Giving Archives - Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker

Can A Simple Question Solve the Affordable Housing Crisis?

Jeff Havens — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:56:20 +0000

I don’t normally talk about myself in these articles, because I want these solutions to be something that can work for you. But over the past couple years I’ve been working on something that I think you might find interesting – if not for the subject itself, then for how my solution to this issue…

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How Using Both/And Can Change Your Life

Jeff Havens — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:36:43 +0000

The April 2025 issue of National Geographic featured an awards show of sorts – 33 individuals around the world whose work (at least according to National Geographic) is improving the world in some way. Many of them, as you might imagine, are doing things related to the environment. Several, however, were businesspeople, and two in…

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Giving Can Be Fun!

Jeff Havens — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:02:45 +0000

Yes, we’ve posted this video for the last couple of years, but it’s still fun and hopefully encourages everyone to get in the right spirit for the holiday season!

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Little Free Library Update

Jeff Havens — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:36:51 +0000

If you get my newsletter (which you absolutely should!!) you probably read about our initiative with LittleFreeLibrary.org and the unexpected upside that comes with being charitable. Well our little libraries are all finished and I wanted to provide a quick update on the AMAZING response we received! In fact, we had more people wanting the…

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The Unexpected Upside of Charity

Jeff Havens — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 09:00:11 +0000

Hello everyone, and (almost) welcome to September! We’re finally done with the tedium of warm days and scampering around in swimsuits. No longer shall you have to pretend to love spending your every waking moment with your children, since you now once again ship them off to school! And perhaps most importantly of all, I’m…

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3 Ways To Encourage People To Donate More

Jeff Havens — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:03:39 +0000

If you’ve ever tried raising money for anything – a Kickstarter campaign, a small business, a non-profit, or your own squadron of attack dolphins – you’ve probably learned that it’s not always fun to ask people for money. It always helps to think of your request as “encouraging like-minded individuals to support a great cause”…

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4 Selfish Reasons To Be Generous

Jeff Havens — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:00:06 +0000

People always encourage you to be nice and generous and kind and thoughtful because it’s “the right thing to do.” Lately, however, I’ve started to wonder about that logic. I’ve also been told that eating my vegetables is the “right thing to do,” but I’m still incapable of convincing myself that lima beans will give…

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