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December 22, 2016In lieu of a post this week, I want to share the video we made to celebrate Christmas and the 2016 year. We hope you enjoy!
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Fear Not this Transition
December 7, 2016When the Masonic Home was founded, Benjamin Harrison was serving as the 23rd President of the United States. Since then, the United States has had 20-some odd Presidential transitions. There is always seems to be a certain degree of uncertainty that comes with each transfer of power. Not so much is that uncertainty about whether …Read More…
Tommy Checks In
November 15, 2016Worshipful Tommy Hayes, Chairman of the Committee on Masonic Home Ambassadors checks in with a guest post today! Hello Brothers and Friends, There are certainly some things in life that we will never fully understand, or appreciate, until we experience them, personally. The Crown Jewel of Virginia Freemasonry is very much like this. As Virginia …Read More…
Giving Tuesday
November 7, 2016Although the first day of fall is September 23, it never really feels like we’re in autumn until Halloween rolls around, especially this year, when it has felt like an extended summer. Nevertheless, we are barreling toward the end of the Masonic Year, with the Grand Annual Communication next week. We will have our annual …Read More…
Founders Month
October 20, 2016October is Founders Month in Virginia Masonry, and so I want to share with you a little about the founders of MAHOVA. A more detailed history can be found here. There are two versions of MAHOVA. Its first iteration is the Home for children. In the 1870s and 1880s, there was a need for a …Read More…
Third Quarter
October 13, 2016We are in the final quarter of the calendar year. As we start to wind down the year (and get into my favorite three month stretch) I want to share with you the progress we’ve made so far. As you can see in the infographic below, we have raised more than $954,000 thanks to almost …Read More…
From the Cutting Room Floor
September 30, 2016I give speeches every so often, and before I do, I write what a plan to say in its entirety. I never actually follow what I wrote (sometimes it’s not even close), but at least I go in with a plan. Here’s a clip that I cut out from an upcoming talk about two of …Read More…
Music Therapy
September 23, 2016The Masonic Home of Virginia is a Life Plan Community,[1] and that means that we cover a large swath of care needs. One of those needs is memory support, and I’d like to highlight its highest level – the Richard E. Brown Unit – where the Home is doing some of its greatest work. I …Read More…
Overhead
August 23, 2016There is a raging debate among nonprofits[1] about the best ways to think about overhead. The standard, canonical version is to look at general overhead expenditures (administrative costs and fundraising costs) as a measure of nonprofit effectiveness and sound governance. And this much is clear: this measure is nearly universally disliked by nonprofits. In a …Read More…
A Distant Tomorrow
August 8, 2016I have been reading a book recently, called But What if We’re Wrong?[1], wherein the author attempts to look at the present as though it were the past. The key point he makes is that it’s very, very difficult to tell what will be important in 50 years, especially when you base it on what’s …Read More…
