The Case for Fierce Optimism

Week of October 9, 2021

The Case for Fierce Optimism

Based on her popular TEDx Talk, Dianne will explore the power of optimism to strengthen individuals and communities. This interactive dialogue will address how optimism improves your health and quality of life and fuels broader movements for positive transformation. Against all odds, Dianne will inspire you to stand firm with your optimism – because it’s good for you and even better for us!

 

Grateful Heart, Generous Spirit

Cultivating Your Gratitude

We will explore tools you can use to cultivate gratitude throughout your week at the Ranch and when you return home. A key focus will be claiming and celebrating your many personal gifts including passion, acumen, creativity, wisdom, capital, kindness and others unique to you. These gifts will inspire and anchor your giving plan.

Discerning Your Goals, Vision and Mission

To begin, we will ask questions to clarify your legacy goals. With these goals as your True North, you will discern the vision and mission for your giving as informed by your personal values and grounded in community needs.

Designing Your Giving Plan

Together we will design a short, medium and long term plan for your giving to include time, talent, treasure and testimony. In this session, we also will consider additional strategies to achieve social change including impact investing and conscious consumerism.

Releasing Your Generosity

We will examine strategies to source, vet and make charitable contributions for maximum impact. We also will explore how to avoid burnout as a volunteer and embrace funder collaborations to accelerate change including giving circles. You will be ready to return home equipped, empowered and inspired to release your generosity!

 

Dianne Bailey is an evangelist for civic leadership. She finds great joy in helping individuals, families and organizations to design, implement and evaluate their giving plans. Her belief in the powerful connection between gratitude and generosity was born on Mt. Kuchumaa twenty-five years ago. She currently serves as National Philanthropic Strategy Executive at Bank of America. Dianne’s professional commitment to nonprofits also is deeply personal. She has served on and chaired many nonprofit boards and is a passionate advocate for women’s leadership, currently serving as vice chair of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute national council. She is a frequent speaker and commentator on topics related to best practices and trends in philanthropy. Her insights have been featured in Axios, Barron’s, Business Insider and The New York Times, among other publications. In her TEDx Talk, Dianne makes The Case for Fierce Optimism. To learn more about Dianne’s passion and expertise, connect with her on Twitter @Dianne_C_Bailey.