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Episode 43: “The BNI Foundation: What Every Member Should Know”

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Ivan and Beth Misner talk about the BNI-Misner Charitable Foundation. Beth has “the greatest job in the world:” awarding money to charities. She and Ivan created the foundation 9 years ago because of their belief in the importance of giving back to the community.

  • True to the spirit of BNI, grants are given out by referral only.
  • The foundation’s grants benefit children and education.
  • The foundation has given grants all over the world (e.g. a library and 2 preschools in Sri Lanka after the tsunami).
  • BNI members can make directed contributions (designate a recipient for their donations).
  • Mini-grants go to purchase books for school libraries and equipment for teachers.

Beth’s main goal for this year is to increase visibility of the Foundation within BNI and encourage members to contribute monthly.

Refer a school or charity for a mini-grant: have them e-mail bethmisner@bni.com.

Visit the Foundation Website.

Make a contribution through the California Community Foundation.

Brought to you by Networking Now.


Complete Transcription of BNI Podcast Episode 043 –

Priscilla Rice:
Hello everybody and welcome back to the Official BNI Podcast, brought to you by networkingnow.com, the leading site on the net for networking downloadables. I am Priscilla Rice coming from Live Oak Recording Studio in Berkeley, California. I’m joined on the phone today by the Founder and Chairman of BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner, as well as a very special guest, Beth Misner. What are the two of you going to talk about today, Dr. Misner?

Ivan Misner:
We’re going to talk about the BNI Misner Foundation. It’s awesome to have my lovely bride of 19 years on the podcast. This is the first podcast that you have been on with me, right, Beth?

Beth Misner:
Yes, it is. I am really happy to be here. It’s really great.

Ivan:
It’s great to have you on. Most of the BNI members know — I have always said that it is the best referral that I ever got. Beth was a member of BNI. We met back originally in 1986. We got married in 1989, and Elisabeth and I have worked in BNI for many years together. In the last number of years, she has been very active in the BNI Foundation. I thought maybe we would start my having you share, Beth, what your role is within the BNI foundation.

Beth:
When you and I started this foundation in the late 90s, about 1999, I came on board as a foundation administrator. Part of what I do is I get to oversee where the funds go that we give out every year. I tell people that I have the best job in the world. It really is great to be able to go to work and give away money to deserving charities all day. I love it.

One of the things that I do is oversee the grant requests that come in. We have a couple of parties of folks who help me oversee that and vote for them as they come in. I receive the mini grant applications, oversee the voting approval or rejection of the grant, and then once it is approved, I actually fund it. Then, if I am able to, I go out to the charities and do the public gifting of the grant, if you will, which is a thrill. I really love that part.

Ivan:
It’s a combination of members of the Board of Advisors for BNI members and some directors who are involved in the selection of the grant. Is that correct?

Beth:
That’s right. Right now, we are basically doing an e-mail vote out to the Executive Board of Advisors and a new body that I’ve created which is the BNI Director’s Fund Development Committee. So we are getting BNI directors involved in getting these grants approved.

Part of my reason for doing that now, Ivan, as you and I talked about, is that we really want to move BNI’s foundation into a similar model as BNI is itself, in that the grants are given out by referral only. As directors and members become more aware of what charities there are in their own communities that could benefit from a grant from the BNI Foundation, they can then referrer those folks into us to apply for a grant.

Ivan:
I should have brought this up in the very beginning, but the BNI Foundation was created because we believe that it’s important to put back into the community from which we draw. That is why we formed it nine years ago.

I think that this podcast is really valuable for the average BNI member to know what the foundation is about because the average member doesn’t really know what the foundation is about and what its focus is. This podcast’s goal here is to really educate our members as to what we are doing with this foundation to contribute back to the local communities. That really leads me to my next question. Why have we started the foundation? Would you like to talk a little bit about that?

Beth:
Absolutely. I would love to. You and I both shared a common vision for the purpose of the foundation. We both really, when we were talking about it, agreed that equipping the leaders of tomorrow, or business leaders, community leaders, government leaders, with solid education was paramount. We’d like to provide for gaps that are present due to lack of funding sources in our educational system.

The Board of Advisors got together and kind of put together a mission statement for us, and basically, we have a two-pronged focus. That is children and education. Most of the grants that we do review are specifically going to benefit children and education in some way. We do get grants from time to time that don’t fall within those guidelines and if it is a directed grant by a BNI member who has themselves contributed over $250, then the grants can be directed back out.

We are part of the California Community Foundation as a fund within their governing body there. So we are able to give charitable grants to any nonprofit in the country. But for the BNI Foundation grants, we only sponsor those for children and education.

Ivan:
Just a couple of points. We can actually do grants anywhere in the world, and we have given grants all over the world. Correct?

Beth:
Yes, absolutely. The members really were supportive with major world events like the tsunami. We got grants coming in from all over the world and we were actually able to rebuild some preschools and a library in Sri Lanka. I am really proud of the members for coming up to the plate with funds and making contributions that helped make that possible.

Ivan:
Just so everyone understands a directed contribution, somebody may want to contribute money through the BNI Foundation and have it go to a specific charity. That is possible, but one of the things that we are really trying to do is build our general fund which goes specifically for mini grants for children and education. That’s really one of the reasons why we are doing this podcast to let people know what we are doing with this foundation and that we are contributing to mini grants.

One of my favorite examples of the mini grants that we have given — and may be you can get a couple of others — we have actually done this now, I think, with a number of schools. There are many schools where there are so many cutbacks in the schools that it’s either hard to get students into the library, there’s not enough books in the library or the library isn’t a library open, if you can believe that. The library is not open enough hours.

A number of the grants that we have done have been to provide books. We have bought hundreds or many, many thousands of books for teachers so that they have a mini library of books in their classroom. I remember one teacher saying, “I can’t teach math. I can’t teach science. I can’t teach reading. I can’t teach anything if they don’t have books. And I can’t get books in their hands and less I have some in my classroom.” That was one of the first mini grants that we did directly for a class which was to buy books.

I love that as an example. Do you want to give a couple of other examples of some of the mini grants that we’ve given?

Beth:
Absolutely. One I got really excited about what’s a school whose computer aid teacher applied for mini grant for computer software program, some video equipment. She was equipping her students to be able to do video presentations. I could see how this would be used for them in a profession or a career. They put together video diaries, and they played it for the school and uploaded it to the school website. It was just phenomenal.

Those were items that she wanted to purchase that fell outside of the school budget. When we were reviewing the grant we took a look at it and said this is really going to benefit these kids in the future. And in libraries for schools area, we had a special school at a boys and girls home in our local area. These kids don’t have access to the public library. They have no way to get there. The BNI Foundation has through the years, year after year, granted gifts to them of $1000 at a time, and they are building out their library, which is phenomenal.

Ivan:
Yeah. These are really exciting grants that we are getting out. Again, it’s not just in the United States. It’s not just in California where BNI headquarters is. We’re giving these grants out all over the United States and all over the world. I would estimate that we’ve given grants out in at least 10 countries. Is that probably fairly close?

Beth:
I think you’re right. Yeah.

Ivan:
We are running out of time. I want to give two links and then ask you to wrap up with what your goals are for the foundation. These are links that are important for BNI members. One is to foundation website, BNI.org. You can also get there from BNI.com where it says “Foundation” on the left. If you go to BNI.org, that will take you to the BNI Misner Charitable Foundation website.

Then there will be another link if members or directors would like to make a contribution to the foundation which will take you to the California Community Foundation. As Beth mentioned earlier, we are part of this very, very large foundation. We are a sub foundation under that. You can actually make credit card contributions to the California Community Foundation which the BNI Foundation is a part of. Then, just to wrap up, what are your goals for the foundation? We have about a minute left.

Beth:
Okay, I will try to give you all of my goals in less than a minute. I was so inspired by meeting Richard Branson this summer. Seeing the attention that he pays to charitable work really inspired me to treat the foundation as more than just a personal hobby. One of my main goals is to increase the visibility for the foundation within BNI.

I am putting together a program called BNI Monthly Heroes. This will be a program that is targeting BNI members, directors and anyone involved with our organization that you want, to get involved and contribute a minimum of $50 a month to our general fund. Last year, we gave out $140,000 in mini grants but we only received $40,000 in contributions. We want to do what we can to encourage members to contribute on a monthly basis.

I want to really get our whole corporate culture moved over to having referral only receipt of mini grant applications. I really want to let members know to contact your local schools, your local charities that benefit children and invite them to connect with us to apply for a mini grant. My e-mail address is BethMisner@BNI.com. When you want to make a referral, you just have that referral e-mail me and let me know that you referred them to me, and I will take it from there.

And then I have some personal goals — in developing my role as administrator and networking with people like Richard Branson’s Virgin Unite coordinator. Jean and I have already had a couple of conversations. I am working with the Drucker School of Management. Their Dean there is formerly from a charity in Boston. I just want to get better at what I do so that we can help more kids in their educational programs.

Ivan:
Thanks Beth. We will make sure that your e-mail address is on there so that any BNI members who have any questions about the foundation or how to contribute or support it can do so.

By the way, you talked about Richard Branson. For listeners of this podcast, I did an entire podcast on the butterfly effect of networking. If you have an opportunity, go back and listen to that podcast because I talk about Beth and I having an opportunity to meet Richard on his island, Necker Island, in the Caribbean. It’s a great story and a good segue.

Well listen, for all of you who are listening to this podcast, I just want to say you really are part of the great organization. BNI is not just about generating business for ourselves but we are also about supporting the local communities. I firmly believe that you may not be able to make a world of difference but you can make a difference in the world.

BNI is changing the way the world does business through givers gain and supporting other businesses through relationship networking, but we’re also helping local communities through these mini grant programs. I urge you to take a look at the website and connect with Beth. Become one of our monthly heroes that she’s creating where you make a contribution on a regular basis that goes to children and education. Thank you very much for being on this podcast and join me on some future ones.

Beth:
I would love to. Thanks for having me here, Ivan.

Ivan:
Alright. Back to you, Priscilla.

Priscilla:
That was just great. It makes me really proud to be a part of this organization. I think probably there are a lot of members who don’t even know about the foundation. Thanks, both of you, for letting us know about that. This podcast has been brought to you by networkingnow.com, the leading site on the net for networking downloadables. Thanks for listening. This is Priscilla Rice, and we look forward to having you join us again next week for another exciting episode of the Official BNI Podcast.


Episode 79: “BNI Foundation Monthly Heroes”

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Dr. Misner is joined by his wife Beth to talk abut the new BNI Misner Foundation Monthly Heroes program, started in September 2008. Because of the large number of donations it makes around the world, the BNI Foundation needs to increase the donations it collects.

The Monthly Heroes program recognizes those who support the Foundation’s general fund, which provides mini-grants of about $1000 to charities that support children and education.

Chapters can also make directed contributions, which go to the chapter represented by the charity. 100% of donations go to the charity. Non-profit groups that are members of local chapters can benefit from these directed contributions.

The BNI Misner Foundation can provide additional publicity for a chapter’s charitable contributions.

Visit the new BNI Misner Foundation Website at www.bnifoundation.org or send e-mail to foundation [at] bni [dot] com.

Brought to you by Networking Now.


Complete Transcription of BNI Podcast Episode 079 –

Priscilla:
Hello everyone, and welcome back to The Official BNI Podcast brought to you by NetworkingNow.com, which is the leading site on the Net for networking downloadables.

I am Priscilla Rice, and I’m coming to you from Live Oak Recording Studio in Berkley, California , and I am joined on the phone today by the founder and the chairman of BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner.

Hello, Ivan. How are you?

Ivan:
I am doing great, Priscilla. Thank you very much.

I’ve got with us today my lovely bride, Elizabeth Misner. Beth is the administrator for the BNI Foundation and the co-founder of the BNI Foundation. And with this podcast, we thought we’d talk a little bit about the Monthly Heroes Program. Last month, October, was our first ever BNI Foundation Awareness Month, and so I thought it would be good to have Beth come on and talk a little bit about that and the Monthly Hero Program.

Beth, welcome to the podcast.

Beth:
Thank you very much, Ivan, and thanks for giving me the chance to come in and talk about what I love the most, the BNI Misner Foundation. And I am happy to be able to talk about the BNI Monthly Heroes. This is a program that we started in January of 2008. It has been so successful, and I am so excited about it that I want to really open it up to the rest of the membership of BNI.

What we did was we took a look at all of the great mini grants that we were gifting all over the world, because our mini grants truly are gifted internationally; we don’t just give gifts in one country above another. And we were looking at how much we are giving out and recognizing that we need to do something to increase what was coming into the general fund. The year 2007, we actually donated more than was coming into the fund.

Ivan:
Eventually, that’s a bit of a problem.

Beth:
Yes, that’s going to create an issue. We’re going to stop being able to be giver’s gain of players here. So, the membership hasn’t really been made aware of the BNI Monthly Hero Program yet, because we only experimented in the beginning with the BNI directors being involved in that, and it has been tremendous.

I have to tell you, Ivan, the stories that I am getting from the BNI directors who have been involved now at this level. They are having so much fun with this. They are really enjoying BNI being able to be part of what we’re doing in the BNI Misner Foundation, so that has been gratifying for me.

Ivan:
So the Heroes Program I want you to explain, but before we do, can we talk very briefly about what kind of grants are given and the difference between our general fund and directed donations? It’s really important, I think, for members to understand the difference between the general fund and directed donations, because we do both.

Beth:
Absolutely. I’d be happy to delineate that.

The BNI Monthly Hero contribution, which is a minimum of $50 per month to participate, is supporting our general fund, and our general fund is being used to give mini grants to charitable organizations that benefit children’s educational programs. In the BNI Foundation, we really believe that we can improve the business of tomorrow through education today. So that’s our focus with all the general fund donations that are coming in.

We do, however, have a vehicle by which chapters and members can specify to whom their mini grant would go. So if you have a local charity that has nothing do to with children and education, let’s say it’s benefiting animals like a humane society, you may still make your donation through the BNI Misner Foundation and direct it back out to the local humane society. Now, that type of a directed donation wouldn’t qualify as part of the BNI Monthly Heroes Program, because the Monthly Heroes Program is going in to bolster up our general fund.

Ivan:
Let’s differentiate here for people so that it’s really clear.

The Monthly Heroes Program supports the general fund, and the general fund contributes for mini grants to children and educational programs. That’s the focus. And the mini grants are around $1,000, but that’s likely to be going up in the next year or so. We average a $40- to $50,000 a year in mini grants. That doesn’t count the big programs that we do.

But now what you’ve just gone through and you’re talking about is that if a chapter has its own pet project and they want to do a directed fund for something specific to their local community, they can also do that, which is not part of the general fund, not part of the Monthly Heroes, but a directed contribution. And they would give that to the Foundation, and the Foundation would direct that to the charity of that chapter’s choice.

And what percentage of that money goes to the charity?

Beth:
I’m glad you asked, because I think it’s important for members to know that 100% of the donation goes right back out to their charity. And you know, the great thing is what if they have a BNI chapter member who’s in the chapter representing a charity.

Ivan:
Yeah, that’s important.

Beth:
That is a double whammy, because you’re able to make a BNI Misner Foundation donation, a minimum has to be $250, and you’re able to direct that right back out to your chapter member. So we think that’s pretty tremendous.

Ivan:
So if there’s a non-profit who’s a member of a local chapter, the BNI Foundation doesn’t compete with that non-profit. If anything, we can support that non-profit by the local chapter giving a donation to the BNI Foundation and directing it to the member of that chapter who is a non-profit organization. And 100% of that money – no administrative fees are taken out; 100% of it goes to the chapter member.

So what we’re trying to do with the Foundation is, we know that there are chapters out there who really want to contribute in a community service kind of way to the communities that they come from, and we want to help provide a venue for them to do that or a mechanism for them to do that. BNI is not a charitable organization; we’re not a service club. But we also understand that there’s a need to contribute to the local communities, and so the BNI Foundation is sort of a mechanism to help chapters carry that out either through the general fund or through directed giving.

Beth:
That’s right.

Priscilla:
Could I ask a question?

Ivan:
Yeah, go ahead.

Beth:
Of course, you can.

Priscilla:
Can you explain to me, what would be the advantage both to the Foundation and also to the member if they wanted to give a donation, let’s say, to your local humane society, why would we go through the Foundation, who would then give it to the humane society rather than just giving it directly to the humane society? Is there some reason that it would be…

Ivan:
That is a great question. Beth, if you want to add on to this, feel free.

The BNI Foundation, as I mentioned, we give up to $50,000 a year in various mini grants, so from the local chapter’s perspective, it’s a more powerful PR mechanism for them, because let’s say you gave $500 to the humane society. A $500 contribution, you’re not going to get any recognition locally for that, but you could do a press release for the local chapter and say that the local BNI chapter contributed money to the humane society, and the BNI Foundation does over $50,000 a year in mini grants locally.

So the $50,000 is a bigger number than the $500. It kind of centralizes everything to give a greater ability for the local chapters to get recognition in the local communities for the overall good of the organization.

Is there anything you’d add to that, Beth?

Beth:
The only thing that I would have to add is that when it is a donation that is being directed back out from the BNI Misner Foundation, it gives the chapter the recognition, the chapter, the regional director, the local director, the executive director can be part of that and come out and do a big presentation with a check, have some PR that can be done around that, that gives a little mileage to the donation.

Ivan:
That’s a good point. Many directors work with the BNI and the BNI Foundation, and many of them have or can do a big check. It comes out, it’s from the BNI Foundation, it goes to the humane society. So you are using the BNI Foundation as a vehicle for distributing funds and getting better recognition.

Beth:
It’s great for PR.

Priscilla:
Does it also help the Foundation itself?

Beth:
Well, it helps our bottom line in that at the end of the year, we include those directed donations in the number that we say we gifted throughout the course of the year. So, absolutely, it does help us.

Ivan:
It does, because it enables us to say the BNI organization gave $40- or $50- or $60,000 instead of just $10- or $20- or $30,000. For example, when we had big, big things like Hurricane Katrina and 9/11, on those years, particularly Hurricane Katrina, BNI Foundation contributed over $120,000 to the various Hurricane Katrina funds like the Red Cross. And that’s powerful. An individual chapter may have only given a few hundred, but they’re part of an organization that gave $120,000, and that goes a lot further than saying, “I gave a $200 contribution.”

Priscilla:
Great.

Beth:
Well, in the time remaining, Ivan, I’d like to talk about the BNI Foundation Web site, because we do have a brand new Web site. I’d love to give the Web site address. That is: www.BNIFounation.org and we’ve got some great, new exciting stuff, interactives, some new technology on the Foundation Web site, and I’d love everyone to come on over there and check it out.

We recently did about a four hour Web-a-thon for BNI Foundation Awareness Month, and we’re going to have some of the segments of archived on the Web site. And any other Webcasts in the future that we do will be taking place right there on the Web site.

Ivan:
Well, excellent. Beth, I really appreciate you coming on to talk about the BNI Foundation, and I hope that members get some information, go to BNIFoundation.org, learn a little bit more about the BNI Foundation.

If you have some questions, where can people contact the Foundation, Beth?

Beth:
The e-mail address is: Foundation@BNI.com. You can e-mail directly to that e-mail address, or you can fill out a contact form at the Foundation Web site, which is BNIFoundation.org. There are those two great ways to get in touch with us.

Ivan:
Well, I talked about this in some previous podcasts, but I really believe, and I know Beth believes, that you may not be able to make a world of difference, but you can make a difference in the world. And I think that BNI Foundation is helping to do that. We certainly appreciate any BNI members that would like to use the Foundation to help do some good around the world.

I thank you very much for being on, Beth.

Priscilla, I’ll turn it back over to you.

Priscilla:
Okay, great. Thank you both for being a part of all that and for creating that for the rest of us.

Beth:
You are more than welcome. And thank you.

Ivan:
You know what? I’m going to add one more thing for the listeners.

When you go to BNIFoundation.org, you can see some great examples of contributions that have been done over the last year or two. As time goes on, we’ll put up some of that so you can see some of the kinds of things that the general fund money is going for.

Back to you, Priscilla.

Priscilla:
Okay, thanks.

Well, I want to just remind the listeners that this podcast has been brought to you by NetworkingNow.com, which is the leading site on the Net for networking downloadables. Thanks so much for listening. This is Priscilla Rice, and we hope you will join us next week for another exciting episode of The Official BNI Podcast.

Episode 119: “BNI Foundation Awareness”

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This week Dr. Misner is joined by his wife, Beth, who introduces the new BNI Foundation Fan Club. This is a Ning social network for people involved with the BNI Foundation. There’s a rotating photo album showing the charities the foundation is involved in, discussion boards on topics like Givers Gain grants, and a chance for members to build relationships with the charities. Members can ask questions about the foundations and join special groups. Cys Bronner moderates the Ning network. BNI members are encouraged to join the BNI Foundation Fan Club.

October is BNI Foundation Awareness Month. The last week of October is the Each 1 Give 1 to Teach 1 Initiative. We are issuing a challenge to each and every member of BNI to donate ONE dollar/euro/yen/peso (insert your nation’s currency here) or more during the last week of October 2009. Chapter leadership teams will be given more information in September.

For more information about the BNI Foundation, contact Beth Misner at foundation [at] bni [dot] com.

Brought to you by Networking Now.

Complete Transcription of BNI Podcast Episode 119 –

Priscilla:
Hello everyone, and welcome back to The Official BNI Podcast brought to you by NetworkingNow.com, which is the leading site on the Net for networking downloadables.

I’m Priscilla Rice, and I’m coning to you from Live Oak Recording Studio in Berkley, California, and I am joined on the phone today by the founder and the chairman of BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner.

Hello, Ivan. How are you, and where are you?

Ivan:
Hi, Priscilla. I am doing great, and I am at our lake house retreat in Big Bear, California with my lovely bride, Elizabeth, who is on the line with us today. We are pulling away from some vacation time to record this podcast about the BNI Foundation, something very near and dear to both Elizabeth and I, so I have invited her to be my guest on the podcast today.

Beth, hi.

Elizabeth:
Hey, Ivan. Hi, Priscilla.

Priscilla:
Hi, Beth.

Ivan:
I think we would like to start¸ Beth, maybe by having you talk a little bit about the BNI Foundation Fan Club. Would you tell the listeners about that.

Elizabeth:
I would be glad to, thanks. We have started a fan club for the BNI Foundation. There is so much going on, and it changes on such a regular basis that I didn’t want to clutter our foundation Web site. The foundation Web site is a great place to go for general information. We do have some updates posted there, but it is not a real live community where BNI members and charities who are interested in applying for a BNI Foundation mini grant or Givers Gain grant, as we have started calling them, can really go for dialogue or ask questions or talk with other BNI members about what the foundation is doing and what is going on.

We started a fan club site. It is listed at a Ning community so the web address is BNIFoundationSans.ning.com. You can also click through the BNIFoundation.org Web site to get right into the foundation fan club. At the Web site, we have got a lot of cool features that being a Ning community allows us to have. We have a photo album that rotates through a slideshow of photos from, not only things that you and I have done, Ivan, with the BNI Foundation, but things that are being done out in other regions with fundraisers that chapters and regions are doing for the BNI Foundation. That is a lot of fun to kind of page through that.

We also have some discussion boards. The primary discussion board is where we are talking about Givers Gain grants that are in the pipeline, so things that have been applied for funding, projects, programs, teachers who are looking for a little bit of help, and we’re able to put the applications up on the Web site there and also invite the teachers to come in and talk about their project with our community.

You are going to see BNI members and BNI directors actually conversing with the charities. Guess what they are doing. They are building a relationship with these charities, most of whom maybe know someone in BNI that don’t really know a whole lot about BNI, so it is a great introduction to the charities that apply to see that we are a relationship marketing organization. I am pretty excited about that aspect of the fan club.

We also have a place for general discussion and an area where members or directors who have questions about the foundation can post those. They are facilitated by our very own Cys Bronner, who is a BNI director here in the LA area. I pop onto the board from time to time so you will see some questions answered by myself, but for the most part, we have her facilitating the site. We have some special groups.

Ivan:
BNI members are welcome to jump on there and join the Ning Foundation community, right?

Elizabeth:
Absolutely, welcome and encouraged.

Ivan:
So if you are listening to this podcast, we would love to have you, if you have any interest in what BNI is doing with the foundation, to join the community.

Elizabeth:
That is so true. Thank you for bringing that out. One of the really cool things I like is that as members join the community, they are posting their photographs so we get to see your beautiful faces alongside your names and comments, which is fabulous for me. It helps you and it helps me, Ivan, to get to know who our supporters are out there in the world, which is awesome.

Ivan:
Well, we are running out of time, and there is some content which I would love to talk about and that is the October BNI Foundation Awareness Month. Would you share a little bit of information about that, Beth.

Elizabeth:
I would be glad to. Every October we do a BNI Foundation Awareness Month within the organization, and this year, 2009, for the very first time we are doing a very special initiative. The last week of October, the week of October 20th through the end, we are doing Each 1 Give 1 to Teach 1. That is an initiative where we are challenging BNI members around the world to partner with us in making a difference in children’s educational programs by giving one dollar at your chapter.

Ivan:
Or one pound or one euro or one yen.

Elizabeth:
That is right, one yen, one euro, or more, whatever you feel like you would like to contribute. Chapter leadership teams are going to be given information in September as they transition to come back to the chapters to start making announcements throughout the month of October. We are putting this up on the BNI.com Web site. It is insouciant, and it is also going to be available at the BNI Foundation Fan Club site, so you can get more information in many of those different places.

Ivan:
We have something pretty exciting that is going to happen in the next year or two. The BNI Foundation will hit the $1,000,000 mark, we anticipate within the next year and a half to two years, in terms of donations. At this point, the BNI Foundation has given away over $850,000 in donations to charitable organizations. We are hoping to hit the $1,000,000 mark within the next couple of years.

Elizabeth:
And you know what? We are excited about that, but we want to congratulate our members, as well, who have supported that and have made that happen.

Ivan:
Absolutely, and the Each 1 Give 1 to Teach 1 initiative I think will help to throw us over that $1,000,000 in contributions that the organization has done which have done a lot of good in many communities around the world.

Elizabeth:
Absolutely, yup, and that will be fantastic.

Ivan:
Well, it is about time for us to wrap up. Any closing comments, Beth? I am not sure that the members know that you are the foundation administrator and that is why you are on this podcast. Will you give everyone the BNI Foundation Web site.

Elizabeth:
Absolutely, www.bnifoundation.org or you can email me at foundation@bni.com. I would be happy to see you at the fan club. And thank you for your time today.

Ivan:
Thanks, Beth.
Back to you, Priscilla.

Priscilla:
Great, thank you both. That was really informative.

That was it for this week, and I want to thank you and let the listeners know that this podcast has been brought to you by NetworkingNow.com which is the leading site on the Net for networking downloadables. Thanks so much for listening. This is Priscilla Rice, and we hope you’ll join us next week for another exciting episode of The Official BNI Podcast.

Episode 395: Business Voices

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Synopsis

Dr. Misner’s wife Beth joins him on the podcast today to talk about Business Voices, which is an initiative of the BNI Foundation.

Social consciousness and service are important to BNI. If you’re not in a healthy, strong community, your business can only go so far. A business that is successful and sustainable can serve a larger purpose in the community.

In a conversation about the “B” team, Richard Branson shared with Dr. Misner how important it is for businesses to think about people first, then the planet, and profits third. This conversation inspired Beth Misner with the Business Voices idea.

Business Voices is an initiative of the BNI Foundation, but it’s open to other organizations. It’s about giving businesses a voice in what happens in communities around the world.

The primary focus of BNI Voices is children and education. To get involved, visit BusinessVoices.org, follow the Business Voices Facebook Page, or join the Business Voices group on BNI Connect, or attend a monthly spotlight webinar.

Watch the video of Dr. Misner talking to Richard Branson about the “B” team.

Brought to you by Networking Now.

Complete Transcript of Episode 395 –

Priscilla:
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Official BNI Podcast, brought to you by NetworkingNow.com, the leading site on the net for networking downloadables. I am Priscilla Rice, and I am coming to you from Live Oak Recording Studio in Berkeley, CA. I am joined on the phone today by the Founder of BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner. Hello, Ivan. How are you and where are you?

Ivan:
Hey, I am actually at home today. I am not on the road this week. I have a special guest with me and we are here in our place in Austin. I am actually looking out my window at the State Capitol, which makes my guest very happy. It is actually my wife who is with me today. Hi Beth.

Beth:
Hi honey. Right here in Austin, TX and it is a very good thing.

Ivan:
Beth is a Texan and she reminds me of it regularly.

We have an interesting topic today. For those of you who don’t know Beth, she is the Co-Founder of the BNI Foundation, which we started in 1998, I think?

Beth:
1998.

Ivan:
1998. She has also been very involved in BNI almost since the very beginning. She was a BNI member in 1986, and we started going out in 1988. We got married in 1989. It was the best referral I ever got. Thanks for being on the podcast today, Beth.

Beth:
Thanks for having me. I am very passionate about this topic as you know so I am very grateful to be on the show today.

Ivan:
We are talking about Business Voices, which is an initiative of the BNI Foundation, and I think a great place to start would be with the work the foundation does- why is that important to BNI? Why is social consciousness and service to the community important to BNI in your opinion? I have an opinion, but I would like to hear yours.

Beth:
Sure. I think that it is so very important to be fully engaged in one’s community. You can have a business and be in business and be growing your business, but if don’t have a healthy, strong community, your business can only go so far. Being very conscious about what is happening in your surroundings relating to school, relating to social causes, relating to even health is very, very important.

Ivan:
Yes, I think that as a successful business person, I have an obligation to put back into the community from which I draw. You know, you and I agreed about that in the late 90’s and we formed the BNI Foundation. I think if a business is successful and sustainable as a business, it can then serve a larger purpose in society.

In a community, the stakeholders are many people. As you said, the community itself has to be healthy in order for the businesses in the community to be healthy.

Beth:
Yes. It is not either or. Is it?

Ivan:
No, it is not. We have spent some time a year ago on Necar Island, you and I. We had a fair amount of time to spend with Richard Branson. Necar Island belongs to Richard Branson, and I had a chance to interview him for an interview on my blog, IvanMisner.com. We talked about the B Team. You were our camera person. You did a great job, thank you.

Beth:
Thank you.

Ivan:
We talked about the B Team, which stands for Business Team and how it is really important for business to put back and give to the community, to be thinking about people first, to be thinking about the planet and to be thinking about profits third. If you are listening to this podcast and haven’t had a chance to watch the video, please take a look at it.

I think his business B Team concept really in many ways integrates well with your Business Voices concept. Do you want to tell our BNI members a little bit about what Business Voices is?

Beth:
Sure. I would love to. Your point about Richard’s focus on the B Team is really kind of what got the Business Voices idea going in my mind because he talked with us a little bit about how there are social ills on the planet, and we as a society, tend to wait for the government to come in and fix it. His perspective and ours as we have done this work a little longer is that we don’t want to wait anymore for civil servants and social services to come up with solutions.

We believe, you and I do, Ivan- and the members and Directors who are really plugging into the Business Voices movement are really coming to see- that we have the resources that are so desperately needed and we don’t have a lot of the red tape that is currently paralyzing the needs. We have a middle school teacher that we have been talking with in Ferguson, Missouri of all places. He shared with us that when he puts in a requisition for funds to buy software for his technology classroom, it can take up to nine months for him to get approved to purchase those elements of the things he needs to teach well.

We don’t have those restrictions as a business community. We can find out about a need, we can go to our BNI chapter members, and we can say here is the item that is needed and here is who needs it. Maybe they have been invited to the chapter to talk about it. We can start filling those gaps.

We are seeing that already happening, certainly in America, where the Business Voices movement is really gaining some traction. And we have eight other countries within BNI where we are implementing our movement in their counties as well. It is really about not waiting anymore. We are tired of waiting. The waiting is not helping. We are not seeing solutions, really, coming to the floor. So we want to get involved and do things that help make systemic change.

Ivan:
The Business Voices movement is part of the BNI Foundation, but it is just an initiative of the BNI Foundation. It is open to other organizations. Really, it is about giving business a voice in what happens in communities around the world.

For BNI, much of what we have done in the past, and I think in the future, is to focus on children and education. That has been the primary focus of the BNI Foundation. That choice was made by the Board of Advisors. BNI has a board of BNI members from all around the world and they selected children and education.

So how is the BNI Foundation leveraging our positive impact of the foundation as part of the Business Voices movement? And most importantly, how can BNI members who care about their community get involved with the BNI Foundation and get involved in Business Voices?

Beth:
I love that question. There are many ways to plug in. Probably the first thing a BNI member may want to do is to find out a little bit more about the movement. We have a website, BusinessVoices.org. We also have a BNI Connect group for Business Voices. We have a very active Facebook page and on the Facebook Page of the BNI Connect group and our web page, you will also see links posted of upcoming webinars.

We are doing monthly webinars that are focusing on nations organizations. They are organizations like Boys and Girls Club, Motivating a Teen Spirit, Stand Up America. They have things probably happening in your community because they are large national movements.

Ivan:
And we are doing these worldwide, not just in North America but in other places around the world there are Business Voices programs.

Beth:
That’s right. In the US, we are doing this monthly spotlight webinar. The other countries, as soon as they have identified their spotlight focus- ours, obviously, is increasing graduation rates. We want to see the graduation rates in the United States go up by 10%.

In Japan, the focus is likely to be preventing teen suicide because the teen suicide rate is so very high. So they will have spotlight webinars focusing on organizations that are doing great work and having measurable results in those areas.

But in the US, our approach is finding these organizations that I mentioned, bringing them on to the webinar, letting them share a little bit more about the effectiveness that they are having, the results that they are seeing. And then, for the member, go find the Boys and Girls Club director in your community and then invite him or her to a BNI chapter meeting and ask that famous BNI question, “How can I help you?”

Ivan:
The BNI Foundation has done some amazing work under your stewardship. The organization have given away over $3,000,000 since its inception in 1998. But the Business Voices is more than just about money. It is also about time. Rather than- you know, not everybody has money to contribute but they do have time. Mentorship. Personal engagement and involvement.

That is what I really liked about Business Voices. We kind of have a fairly large network out there and there might be some people who would be willing to help in some way. So I urge people to go to BNIFoundation.com, I believe, right?

Beth:
.org but .com will get you there too. We did them both for that reason.

Ivan:
BNIFoundation.org and BusinessVoices.org to find out information about what your organization’s charitable arm is doing.

You know, I think business can be noble. Business can do things in society to make it a better place. And sometimes it seems so overwhelming. You may not be able to make a world of difference, but you can make a difference in the world. I think Business Voices is one of the ways that we as an organization are practicing conscious capitalism.

I want to just thank you, Beth. Any closing comment before we wrap up?

Beth:
I just really appreciate the time with you, Ivan, to be able to bring this to more members’ attention and awareness. I would love to ask an action step, if I could, of the people who listen to the podcast. At BusinessVoices.org we have a “Join Our Movement” button. If you would help us move that counter higher and higher, we would love for you to join our movement.

From time to time, we will send you updates. I don’t have an account that sends you automatic messages and emails. You will get a personal email from me with a message from me and Ivan personally. If you could help us out by joining our movement and then staying close to us, learn what we are doing, and then how you can help bring awareness more to your chapter, we would be really grateful.

Ivan:
BusinessVoices.org is an initiative of BNI. Elizabeth, thank you so much for everything that you do. You have been part of the organization for 29 years now, and you and I just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary, so it is fantastic to be a partner with you in life and in business.

Beth:
I agree with you.

Ivan:
Thanks. Back to you, Priscilla.

Priscilla:
I want to thank both of you for coming up with this great initiative which allows BNI members to interact with their communities and make positive changes. I think it’s great. I would just like to remind the listeners that this podcast has been brought to you by NetworkingNow.com, which is the leading site on the net for networking downloadables. Thank you so much for listening. This is Priscilla Rice, and we hope you will join us next week for another exciting episode of The Official BNI Podcast.

Episode 465: Business Voices (Classic Podcast)

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This is a rebroadcast of Episode 395.

Synopsis

Dr. Misner’s wife Beth joins him on the podcast today to talk about Business Voices, which is an initiative of the BNI Foundation.

Social consciousness and service are important to BNI. If you’re not in a healthy, strong community, your business can only go so far. A business that is successful and sustainable can serve a larger purpose in the community.

In a conversation about the “B” team, Richard Branson shared with Dr. Misner how important it is for businesses to think about people first, then the planet, and profits third. This conversation inspired Beth Misner with the Business Voices idea.

Business Voices is an initiative of the BNI Foundation, but it’s open to other organizations. It’s about giving businesses a voice in what happens in communities around the world.

The primary focus of BNI Voices is children and education. To get involved, visit BusinessVoices.org, follow the Business Voices Facebook Page, or join the Business Voices group on BNI Connect, or attend a monthly spotlight webinar.

Watch the video of Dr. Misner talking to Richard Branson about the “B” team.

Brought to you by Networking Now.

Complete Transcript of Episode 395 –

Priscilla:
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Official BNI Podcast, brought to you by NetworkingNow.com, the leading site on the net for networking downloadables. I am Priscilla Rice, and I am coming to you from Live Oak Recording Studio in Berkeley, CA. I am joined on the phone today by the Founder of BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner. Hello, Ivan. How are you and where are you?

Ivan:
Hey, I am actually at home today. I am not on the road this week. I have a special guest with me and we are here in our place in Austin. I am actually looking out my window at the State Capitol, which makes my guest very happy. It is actually my wife who is with me today. Hi Beth.

Beth:
Hi honey. Right here in Austin, TX and it is a very good thing.

Ivan:
Beth is a Texan and she reminds me of it regularly.

We have an interesting topic today. For those of you who don’t know Beth, she is the Co-Founder of the BNI Foundation, which we started in 1998, I think?

Beth:
1998.

Ivan:
1998. She has also been very involved in BNI almost since the very beginning. She was a BNI member in 1986, and we started going out in 1988. We got married in 1989. It was the best referral I ever got. Thanks for being on the podcast today, Beth.

Beth:
Thanks for having me. I am very passionate about this topic as you know so I am very grateful to be on the show today.

Ivan:
We are talking about Business Voices, which is an initiative of the BNI Foundation, and I think a great place to start would be with the work the foundation does- why is that important to BNI? Why is social consciousness and service to the community important to BNI in your opinion? I have an opinion, but I would like to hear yours.

Beth:
Sure. I think that it is so very important to be fully engaged in one’s community. You can have a business and be in business and be growing your business, but if don’t have a healthy, strong community, your business can only go so far. Being very conscious about what is happening in your surroundings relating to school, relating to social causes, relating to even health is very, very important.

Ivan:
Yes, I think that as a successful business person, I have an obligation to put back into the community from which I draw. You know, you and I agreed about that in the late 90’s and we formed the BNI Foundation. I think if a business is successful and sustainable as a business, it can then serve a larger purpose in society.

In a community, the stakeholders are many people. As you said, the community itself has to be healthy in order for the businesses in the community to be healthy.

Beth:
Yes. It is not either or. Is it?

Ivan:
No, it is not. We have spent some time a year ago on Necar Island, you and I. We had a fair amount of time to spend with Richard Branson. Necar Island belongs to Richard Branson, and I had a chance to interview him for an interview on my blog, IvanMisner.com. We talked about the B Team. You were our camera person. You did a great job, thank you.

Beth:
Thank you.

Ivan:
We talked about the B Team, which stands for Business Team and how it is really important for business to put back and give to the community, to be thinking about people first, to be thinking about the planet and to be thinking about profits third. If you are listening to this podcast and haven’t had a chance to watch the video, please take a look at it.

I think his business B Team concept really in many ways integrates well with your Business Voices concept. Do you want to tell our BNI members a little bit about what Business Voices is?

Beth:
Sure. I would love to. Your point about Richard’s focus on the B Team is really kind of what got the Business Voices idea going in my mind because he talked with us a little bit about how there are social ills on the planet, and we as a society, tend to wait for the government to come in and fix it. His perspective and ours as we have done this work a little longer is that we don’t want to wait anymore for civil servants and social services to come up with solutions.

We believe, you and I do, Ivan- and the members and Directors who are really plugging into the Business Voices movement are really coming to see- that we have the resources that are so desperately needed and we don’t have a lot of the red tape that is currently paralyzing the needs. We have a middle school teacher that we have been talking with in Ferguson, Missouri of all places. He shared with us that when he puts in a requisition for funds to buy software for his technology classroom, it can take up to nine months for him to get approved to purchase those elements of the things he needs to teach well.

We don’t have those restrictions as a business community. We can find out about a need, we can go to our BNI chapter members, and we can say here is the item that is needed and here is who needs it. Maybe they have been invited to the chapter to talk about it. We can start filling those gaps.

We are seeing that already happening, certainly in America, where the Business Voices movement is really gaining some traction. And we have eight other countries within BNI where we are implementing our movement in their counties as well. It is really about not waiting anymore. We are tired of waiting. The waiting is not helping. We are not seeing solutions, really, coming to the floor. So we want to get involved and do things that help make systemic change.

Ivan:
The Business Voices movement is part of the BNI Foundation, but it is just an initiative of the BNI Foundation. It is open to other organizations. Really, it is about giving business a voice in what happens in communities around the world.

For BNI, much of what we have done in the past, and I think in the future, is to focus on children and education. That has been the primary focus of the BNI Foundation. That choice was made by the Board of Advisors. BNI has a board of BNI members from all around the world and they selected children and education.

So how is the BNI Foundation leveraging our positive impact of the foundation as part of the Business Voices movement? And most importantly, how can BNI members who care about their community get involved with the BNI Foundation and get involved in Business Voices?

Beth:
I love that question. There are many ways to plug in. Probably the first thing a BNI member may want to do is to find out a little bit more about the movement. We have a website, BusinessVoices.org. We also have a BNI Connect group for Business Voices. We have a very active Facebook page and on the Facebook Page of the BNI Connect group and our web page, you will also see links posted of upcoming webinars.

We are doing monthly webinars that are focusing on nations organizations. They are organizations like Boys and Girls Club, Motivating a Teen Spirit, Stand Up America. They have things probably happening in your community because they are large national movements.

Ivan:
And we are doing these worldwide, not just in North America but in other places around the world there are Business Voices programs.

Beth:
That’s right. In the US, we are doing this monthly spotlight webinar. The other countries, as soon as they have identified their spotlight focus- ours, obviously, is increasing graduation rates. We want to see the graduation rates in the United States go up by 10%.

In Japan, the focus is likely to be preventing teen suicide because the teen suicide rate is so very high. So they will have spotlight webinars focusing on organizations that are doing great work and having measurable results in those areas.

But in the US, our approach is finding these organizations that I mentioned, bringing them on to the webinar, letting them share a little bit more about the effectiveness that they are having, the results that they are seeing. And then, for the member, go find the Boys and Girls Club director in your community and then invite him or her to a BNI chapter meeting and ask that famous BNI question, “How can I help you?”

Ivan:
The BNI Foundation has done some amazing work under your stewardship. The organization have given away over $3,000,000 since its inception in 1998. But the Business Voices is more than just about money. It is also about time. Rather than- you know, not everybody has money to contribute but they do have time. Mentorship. Personal engagement and involvement.

That is what I really liked about Business Voices. We kind of have a fairly large network out there and there might be some people who would be willing to help in some way. So I urge people to go to BNIFoundation.com, I believe, right?

Beth:
.org but .com will get you there too. We did them both for that reason.

Ivan:
BNIFoundation.org and BusinessVoices.org to find out information about what your organization’s charitable arm is doing.

You know, I think business can be noble. Business can do things in society to make it a better place. And sometimes it seems so overwhelming. You may not be able to make a world of difference, but you can make a difference in the world. I think Business Voices is one of the ways that we as an organization are practicing conscious capitalism.

I want to just thank you, Beth. Any closing comment before we wrap up?

Beth:
I just really appreciate the time with you, Ivan, to be able to bring this to more members’ attention and awareness. I would love to ask an action step, if I could, of the people who listen to the podcast. At BusinessVoices.org we have a “Join Our Movement” button. If you would help us move that counter higher and higher, we would love for you to join our movement.

From time to time, we will send you updates. I don’t have an account that sends you automatic messages and emails. You will get a personal email from me with a message from me and Ivan personally. If you could help us out by joining our movement and then staying close to us, learn what we are doing, and then how you can help bring awareness more to your chapter, we would be really grateful.

Ivan:
BusinessVoices.org is an initiative of BNI. Elizabeth, thank you so much for everything that you do. You have been part of the organization for 29 years now, and you and I just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary, so it is fantastic to be a partner with you in life and in business.

Beth:
I agree with you.

Ivan:
Thanks. Back to you, Priscilla.

Priscilla:
I want to thank both of you for coming up with this great initiative which allows BNI members to interact with their communities and make positive changes. I think it’s great. I would just like to remind the listeners that this podcast has been brought to you by NetworkingNow.com, which is the leading site on the net for networking downloadables. Thank you so much for listening. This is Priscilla Rice, and we hope you will join us next week for another exciting episode of The Official BNI Podcast.

Episode 43: “The BNI Foundation: What Every Member Should Know”

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Synopsis Ivan and Beth Misner talk about the BNI-Misner Charitable Foundation. Beth has “the greatest job in the world:” awarding money to charities. She and Ivan created the foundation 9 years ago because of their belief in the importance of giving back to the community. True to the spirit of BNI, grants are given out […]

Episode 79: “BNI Foundation Monthly Heroes”

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Synopsis Dr. Misner is joined by his wife Beth to talk abut the new BNI Misner Foundation Monthly Heroes program, started in September 2008. Because of the large number of donations it makes around the world, the BNI Foundation needs to increase the donations it collects. The Monthly Heroes program recognizes those who support the […]

Episode 119: “BNI Foundation Awareness”

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Update April 28, 2017 The Ning group no longer exists. Contact the BNI Foundation for more information. Synopsis This week Dr. Misner is joined by his wife, Beth, who introduces the new BNI Foundation Fan Club. This is a Ning social network for people involved with the BNI Foundation. There’s a rotating photo album showing […]

Episode 395: Business Voices

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0
Business Voices (businessvoices.org) is an initiative of the BNI Foundation that gives businesses a voice in what happens in communities around the world.

Episode 465: Business Voices (Classic Podcast)

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0
Business Voices is an initiative of the BNI Foundation, but it's open to other organizations. It's about giving businesses a voice in what happens in communities around the world.

Episode 43: “The BNI Foundation: What Every Member Should Know”

0
0
Synopsis Ivan and Beth Misner talk about the BNI-Misner Charitable Foundation. Beth has “the greatest job in the world:” awarding money to charities. She and Ivan created the foundation 9 years ago because of their belief in the importance of giving back to the community. True to the spirit of BNI, grants are given out […]

Episode 79: “BNI Foundation Monthly Heroes”

0
0
Synopsis Dr. Misner is joined by his wife Beth to talk abut the new BNI Misner Foundation Monthly Heroes program, started in September 2008. Because of the large number of donations it makes around the world, the BNI Foundation needs to increase the donations it collects. The Monthly Heroes program recognizes those who support the […]

Episode 119: “BNI Foundation Awareness”

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0
Update April 28, 2017 The Ning group no longer exists. Contact the BNI Foundation for more information. Synopsis This week Dr. Misner is joined by his wife, Beth, who introduces the new BNI Foundation Fan Club. This is a Ning social network for people involved with the BNI Foundation. There’s a rotating photo album showing […]

Episode 395: Business Voices

0
0
Business Voices (businessvoices.org) is an initiative of the BNI Foundation that gives businesses a voice in what happens in communities around the world.

Episode 465: Business Voices (Classic Podcast)

0
0
Business Voices is an initiative of the BNI Foundation, but it's open to other organizations. It's about giving businesses a voice in what happens in communities around the world.

Episode 571: The BNI Foundation–What’s in It for Me?

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Kevin Barber joins Dr. Misner on the podcast this week to talk about why the BNI Foundation is relevant to the average BNI member. You can't have an organization with the philosophy "Givers Gain" without wanting to support social causes.

Episode 43: “The BNI Foundation: What Every Member Should Know”

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0
Synopsis Ivan and Beth Misner talk about the BNI-Misner Charitable Foundation. Beth has “the greatest job in the world:” awarding money to charities. She and Ivan created the foundation 9 years ago because of their belief in the importance of giving back to the community. True to the spirit of BNI, grants are given out […]

Episode 79: BNI Foundation Monthly Heroes

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0
Synopsis Dr. Misner is joined by his wife Beth to talk abut the new BNI Misner Foundation Monthly Heroes program, started in September 2008. Because of the large number of donations it makes around the world, the BNI Foundation needs to increase the donations it collects. The Monthly Heroes program recognizes those who support the […]

Episode 119: BNI Foundation Awareness

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0
Update April 28, 2017 The Ning group no longer exists. Contact the BNI Foundation for more information. Synopsis This week Dr. Misner is joined by his wife, Beth, who introduces the new BNI Foundation Fan Club. This is a Ning social network for people involved with the BNI Foundation. There’s a rotating photo album showing […]

Episode 395: Business Voices

0
0
Business Voices (businessvoices.org) is an initiative of the BNI Foundation that gives businesses a voice in what happens in communities around the world.
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