COVID-19 embedding itself in our global consciousness. I, for one, am grateful for technology that enables humans to connect. Even the simple telephone is vital at times like this.
When we see others suffer, there is an innate human response to do something. In normal times, we donate money or our time. It makes us feel better that we are doing something. This is different. Donating our money and time has been replaced by washing our hands, practicing social distancing and encouraging others to do the same.