Are nonprofits missing out on what the gift can teach them?

In the third chapter of Lewis Hyde’s The Gift, readers are given an opportunity to contemplate what it means to be grateful, to ponder what we mean when we talk about a transformational gift, and to grasp the fact that not all gifts come with the ease of being “once and done.” Hyde describes the “labor of gratitude” as a spiritual journey of sorts that accompanies what he refers to as “gifts of passage.” Hyde explains that these gifts afford a learning experience that can’t be taught in the classroom and an obligation that, if overlooked or ignored, can change the meaning of what was given.