The “Love Test”

We had our quaterly Eva Foundation Board meeting on Monday. We talk business, programs, fundraising, all the usual things non-profit Boards talk about. Then we got into a discussion about our vision; with the change in our situation over the past year and a half, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about this topic. We got to revisit our core principle. An important test for us in making decisions is how Eva’s love is reflected in the decision. We think about both how she would feel about something, but also about whether the activity reflects her love (We sometimes need kleenex at the Board meetings!). The idea behind the community engagement program reflects one of Eva’s values; even though so young, she really brought people together and worked to keep them that way. She loved the idea of her friends getting together without her–especially if they were from different parts of her life! Its true that we have to think about business stuff, but she was full of love; and so we get to use the “love test.”