Community Purse Blog
Latest NewsRounding Up: The Impact You May Not Always See
I like when I’m checking out somewhere and there is an opportunity to “round up” to the next dollar amount and the money (less than a dollar) goes to a particular entity. You get to decide and give a bit, all in the same 10 seconds.
Expanding Our Reach, Growing Our Membership
Welcoming male members to our chapters
The Gift of a Giving Circle
Zero-Waste Sharing
Each New Season Brings New Reasons to Support Our Local Organizations
Fall always means transition. Summer is over, school starts, days turn crisp, and, as a huge bonus, there are caramel apples available everywhere. Every year in our part of the world, the trees get perfectly magical before the leaves disappear altogether. It’s a...
How Big Giving Starts with Free Pizza
Community Purse meetings are a blast. It’s a party we are all invited to, where we leave feeling better than when we came. Most of the same people come and some we may only see once a quarter, so the mood is upbeat and joyful. At the McHenry Chapter meetings there...
Manna on Mission
Every charitable organization has limits. There’s only so much money, only so much time, and only so many hours that can be spent furthering the mission on which it stands. I would wager to say that most of these enterprises also have goals and dreams that aren’t...