The Power of a Tribe
Seth Godin’s book Tribes is one of my favorite leadership books of the last several years. And just thinking of a couple of examples of a tribe acting together for a greater good in the last couple of days:
1. Jon Acuff challenged his tribe today on his blog Stuff Christians Like to give $30,000 towards building a Kindergarten School for kids in Vietnam. His tribe stepped up: $30,000 raised in 18 hours. Done. And still going. You can get involved.
2. Jeff Shinabarger and I had the pleasure of joining Tony Wood at Generate last Wednesday at Crossroads in Corona, CA. Generate is a gathering of students and young professionals. Jeff mentioned Gift Card Giver and asked students to donate cards to those in need. Over $2500 in used gift cards were gathered from this tribe of young leaders on the spot. Out of their pockets and purses. A tribe that’s been taught to be generous.
3. charity: water is up for $100,000 being given by Levi’s to a worthy cause. The charity: water tribe has stepped up and passionately voted for the organization, and currently in the lead for the 100 K with 8 days left to vote. And you can vote here. Over 10 million raised for clean water in 3 years by charity: water. The power of a tribe.
4. Thousands attend the i-heart film in theaters across the US and Canada last Wednesday. Hillsong United correctly stewards the power of gathering shown by their tribe into changed hearts, changed perspective and a renewed focus on the least of these. Well done friends, well done.
What are you doing with your tribe?
Thanks for this post.
I was reminded by Dr. John Perkins several years ago that “everybody wants to be part of something bigger.” How true. We need visionaries, leaders, and catalysst to help create venues and platforms for ideas to turn into actions.
I was blown away by my blog community who helped raise enough funds to underwrite the admin costs of One Day’s Wages for the year+ and as a result we’re able to donate 100% (minus transactions costs) of all donations to projects and organizations. We’ve raised 90K so far and we hope to raise 1million in the first year and hopefully 100 million over the next 20-25 years.
Thanks for your continual encouragement.