Eight Paths to Second Half Significance 

NOT AT ALL

INVOLVED 

SOMEWHAT

INVOLVED 

HIGHLY

INVOLVED 

Volunteer 

You donate substantial time and energy to a cause you deem significant. 

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Donor  

You contribute financial resources to a cause you deem significant. 

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Business as Ministry 

You use your business enterprise to accomplish kingdom work even as it pursues its core business.  (You may also designate profits toward one of the other alternatives.) 

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Board Member 

You provide leadership and expertise to a nonprofit organization that has a mission you deem significant. 

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Partner 

You team up with someone involved full-time in a cause you deem significant, acting as a “silent partner” to resource that individual in whatever ways are needed to accomplish meaningful results. 

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Parallel Career 

You take on executive responsibility for a cause you

deem significant, even as you continue to carry out

your vocational commitments. 

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Organizational Leaders 

You make a fundamental career change by becoming

the executive of an established organization that has a mission you deem significant. 

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Social Entrepreneur 

You use your entrepreneurial expertise and experience to start and build a nonprofit initiative designed to meet a societal need in an innovative way. 

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