Month: October 2018

For Goodness Sake VOTE!!
Whatever your leanings, predilections, preferences or agendas, get informed and be sure to exercise your democratic right!
Here is a sampling of voter guides for San Diego county (you may have others too)…https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/10/a-sampling-of-2018-voter-guides-for-san-diegans-progressive-activist-calendar-october-12-22-2018/
Vote with your pocketbook too, and support organizations that share your values

This week:
Rethinking Crime, Homelessness, Selfishness and Learning from the Culture of Bees

‘In My Father’s House’ Explores How Crime Spreads Through Generations:
Butterfield offers readers a startling statistic. He writes that findings by criminologists from the United States and other countries found 5 percent of families account for half of all crime.
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/22/656298537/in-my-father-s-house-explores-how-crime-spreads-through-generations

Homelessness: I Feel Your Pain or Do I?
“Empathy changes everything,” Mobley said. “It absolutely prevents me from ignoring or diminishing the value of another human being. And if everybody is of immense value, how can I ignore anybody and suffering? And if I can’t ignore anybody and suffering, well then, the whole world changes.”
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/oct/01/homelessness-i-feel-your-pain-or-do-i/

Is This Why You’re Acting Selfishly? – by Bea B:

A group of students is asked to walk to another building to deliver a speech. They encounter a man slumped in a doorway, coughing and groaning. The man is an actor hired by researchers. This Princeton University experiment found that students who possessed one particular thing were six times more likely to help than those who didn’t.

Did the helpers have religious faith? Extroversion? Stronger ethics? Two X chromosomes? Frosted donuts for breakfast?…

Continue reading. It takes under five minutes.

Keep on caring,

Bea

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Bees and Your Business with Steve M:

I’m a novice apiary—AKA a beekeeper. For the past couple of years, I’ve been tending hives, and I’m slowly learning about this practice and tradition that goes back to Egyptian times, and beyond.  I got into beekeeping because I wanted to help the plight of the honey bee, for both pollination and declining population (due to pesticide use) reasons. But, what I’ve learned goes well beyond merely how to care for these amazing creatures, and these learnings can be applied to benefit to your culture and your brand.

Learning from the culture of bees:

1. As above, so below. In the bee world, the queen rules the hive. She sets the tone for the collective, leads all growth, productivity, production, and even decides when it’s time to swam (the act of leaving the hive to find another home). If she is a happy, healthy, engaged queen, the colony follows suit. However, if she is agitated, nasty or unhealthy, the hive will follow that temperament. When this happens, chaos ensues. While this can sometimes be a good thing, because queens get replaced, it’s a delicate time for the survival of the hive. Some of the most susceptible times are when a colony is replacing its queen. Some hives survive, some don’t.
2. Know your role and do your There are lots of roles in the hive: the queen bee, drones, collectors, checkers, etc. Each bee needs to know and do their role. When they don’t the colony suffers, and the unproductive bee is usually ousted. While everyone has a role, knows their role, and does their role, they also help out in any other way that the collective needs when the hive needs it. Their role is not their job. Their job is to ensure that hive thrives. Every hive member looks out for what’s best for the collective hive—and they do their role.
3. Misbehavior is not tolerated. If a bee, in any role, including the queen is not doing their job, the hive turns on them, corrects their behavior or pushes them out the door. An extreme example of this is when drone bees lose their ability to incubate eggs; they are unceremoniously removed from the hive. There’s no room in the colony for those who don’t contribute.
4. Greet everyone at the door. A particular role within the hive is what’s called “greeters” or “checkers.” These bees inspect returning bees from the outside habitat for diseases, mites, or other potential invaders. They can also read where the bee has been and get a sense for the environment, like where nectar can be found, the change of weather and seasons. Checkers have a read on what’s happening outside the hive and ensure that the right bees are coming into the hive healthily. And, I’ve noticed that checkers are like greeters, they welcome the bees from the outside world back into the collective. They seem to clean them, nurture them, and welcome them.
5. Constant collection. The role of many of the bees in the hive is to collect nectar and return it to the colony for production into honey and wax. Honey feeds the bees. Wax creates the foundation for their home, including their meticulous and perfectly shaped cone. In the cone, each precisely the same size and shape, they lay and incubate eggs, store and cap honey and feed. To feed the hive and keep it growing constant nectar collection needs to take place. All bees continuously look out for the health and future of the collective.
6. Chaos is part of the evolution. Hives go through transitions and change. Queen bees that have gone beyond their productive time are replaced. The colony goes through growth spurts, seasonality changes, and swarming. They pull together to prepare for hard times by storing honey. These are all natural shifts in the world of hives. The bees adapt and collaborate in the chaos that comes from changes.
7. The pheromone factor. When a bee stings a predator or invader, for instance, it sends out sting pheromones, which alerts other bees to attack the identified weak spot. I know this from the experience of getting stung on my ankle, through my socks. Right after the sting, dozens of bees went after the same spot. Just like humans, bees sense things. The energy that’s given out is amplified. Just because it isn’t said, that doesn’t mean it’s not picked up on.

8.Health + adaptivity + collaboration = productivity. When a hive is healthy, it is managing chaos and dealing well with change. It adapts to the changes outside the hive and continues to collaborate to ensure the hive is productive. If two queens are fighting for leadership of the hive, the collective is not populating nor making honey. When hive health is in place the opportunity for more collaboration takes place. For hives and humans, the more collaborative they are, the more productive they are.

 

If you are local:
46^th National Philanthropy Day November 5^th 11 to 1:30pm at the Town and Country

Thanks this week go to NPR, KPBS, Bea B, Steve M & Keepers of Culture Everywhere!

Please pay it forward and “BEE” Yourself!
Love,
Neville

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‘The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.’- Mark Twain

Happy Soul Food Friday!

This week: Fore-Caring with a Quadruple Bottom Line Focus on People, Planet, Profit and Purpose with:

• Our Huge Heart – where People are always at the center of the work
• The Best Science – reinforced by the wisdom traditions of 2,500 years ago and neuroscience from 2,500 milliseconds ago
• The Best Principles – that are timeless and universal
• Best/Next Practices – that inform how we can operationalize this work both in and in spite of current systems
• For the Greatest Good – where a quadruple bottom line of People, Planet, Profit and Purpose prevails
• & For the Longest Term

There is no playbook anymore for taking a stand, but that should not stop us!

In Gratitude to the People Who Strive for Equity:

Appreciation to all that served and were served at this year’s Cause Conference

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Purpose.

In the spirit of profound gratitude and joy, thank you all for your active participation in and commitment to creating a kinder and more purpose-filled community. This year’s Cause Conference was a powerful gathering of Service  to individuals and organizations!

Whatever your role – attendee, volunteer, student, speaker, content expert or sponsor – and whether you came as a passionate advocate or an informed skeptic, you were instrumental in our symphonic composition. Together we demonstrated that greatness is possible when a committed group of caring souls get together to make a difference of consequence and show up fully with courage (gut), love and compassion (heart) and collective wisdom (head).

On this 20th anniversary we honored our past and reached for the future. Our Inaugural Purpose Awards through our great partnership with the Sanford Institute of Philanthropy at National University honored Will Marre. Will was a local purpose luminary. Will’s positive spirit and loving impact is one of the spiritual forces shoring up our efforts and passions.

From our opening keynote with Patrick Combs to our closing keynote with Skyler McCurine we were collectively energized, inspired, and emboldened to take the necessary and available actions to leave the world a better place for the children and generations that follow.

We lived into our conference theme at the intersection of Cause + Commerce with our Connect, Coach and Champion elements. We have every confidence that you connected deeply with at least one other kindred spirit, learned at least one Purpose Practice you can activate at home or work, and both championed others as well as felt like the champion you really are in advancing this authentic and powerful way to show up in the world.

We worked hard to curate people and topics that reflected:

• Our Huge Heart – where People are always at the center of the work
• The Best Science – reinforced by the wisdom traditions of 2,500 years ago and neuroscience from 2,500 milliseconds ago
• The Best Principles – that are timeless and universal
• Best/Next Practices – that inform how we can operationalize this work both in and in spite of current systems
• For the Greatest Good – where a quadruple bottom line of People, Planet, Profit and Purpose prevails
• & For the Longest Term – with Scalable and Sustainable solutions that will make For Purpose the new normal

Whether you were able to attend the conference or not, if you would like to stay connected on this purpose journey and be apprised of other gatherings, do join us at: https://www.facebook.com/ChamberOfPurpose/

And visit us at our website at: ChamberOfPurpose.org

May we remember to reach for those farthest behind first, and may you be that person you needed most when you were younger.

With love and respect on behalf of the entire SDAMA and Chamber of Purpose teams

Your co-chairs,

Neville Billimoria, Eric Kaufmann & Larry Kesslin

 

In Service of Our Small Blue Planet with Environmental Stewardship:
Neighborhood Drop Off Programs for those Interested in Composting from Inika Small Earth: (Making community composting  easier)

In January 2018, City Council of San Diego unanimously passed an amendment to the solid waste ordinance allowing community scale composters to compost up to 1000 tons of vegetative food scraps anywhere in the city without requiring a franchise hauling license. This is path breaking and a first for any local government in the State of California and sets the stage for community composting.

As a result community compost hubs and food scrap drop off points are springing up all over our city. These compost hubs are keeping organics out of landfills, strengthening the spirit of community and regenerating our depleted urban soil. One such innovative social enterprise is Food2Soil which is building a network of decentralized, hyper-local loops connecting food waste generators, soil-farmers and urban gardeners thus ensuring that resources stay close to their generation points and benefit the local communities.

Residents and businesses in San Diego can now participate in a program that composts their food scraps for them. Each compost hub utilizes these scraps to teach the next generation of urban farmers to grow food for their communities in ways that regenerate the soil and preserve its capacity to naturally cycle nutrients. In doing so they make handcrafted compost that is humus rich, made entirely from fruit and vegetable scraps, transformed with the help of oxygen, water and billions of friendly micro-organisms that keep soil alive.

Food is for humans, animals and soil. Sending food to landfills contributes to climate change. More importantly it deprives animals and soil of the nutrients they need and increases our farmer’s dependence on corn and soy feed as well as nitrogen based fertilizers.

Food2Soil offers a weekly pickup of kitchen scraps for its member businesses.

Individuals and households interested in joining the drop off program can learn more and sign up online at http://www.dropoff.food2soil.net/.

Businesses Can Advance a Purpose Agenda Leveraging the Power of Economics:
Blue And Red Companies: How CEO Activism Is Reshaping Workforce Politics

“I knew I was going to get a lot of hate mail. I knew I was going to get threats. I knew my family was going to get threats, and all of that has happened,” he says. “But somebody’s got to have the courage to step up and say something needs to be done.”
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/15/656849460/blue-and-red-companies-how-ceo-activism-is-reshaping-workforce-politics?ft=nprml&f=1001

Thanks this week go to the entire Cause Conference team, Sarah B-M, Eric K and the Conscious Leaders Collective and everyone working on purpose!

Please pay it forward
Love,
Neville

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‘The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.’- Mark Twain

“Be the Person YOU NEEDED When You Were Younger”

Let’s Elevate Issues of Social Justice, Equity, Inclusion, Global Consciousness, Mental Health & Self Care!

 

National Coming Out Day is celebrated every year on October 11th

It grows and becomes more well-known every single year. National coming out day is a time for those in the LGBT community to finally be open about who they are to their friends, family and the world! This day was actually founded way back in 1988 and since then it has hit the world by storm. Being out and proud as a lesbian person, a bisexual person, a gay person or a trans person is such a liberation and is sure to completely transform your life for the better.

This week:
Come Out
BE CAUSE Oct 11 and 12
UC San Diego HomeComing Oct 19-21

See the change you want to be. Be the change you want to see…
It’s Time to Measure Success Through a New Lens: San Diego Business Journal Op-Ed This Week
SDBJ Commentary Article_10.08.18

Last Call for Positivity of Epidemic Proportions:
A COMMUNITY COLLABORATION: We’re elevating the community—collectively. Some of San Diego’s finest mission-driven organizations have joined forces to co-create and co-curate the program and activities of Cause Conference THIS FRI, OCT 12. Combined with their expertise and participation, you can expect one the most impactful event experiences to date. JOIN US: http://bit.ly/2zS7PAQ

AMA San Diego, Conscious Capitalism San Diego, Business For Good San Diego, San Diego Social Venture Partners, PRSA San Diego, Mission Edge, San Diego Grantmakers, Sanford Institute of Philanthropy and more!
https://bit.ly/2C9PW2a

Nonprofits and Activism- Restoring Your Faith in Humanity
Curiously both Skyler and Patrick use balloons to weave their story and both are keynoting at Cause on Friday…

Selfishness is killing the human spirit -Skyler McCurine is redefining the standard of beauty in America:
Happiness research proves that if you perform random acts of kindness for two minutes a day, for 21 days, you can actually retrain your brain to be more positive.
So What? When you brain is more positive, you are 31% more creative, intelligent and productive. Selflessness through acts of kindness can actually make your work smarter and better! (see more at the 8:20 mark)
Skyler is one of keynote speakers at this Friday’s Cause Conference…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqXLmL3OItA

Kids Are Inspired People- with Patrick Combs:
“You are the only person in the world looking out for your heart”
Patrick Combs, Bestselling Author, Hall of Fame and Opening Keynote at this Friday’s Cause Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z52sgJSZdKs

 

In stark counterpoint…

How Much We Value Male Anger, and How Little We Rate Female Sadness:

The Kavanaugh hearing was a master class in misreading anger as honesty. The thing about male anger, no matter how pouty and infantile it is, is that people respect it. Female anger is not only disapproved of; it’s read as essentially wrongheaded, a sign of pathology and brokenness… This article, in short, is about the power of anger: who gets to use it, and how it’s misread.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-hearing-angry-shouting.html

For the complete recording on the fallacies we use to accept bad behavior, including “DARVO”, click on:  https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm and pick The Victimhood episode. It is enlightening!

 

If you are local…

Tritons Unite! Everyone is Welcome!

UC San Diego is hosting a big Homecoming Weekend, and the start of a new tradition from Oct. 19-21! It’s going to be campus-wide fun over three days, with free soccer games and a beer garden on Friday night; a Saturday night Triton Tailgate music festival, featuring hit musician and surfer Donavon Frankenreiter; and a fun Brunch-with-a-Prof event on Sunday. Add to that numerous athletic games, arts events, and special campus tours and activities throughout the weekend. Friends and family of all ages are welcome! It’s going to be a great time to explore campus and connect with the community.

Even better: you can use discount code SWEET” for $5 off registration. Check out the lineup: alumni.ucsd.edu/homecoming.

There are over 45 events and activities from Friday, October 19 to Sunday, October 21, and EVERYONE you know – friends, family, neighbors, colleagues: alumni and non-alumni, alike — is welcome to attend! Events are filling up, so encourage your contacts to register today; feel free to share the “SWEET” promo code for $5 off any of the ticketed events.

A FUN OPPORTUNITY for the Sunday brunch crowd is “Brunch-With-A-Prof,” featuring a delectable menu of French toast casserole, avocado toast with heirloom tomatoes, breakfast hash, salted caramel bacon, and a mimosa bar, just to name a few items. The gourmet fare will be seasoned with opportunities to meet some of the alumni community’s favorite professors – a great opportunity to reconnect with campus….and for families to bring out tweens and teens already thinking about college!  To add even more brain to the brunch, there’s a special mini-lecture about social media and politics that will arm attendees with new insights in the run up to November election season. (Note: with the SWEET promo code, this event is just $5 per person!)

Get social on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Tag @ucsdalumni, #UCSDHomecoming

Thanks this week to all of you that make the world better!

Pay it forward with Purpose
Love,
Neville

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“Be the Person YOU NEEDED When You Were Younger”

This week:
First an antidote, then the diagnosis
The antidote- purpose
The diagnosis- the unrealized potential of humanity as expressed in social immobility

As Brandon so compelling puts it in the last piece in this week’s missive (see below),  “When leaders have rooted their identity in their purpose, transforming and overcoming the inner voices that keep them from taking risks, and creating a purpose-driven career plan, they take massive action rooted in their commitment to themselves and what they most care about in the world.” May we all manifest this for our greater selves and take the steps to make it real…

As you will see from this week’s links below, the American dream, Californian dreamin’, Equal pay and Gender parity remain unrealized opportunities in the US, California and here in San Diego.

That said, we can work towards the societal change we wish to see and this gathering next week is a consummate example so please consider joining us if you want to do something meaningful with people that share your values and viewpoint!

U/T Spotlight Podcast on wsRadio.com with Drew Schlosberg on The Power of Purpose:
The What behind the Why You Might Want to Invest a Day of Your Life with Your Peeps…
http://wsradio.com/10-02-18-mission-federal-credit-union-supports-the-cause-conference/

Join us Friday Oct 12^th and Be Part of the Change YOU Wish to See in the World:
It’s true. It’s good-hearted people like you who make Cause Conference a uniquely special experience. It would mean the world to us if you joined!
In just two weeks, hundreds of San Diego’s cross-sector leaders and influencers will convene to:

• Coach and provide practical tools to enhance a purpose-driven organizational model and mindset;
• Connect with like-minded people to share ideas, solve tough problems, and foster new, innovative partnerships that impact the community; and
• Champion and recognize momentous, collaborative partnerships and successes that make the San Diego region a better place for all.

We architected the 20^th annual Cause Conference with you in mind. With impact at its core, Cause Conference deliberately challenges the myth that cross-sector organizations have unique challenges that can’t be conquered with cross-sector expertise, collaboration, and passion. No matter where you are on your purpose journey, we think you’ll find the insight, connections, and inspiration to advance your mission while driving profits and improving ROI. Empower your purpose with:

• Collaboration-Focused Formats: This isn’t a sit-and-listen kind of conference. Roll up your sleeves and collaborate with participants and facilitators to ideate, solve problems, and develop plans to execute.  SEE SCHEDULE >
• Purposely Curated Program: Inspire the great work you do with workshops facilitated by purpose powerhouses, including Malin Burnham, Skyler McCurine, Patrick Combs, Christy Wilson, Karim Bouris, Anne Marbarger, and more.  SEE ALL 50+ FACILITATORS >
• A Community Collaboration: We’ve partnered with some of San Diego’s top values-driven organizations, like Business for Good SD, Conscious Capitalism SD, Mission Edge, Social Venture Partners SD, SD Grantmakers, to co-create conference content and attract even more, purpose-driven participants!  MEET OUR PARTNERS >
• Social Engineering: We’ve allocated more time and designed some fun, facilitated connection development activities. Come see your friends and meet some great new partners.  SEE WHO’S COMIN’ >

Hope you’ll join us Friday, October 12^th for Cause Conference and the evening before for the #CauseSD Kickoff Mixer. Tickets start at just $189. Please do REGISTER TODAY as prices will go up after next week. Spread the word, rally your friends, and save even more with ticket bundles.

Our collective outcomes will be much more impactful with you there!

Your friends,
NEVILLE BILLIMORIA
Co-Chair, Cause Conference 2018; Co-Founder, Chamber of Purpose; SVP Membership & Chief Advocacy Officer, Mission Federal Credit Union
ERIC KAUFMANN
Co-Chair, Cause Conference 2018; Executive Director, Chamber of Purpose; President & Founder, Sagatica
LARRY KESSLIN
Co-Chair & Sponsorship Director, Cause Conference 2018; Sustainability Chair, Chamber of Purpose; Chief Connector, Corporate Alliance
DAVID PALMER
Executive Board Member & Programming Director, Cause Conference 2018; Project Manager, Chamber of Purpose; Past President, AMA San Diego; Chief Innovationist, Integrix

For a day, I was one of the millions of Americans without a bank account. It was humbling – The San Diego Union-Tribune

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/la-fi-emerge-finx-20180621-story.html#share=email~story

The Bottom 90 percent are Still Poorer than They were in 2007:
Indeed, according to numbers put together by researchers at the Federal Reserve, the top 10 percent of working-age households were the only ones who, adjusted for inflation, were richer on average in 2016 than they were in 2007. Everyone else, as you can see was somewhere between 17 to 35 percent poorer than they’d been almost a decade before.

(Source: Federal Reserve)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/01/bottom-percent-are-still-poorer-than-they-were/?utm_term=.e6dd424e97d6

 

California Economy Leaves Far Too Many Poor:
Behind California’s status as the fifth-largest economy in the world is the troubling reality that the Golden State is also one of the most impoverished in the nation.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/07/30/california-economy-leaves-far-too-many-poor/

 

New Survey Shows California Dream Continues To Fade

Nearly half of working Californians are grappling with poverty, according to a new survey by the DC-based Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). “These are people who are working and in many cases, multiple jobs and they’re still not able to make ends meet,”

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/aug/28/despite-working-californians-struggle-cover-housin/

 

How Women Get Paid What They Are Worth: The Inner Game of Purposeful Wealth

What underlies these common barriers, and moves leaders into confident, clear and effective action is developing their inner game. When leaders have rooted their identity in their purpose, transforming and overcoming the inner voices that keep them from taking risks, and creating a purpose-driven career plan, they take massive action rooted in their commitment to themselves and what they most care about in the world.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-women-get-paid-what-worth-brandon-peele/?published=t

Thanks this week go to Drew S, Wade T, Eric K, Larry K, David P, Ron A, Brandon P, and all purposeful souls committed to elevating humanity

Please pay it forward!
Love,
Neville

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“The purpose of life is not to be happy.  It is to be useful, to be
honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have
lived and lived well.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson