Charity and generosity ...
I work 9-5, five days a week day in and day out, for over 20 years now. I love my job.
I am a Corporate Project Coordinator, I get paid to organize events. The biggest projects I do are two charity events each year.
If anyone has ever tired to run a charity event you will know one simple formula that works well. Have prizes that the people want. This is where being married to an artist has come in handy for me from time to time.
Recently I held an auction, and needing as many prizes as possible I approached Clancy and asked if he would donate one of his paintings to my charity.
I smiled my cutest smile, because I had a specific painting I wanted. Wetland.
A difficult painting for me to ask him to donate, this one I liked right away and it had been above my bed for a couple of months and I had began to be quite fond of it.
But, visually it was perfect with its dynamic colours. It would show well on the auction site.
It was a great piece and sold well, a bidding war in fact.
This is not the first time I had exploited Clancy's talents at my job. Another event I run each Spring is called - Innovation Week.
Each day I try to arrange for speakers to come in that help open people minds to different concepts. Yoga, photography, and drawing, yep I had him teach a drawing class at my work.
Then there was the time, we had claimed back space in the basement of our building to turn it into a lunch room. It was dreary down there in the basement, and when brainstorming one day about how we could make it look better I said, I can get Terri to come and do a mural for us.
There he was, working on a wall 120 feet long for no money, with no luxury of space to stand back and look at what he was working on, no time to plan what he would do either he had a week to get it done.
All of these things he has done for charity causes.
My Hero.
Diana
I am a Corporate Project Coordinator, I get paid to organize events. The biggest projects I do are two charity events each year.
If anyone has ever tired to run a charity event you will know one simple formula that works well. Have prizes that the people want. This is where being married to an artist has come in handy for me from time to time.
Recently I held an auction, and needing as many prizes as possible I approached Clancy and asked if he would donate one of his paintings to my charity.
I smiled my cutest smile, because I had a specific painting I wanted. Wetland.
A difficult painting for me to ask him to donate, this one I liked right away and it had been above my bed for a couple of months and I had began to be quite fond of it.
But, visually it was perfect with its dynamic colours. It would show well on the auction site.
It was a great piece and sold well, a bidding war in fact.
This is not the first time I had exploited Clancy's talents at my job. Another event I run each Spring is called - Innovation Week.
Each day I try to arrange for speakers to come in that help open people minds to different concepts. Yoga, photography, and drawing, yep I had him teach a drawing class at my work.
Then there was the time, we had claimed back space in the basement of our building to turn it into a lunch room. It was dreary down there in the basement, and when brainstorming one day about how we could make it look better I said, I can get Terri to come and do a mural for us.
There he was, working on a wall 120 feet long for no money, with no luxury of space to stand back and look at what he was working on, no time to plan what he would do either he had a week to get it done.
All of these things he has done for charity causes.
My Hero.
Diana
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