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Disrupt corporate philanthropy with us! If you're looking for better ways to serve your community and grow your business, we're sharing every strategy that's helped us get more sales, have happier employees, and impact lives beyond a vague corporate donation.

Abby Haralson
Abby Haralson |

Build Then Bless: “Is This Benefit Real Life?”

“I feel like it’s opened my eyes to look for opportunities where I could help. My heart is always open to anyone that needs help.” It isn’t a nonprofit program or a volunteer initiative that’s made Katie Faltermeier feel that way. It’s a work “benefit,” if you want to call it that, or something Lemonade…

Hailey Webster
Hailey Webster |

Contagious—In a Good Way

Build Then Bless is the good flu—its influence is contagious. When we share it, we get to build one another in the process. Have you ever let someone in on a secret? There’s a special light that immediately sparks in their eyes. It’s as though you invited that person to become your friend through your…

Hailey Webster
Hailey Webster |

Build Then Bless From a Beachy Oasis

To me, Build Then Bless is so much more than giving monetarily (although that can help!) It’s an attitude of inclusion. It’s a way of living. I recently went on vacation with my husband to the Dominican Republic. While there, we decided we wanted to have a city tour from a local. After some research,…

Abby Haralson
Abby Haralson |

How To Measure Company Culture

How do you measure something as intangible and complex as culture? Since “culture is how employees’ hearts and stomachs feel about Monday morning on Sunday night,” (thank you Bill Marklein, founder of Culture Crossing), it’s hard to capture data on those feelings. But doing so is vital to understanding the health and success of your…

Abby Haralson
Abby Haralson |

Camila’s Experience as a 100% Build Then Blesser

A 100% Build Then Bless participant? We had to get the inside scoop into how Camila Roldan, one of our account managers, has consistently used all of her Build Then Bless (BTB) funds every month for over a year. That’s more than $600 put back into Camila’s community of neighbors and strangers she’s had the…

Abby Haralson
Abby Haralson |

How to Improve Company Culture in 984 Words

I’m not a big business and leadership book person but my husband is. We have a full floor-to-ceiling bookcase of strategies from Wiseman, Covey, Brown, Sinek—if they’ve talked business, it’s there. And I love hearing about the things my husband learns from them. Dale Carnegie—if you’re reading this from the afterlife, Brad Haralson is your…

Alohilani Jacob
Alohilani Jacob |

How a Build Then Bless Kindness Strengthened Our Friendships

Some acts of kindness have an immediate, obvious effect. Others create long-lasting bonds that bless an entire community. Both are equally important to create.  My husband’s childhood friend recently started a family by welcoming their first baby into their home. Right after his wife gave birth, he called my husband to tell him the good…

Hailey Webster
Hailey Webster |

How To Avoid the Sunday Scaries

Anticipatory stress plagues many of us. We worry about the next bill cycle; we worry about the kids we don’t yet have; and we even worry about our worries. At times, before the week has even ended, we may get worried about the week ahead. This specific kind of anticipatory stress is called, “the Sunday…

Isabelle Franco
Isabelle Franco |

A Shifting Mindset With a Couple of Dollars

When you know better, you do better. And participating in BTB helped me know better.  I’m Isabelle, Content Strategist and fellow Build then Bless-er. The notion of giving without it actually having to cost you anything is the very thing that drew me to Lemonade Stand. When this is a company’s priority, you notice what…

Derrek Corry
Derrek Corry |

Wait On It

It’s a reminder that, in our busy lives, we should strive to look beyond our own needs and recognize the hard work and challenges of those serving us. They deserve our respect, empathy, and generosity—now more than ever. Being married to a waitress has made me look at the service industry in a completely different…