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Please select a question below to learn more about the Spirit of Giving.
Q: What is the Spirit of Giving?
Q: Who is behind the Spirit of Giving, and why?
Q: What is 100,000 Acts of Giving?
Q: How does the 100,000 Acts of Giving program work?
Q: How are the 100,000 acts counted or quantified?
Q: What constitutes an “act”? How do people demonstrate their Spirit of Giving?
Q: Who is funding this effort, and how much is the campaign?
Q: How can a not-for-profit organization support/fund an effort of this magnitude?
Q: Are the street team members volunteers or are they being paid?
Q: Are celebrities volunteering their time? Do they believe in the Spirit of Giving or are they simply being paid to participate?
Q: Can community members participate or volunteer with street teams?
Q: Isn’t the Spirit of Giving a fundraising effort to support the hospital?
Q: Isn’t the Spirit of Giving a marketing push to support the Mission brand?
Q: What’s in all of this for Mission Hospital?
Q: What is the Spirit of Giving?
A: The Spirit of Giving is an idea from Mission Hospital about serving each other in meaningful ways as part of our daily lives. Some people demonstrate this through thoughtful acts. Some do so through volunteering their time and talent. Still others do it through philanthropy. The ways to show your Spirit of Giving are endless.
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Q: Who is behind the Spirit of Giving, and why?
A: Mission Hospital. The Spirit of Giving is an integral part of our hospital’s culture and reflects the values that guide our daily activities. We believe that sharing and promoting this culture on a countywide basis will help create a closer sense of community and enable individuals to live happier, healthier lives.
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Q: What is 100,000 Acts of Giving?
A: The program is Mission Hospital’s call to all Orange County residents to demonstrate their Spirit of Giving in their own unique way through a simple act of kindness or good deed. During the coming year and a half, we are seeking to accomplish a total of more than 100,000 combined acts of giving between the hospital and the community.
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Q: How does the 100,000 Acts of Giving program work?
A: To help kick-start and capture the Spirit of Giving, Mission Hospital is presenting a series of acts – such as giving a flower to a stranger – as examples of the powerful and uplifting impact that good deeds, no matter how simple or complex, can have on individuals and our community. Community members in turn can log on to spiritofgiving.org and share their own experiences with acts given or received. Through spiritofgiving.org, the community can also check out other personal stories, vote on future acts of giving, and learn about the Spirit of Giving street teams and where they will be next. They can also see which Orange County communities are the most giving and participate in a variety of online community chats, message boards and more.
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Q: How are the 100,000 acts counted or quantified?
A: Acts are counted towards the 100,000 total in two ways. One is through actual deeds completed by Mission Hospital’s Spirit of Giving street teams. These are quantified by the number of people receiving an “act”. The other is through the community. Individuals can go online to spiritofgiving.org and post their own act of giving.
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Q: What constitutes an “act”? How do people demonstrate their Spirit of Giving?
A: An act can be as simple as a friendly “Hello” to a stranger or as elaborate as volunteering time or giving money to a cause or organization. Most importantly, we distinguish acts as being about good deeds as opposed to giveaways.
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Q: Who is funding this effort, and how much is the campaign?
A: The Spirit of Giving is being presented and supported by Mission Hospital in concert with individuals and organizations from the community. Mission is making a modest investment to launch and support initial awareness for this effort through street teams, the spiritofgiving.org web site, advertising and other vehicles.
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Q: How can a not-for-profit organization support/fund an effort of this magnitude?
A: Mission Hospital sees the Spirit of Giving as an extension of our healthcare ministry and the values of our sponsor, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. We have always been deeply committed – both financially and operationally – to supporting the well-being of our community. in ways that go beyond traditional hospital services. In fiscal year 2004 alone, Mission Hospital invested more than $33 million toward community benefit activities for a variety of programs ranging from asthma and diabetes education to healthcare services for the medically underserved.
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Q: Are the street team members volunteers or are they being paid?
A: The core street team members – those sporting the official Spirit of Giving uniforms – are official representatives engaged by Mission Hospital.
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Q: Are celebrities volunteering their time? Do they believe in the Spirit of Giving or are they simply being paid to participate?
A: Celebrities who participate support the notion of Spirit of Giving and the idea behind the 100,000 Acts of Giving effort. Some will receive a modest stipend to cover costs for their travel, time and other expenses.
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Q: Can community members participate or volunteer with street teams
A: Absolutely. We encourage people to join in. Interested individuals can go online to spiritofgiving.org to see where the Spirit of Giving team will be next and how they can participate.
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Q: Isn’t the Spirit of Giving a fundraising effort to support the hospital
A: Actually, the Spirit of Giving is about serving others in meaningful ways every day. For Mission Hospital, philanthropy is but one element of this Spirit of Giving. It is an integral part of our hospital’s culture. We believe that sharing and promoting this culture on a countywide basis will help create a closer sense of community and enable individuals to live happier, healthier lives.
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Q: Isn’t the Spirit of Giving a marketing push to support the Mission brand
A: It is much more than that. Mission Hospital is dedicated to helping enhance the quality of life in our community, and we believe that reflects well on our brand and who we are as an organization. That said, we view true success as seeing the Spirit of Giving embraced by community members in their daily interactions.
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Q: What’s in all of this for Mission Hospital?
A: It’s an opportunity to share what we believe is a wonderful approach to living daily. And it advances our hospital’s mission of supporting the health and quality of life of people in the communities we serve.
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