Many donors don't remember every annual gift they made, but they remember the moments they helped create, the scholarship awarded, the family housed, the cancer drug that worked, the loved one whose life was changed.
I live in a college town. The annual ritual of students returning to campus is pure joy. Seeing the wide-eyed freshmen, the confident graduate students, the anxious parents—it is just fun to observe.
Saturday was our family’s 3rd annual Parents Can’t Say No Day. We started this tradition during Covid to celebrate the end of summer and the start of a new school year.