Today, I’m thankful for operating & equipment fund donors like Ryan & Caleb. They helped me acquire a much needed piece of software I need as part of this project.

However, after corresponding with the CEO of the company behind this software, spending money to support this company was the last thing I wanted to do.

After reaching out to his company inquiring if they discounted or donated software to worthy causes, I got a thanks but no thanks response.

On the advice of one of my friends on Twitter, I wrote a personal appeal to the CEO. Turns out, the person who responded originally was in fact the CEO.

Here was his follow-up:

Hi Shawn,

I have already responded to you, but apparently my message wasn’t clear so let me spell it out. I have given a lot of money to various causes over the years and have concluded it was a complete waste. The reason why is that it was passive and reactive, with no real attention being paid to the impact it might have. My response to this is not to[...]

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