Nipun Mehta is the founder of CharityFocus.org, a fully volunteer-run organization that has delivered millions of dollars of web-related services to the nonprofit world for free. The recipient of the Jefferson Award for Public Service and the President's Volunteer Service Award, his work creatively leverages web technologies for collaborative and transformational giving, lending him insight into service, leadership, organizational design, and spirituality. He serves on the advisory boards of the Seva Foundation, Dalai Lama Foundation, and Airline Ambassadors.
Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta talks about the values behind his organization, like selfless volunteering and focusing on small things, which allowed his team to discover the power of many.
Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta describes a project encouraging random acts of kindness that demonstrates the power of small things to transform society.
Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta describes one example of kindness that illustrates how small acts coming from one's goodness of spirit are what make up a revolution.
Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta comments on how modern culture makes people think they need to acquire things in order to feel complete and recalls the ancient idea that in giving you are fulfilled.
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"The transformation in that moment when that person with anger is confronted with generosity, with goodness of the spirit, that moment is the seed of a revolution."
Ven. Choegyal Rinpoche is the 8th Dru-gu Choegyal
incarnation in the Drukpa Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Fleeing
Tibet at the age of thirteen, he eventually settled in the Kangra
Valley in the high country of Himachal Pradesh. Like many of his
previous incarnations Choegyal Rinpoche is a highly gifted and well
known artist whose work has been shown worldwide.
Tibetan Buddhist teacher Ven. Choegyal Rinpoche believes that although the worlds of business and spirituality are far apart, they can meet by developing common values of care and compassion.
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"Now it becomes like the business world is one, and the spiritual world is one. So these two are not coming together. The business world looks to the spiritual world as something that is a stranger. The spiritual world looks to the business world as something stranger."
Tami Simon is the founder and president of Sounds
True, an audio, video, and music publisher dedicated to disseminating
spiritual wisdom, based in Boulder, Colorado. With a background in
religious studies and community public radio, Tami began Sounds True at
the age of 22, and over the last 18 years has served as executive
producer of over 600 titles. Twice nominated for the Inc 500 list of
the fastest-growing companies in the United States, Sounds True mails
over 2 million catalogs each year and is North America's leading
publisher of spoken-word spiritual teachings.
Tami Simon, founder and president of the Sounds True audio publishing company, asks, what it would mean to have a company where there were no secrets? The new business philosophy of transparency creates new levels of trust. Although we may not know the exact effects of this sort of leap of faith, Tami says, let's leap!
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"...the number one megatrend in this time that we're in now, and for the next few years, is the rise of conscious capitalism. The rise of spirituality in business. This is the number one trend that we are going to see."
