Don't ASK. Just Tell.
Kate Frank
Book ghostwriter - Guiding world-class industry leaders to share their story with their community and clients. Extensive experience in writing for Business, IT, and Cybersecurity
How to Help Houston Post-Harvey
Everyone is searching for an effective way to help the Greater Houston area Post-Harvey. This checklist-styled article will give you a few suggestions of things you may not have thought about. It may open your eyes to innovative methods to make a huge difference.
Friends Reaching Out to Colleagues
It all started with an email from Karen McCullough on Sunday. She sent an email out to a long list of speakers, coaches, authors and consultants. The subject line was "Houston Buds...Are You ok? checking in" Soon responses started coming in. Most of the people responding told they were okay, high and dry. Then came the response from Elizabeth Barbour early Wednesday morning.
She started her email with "I have to change my status." and went on to tell us she was under a mandatory evacuation because her neighborhood was completely under water. In the midst of her own personal tragedy, she had a question about how we, as speakers, coaches and consultants, can help raise money for the Harvey recovery. She recognized this special group has pretty large platforms. She asked if someone would step up to create a checklist to be shared, this group has the power to change the lives of many.
More than a Brief List of "Tips".
The checklist gives both local people who can help - and people from the rest of the world - concrete and powerful ways to make a difference in the lives of people in our area. I have posted the article on my website to make it easy to access and share with others.
Tell Us What You Want to Do
Ultimately, each of us has to determine how to help. The article is meant to be an idea starter. Just your participation in the conversation here on LinkedIn could impact lives.
- If you have a following on social media or an email list of people who may want to help, please share this information out into your sphere of influence.
- If you have more ideas about how the Houston area can be helped, please leave those ideas in the comments. The more people involved sharing ideas, the more impact we can make.
- If you can see ways to contribute to one of the many funds for helping, please know you are appreciated.
- If you know of someone in the Greater Houston area, let them know you are thinking about them. Even if you know they did not have to evacuate. Even though they may be high and dry. Everyone in the Houston area is impacted in some way. Those who have been spared from the water are suffering from "dry guilt" and are having trouble getting their life back to normal.
- If you live in the Greater Houston area, look at the suggestions in this article for helping your neighbors. It can be as simple as taking someone a meal you prepared - or - as intense as putting on your gloves and face mask to get your hands dirty removing flooded furniture or sheet rock. There is something on this list you could do for others and becoming involved will be good for your heart-broken soul.
Thanks for your generous involvement. Please stop what you are doing right now. Say a little prayer for our area. Take a look at the checklist article and determine how you can help. Do it now, before your busy day sweeps your awareness into other things. The people in the Houston, Texas region appreciate all the thoughts, prayers, gifts and time spent helping us recover. Thanks again.
This article is contributed by professional business book ghostwriter, Kate Frank: www.AuthorLegacyResource.com/. Kate was inspired to share this information by evacuee, speaker and coach Elizabeth Barbour: www.ElizabethBarbour.com/.