Featuring KanVote.org We get this question A LOT. We are passionate about public service as a tangible example of servant leadership. You’ve heard of people leading “with a servant’s heart”? The ideal client/candidate (not just here, but every workplace) doesn’t ask first about money or “what should I run for”, but “how can I best use my time/talents/treasure to serve …
Time, Talent, Treasure:
Service Looks Different for Everyone! We work with a lot of groups on how best to engage with elected officials. This tip resonates because everyone has either time, talent, or treasure that can be repurposed to help someone around them. Let’s use recent events to highlight government overreach as an example – and then overlay with how elected officials can …
Block Booster: Be the Resource
This week’s advice is what we’ve told candidates and incumbents for years – AND there’s a lot of space for it right now – be a resource for neighbors to build community right where they are. EVERYONE is trying so hard right now to combat the epidemic of loneliness, isolation, and division. How can YOU serve? Be a resource – share local …
Hackman Horror
In case you’ve been careening down a doom loop of calamitous economic obsession, bureaucratic blowups, and global order meltdown, there was big story you may have missed that hits all of us very close to home. Gene Hackman was 95 and suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. We don’t know how bad he had become, but with his age, he likely needed …
News Hack
There’s a lot of consternation about where to find the most accurate sources of news. Then, when you do find articles which pique your interest, they’re behind a paywall. This week’s act of service is to share a news hack shared with us a few weeks ago… Copy the URL of the article you want to read and this website cuts through most website paywalls to …
Embrace the Tagalongs🍪
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time! If your family is still selling, please add their cookie link in the comments so we can indulge our addictions… er… support them. The hubs and daughter are Thin Mint purists, but I’m a Caramel deLite junkie. What’s your favorite? Today’s Serve60Sharp tip has nothing to do with cookies per se, but the concept of embracing a …
WE CALL: Show Us Your (BINGO) Cards
When we launched this challenge in January 2024, our business goals included expanding VoteSharp to more subscribers and avoiding campaign work. We all know how that went… Our plans for summertime civic engagement training events fell by the wayside, so those obviously weren’t able to be crossed off, but everything else was doable. As a reminder, here’s the original email with challenge …
Drop Your Shoulders: Give Grace
It’s been a few weeks and my fingers are twitching to write – but will still keep it short! Today’s Serve60Sharp concept is grace. Give it to yourself and others. We NEVER know what’s going on in someone’s life. Many times even our closest friends. Americans suck it up and do what we need to do. Especially women. Whining about it …
Challenge: Spend Less, Give More
Our community service tip for this week is a SPENDING CHALLENGE! Not our idea, but from Rev. Adam Hamilton at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection here in the KC area. It’s a simple concept Happy serving – your community AND Thanksgiving dinner! Stephanie