It’s a sweetly ironic tale about overachieving: Jean and Kevin Salwin had worked and saved and were living the dream in an elegant Atlanta mansion – the home that would make their lives beautiful and the kids happy – when their idealistic teenage daughter Hannah, troubled by the plight of a homeless man, sparked a conversation that eventually lead to the sale of the house and donation of half the proceeds ($800,000) to The Hunger Project…
Kevin (who wrote for the Wall Street Journal before becoming an entrepreneur) and daughter Hannah have written a book, The Power of Half, about the process their family went through – a process that lead to the decision to “give half.” It’s a remarkable story of how one family carried on a year-long discussion about values and priorities and meaning and the practical issues involved in giving: help one person a lot or a lot of people a little?
Get involved in an issue that impacts all social classes or focus on the needs of the poor? Donate at home or abroad?
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