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The Pollination Project: Gifting A $1000 A Day<\/strong>
\nA 13-year-old collects items for animal shelters. An 88-year-old offers up land to community agriculture. A young man trains prisoners in nonviolence. For Ari Nessel, each story is just another day along his journey in giving. After making a fortune in Dallas real estate, Ari wanted to give back. Yet he noticed that modern-day philanthropy tends to hold a disconnect between the funders and those who are doing the work. So he decided to seed projects rather than fund them, and has embarked on an experiment to give away $1,000 a day, every day, for the rest of his life. “My experience is that transformation happens on the fringes and in the micro areas and the individuals,” he explains. “It doesn’t happen on a large scale, it happens through all these people coming together in communities.” Learn how the seeds of The Pollination Project continue to blossom. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pollination Project: Gifting A $1000 A Day A 13-year-old collects items for animal shelters. An 88-year-old offers up land to community agriculture. A young man trains prisoners in nonviolence. For Ari Nessel, each story is just another day along his journey in giving. After making a fortune in Dallas real estate, Ari wanted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Pollination Project in the Daily Good - The Pollination Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A 13-year-old collects items for animal shelters. An 88-year-old offers up land to community agriculture. A young man trains prisoners in nonviolence. 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