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We’re Postponing to April to Support Local
We’re postponing a month to support local business — here’s why Woohoo! We made it through lockdown! And (fingers crossed) life will return to normal again. But this latest lockdown was still a blow for small businesses across the country. It’s just not the 3 day lockdown; though that’s bad Read more…
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Give Better Podcast
The Give Better Podcast Hi! Thanks for your interest in the Give Better podcast. Give Better is a movement of people transforming joyless spending into joyful giving, saving, and savouring the moment. We’re currently experimenting with an app, but in January next year we are launching a podcast to begin a Read more…
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Make it a Treat: Enjoy the good things in life by having them less
Make it a Treat: Enjoy the best things in life by having them less What if the way to enjoy the best things in life was to have them less? That’s the bold claim by authors, Dr Elizabeth Dunn and Dr Michael Norton, in their book “Happy Money: the Read more…
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100 Years On: A Tribute to the Auckland City Mission
100 years on: A tribute to the Auckland City Mission For 100 years, from one pandemic to another, the Auckland City Mission has served and walked alongside some of this city’s most vulnerable. The Mission was born in the immediate aftermath of the most severe pandemic in recent history, Read more…
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Home, Sweet Home
Home, Sweet Home! A reflection on lockdown in praise of the Auckland City Mission Ah, home”, we say as we return at the end a long day: “home, sweet home”. Home can be a beautiful thing. And for many of us, the idea of ‘home’ never meant so much Read more…
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Identify your ‘meh’: How to Give Better while Supporting Local
‘Identify your ‘meh’: How to Give Better while supporting local! In our animation video, we profile a few Give Better case studies, the first two of which focus on cafes and bars — two kinds of businesses which, in the current climate, are under a LOT of economic stress. Here’s Read more…
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Science Speaks: How Give Better will make you happier
How would you spend your money if your only concern was to be as happy as possible? Would you give it away?
One Month Challenge
Packed Lunches Pack Punches
July is gonna be HUGE.
Together, a community of 100 Give Better heroes will give $1,000 for our partner charities.
How? The answer resides in this picture, in one delicious looking packed lunch replete with Grandma’s leftovers …
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Savouring the Moment
How often do I buy something without thinking? It just kinda happens. Not uncommonly I regret my spending straight after. And sometimes, I’m don’t even enjoy what I just purchased!
But what if I’m missing out on the joy of the present moment?