Money With a Mission

Here at Money With A Mission we hope you have a wonderful and stress-free holiday season. To help put you in the right mood we thought you might enjoy this comical twist on an old classic. Enjoy!

Over the next few weeks and months we’re going to try linking to some other interesting articles. We’ll put the highlights here and then provide a link to take you to the full story. Over the weekend the USA TODAY ran a story about the importance of diversification in a portfolio. Diversification simply means not [...]

We are excited to announce that we’ll be participating in EcoSpiel on Tuesday. According to the organizers:   “EcoSpiel gatherings bring together like-minded community members interested in organizing their efforts toward land conservation and other sustainability measures to protect our local environment. We often host short talks from local individuals, groups, or businesses focused on [...]

End-of-Year Giving Every year you give away some of your money to various charities, but when was the last time you reviewed and prioritized and created an intentional plan of giving? Many people give throughout the year but without a plan. If you want to make an impact in a specific area and know that [...]

As we move into the Thanksgiving season I note that unemployment numbers continue to decline; the number of us behind on mortgage payments continues to decline and single family home building starts have increased. Europe still doesn’t have a clear way out of its financial debts, and our own ‘super committee’ will either have  a [...]

Many of you know that we have just spent 8 days in Haiti, mostly in Verrette, a small town about 60 miles north of Port-au-Prince. While the group of 11 of us were not the best organized, we were able to get a pretty good sense of what works, and what doesn’t in Haiti today. [...]

Alternative Giving Fairs! Sick of the mall? While we all enjoy the good spirit and communal nature that come during the holiday season, many of our clients are concerned with the materialistic bent that at times is overwhelming in our society. In keeping with our tradition of providing ways to live a more sustainable and [...]

This week Greg is in Haiti on a mission trip revolving around a micro-finance group. From Greg: “We will be in a town called Verrette, about 60 miles N. of Port-au-Prince. My wife has been involved with a small group of folks who have been ‘in country’ for 4 years, helping develop women’s cooperatives, and [...]

In light of the Occupy Wall St movement (see our blog post for more thoughts on that) we wanted to really scare you this Halloween and have you envision a world without shareholder activism. For those of you who don’t know shareholder activism is defined as: Using equity stake in a corporation to put public [...]

  For many weeks now we have been closely following the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. On first glance we are excited to see a broader spectrum of the public become engaged and speaking up for what they want. We also understand and empathize with the sentiment that many of the protesters have. It does [...]