I was invited to a business networking breakfast yesterday as a prospective member and introduced myself and our nonprofit as a fine agency with 10,000 new clients every year, all of whom have absolutely no benefit to anyone in this room except me.

Serving the underserved, the forgotten, and those on the margin’s edge is not a pretty cause but the results can be a thing of beauty.

Experiencing people, seniors, and entire families once homeless on the streets lifted out of the rolls of poverty, into good housing and good jobs, and into a renewed hope for a thriving future is an incentive to show up every day rarely found in for profit work.