I learned something new about Amazon today from my friend Bill in Dickinson. Apparently, Amazon allows you to shop and give to charity at the same time. Who knew? The program is called AmazonSmile and it allows you to donate a portion ( 0.5% ) of certain purchases to one of a collection of charities. You [...]
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The Investment Bank
One of my favorite business-based community initiatives comes from Bell State Bank & Trust and Bell Mortgage. The initiative, Pay It Forward, which was started in 2008 by Michael Solberg (now the President and CEO of the Bell State Bank & Trust and Bell Mortgage), has resulted in over $4.1 million being given to individuals, [...]
In Nya’s shoes…
Tomorrow Cheyenne and the rest of the seventh grade class from STEM will walk to a pond in West Fargo to fill gallon-sized water jugs which they will carry back to their school. The water jug activity is designed to give the kids a better understanding of what life is like for those who live in remote areas of [...]
What the fire took…
Photo by Michael Vosburg, The Forum I was supposed to be on a plane about now...but last night the apartment building that both my sons live in was severely damaged in a massive fire. There was a very scary period early on in the evening when we couldn't reach via telephone or locate my older [...]
Beyond the traditional birthday gifts…
Cheyenne is an interesting kid. In-between developing and fine-tuning her delightful "tween" attitude she reads and ponders many things. She believes wholeheartedly that she can contribute to the abatement of the world's ills. She read in a magazine a couple of months ago about birthday parties wherein the birthday girl or boy asked that party [...]
THE NEW FORTY 