Peer Power Blog

By Zack Schuler President/CEO Cal Net Technology Group I am of the opinion that no matter what faith you hold, your faith will teach you that taking care of the less fortunate is an essential element of obedience.  Even if you have no faith, in your heart you likely realize that taking care of the less fortunate is “a good thing.”  That said, there are many different ways and forms of taking care of the less fortunate.  There are ways that foster sustainability such as working with a fatherless child, and teaching him something that he will use for the rest of his life.  Helping others to help themselves, has both been an American tradition (at least until recently), and has been taught b... Continue reading

The Journey We needed to grow in our membership so we had a significant mass that could come together to help one another.  That meant having a target – and for us it has been a steady march to 250 members – which we finally achieved in Q1 2011.  It has been front and center of our 1-4-250-10K-1M march and we have succeeded in reaching that third plateau.  We needed our groups to have time to build trust and deep relationships.  The ability to serve and to ask for help is completely based on relationships built over time in small peer groups.  We have created those small camps of like-minded partners who come together each quarter to share business and life. We needed to create a national... Continue reading

The Dream A few years ago I had a dream that we could build a culture that would become focused on giving rather than taking – on helping rather than receiving – on making a difference rather than collecting stuff for self.  God gave me a vision for what is now called Hands That Give.  The idea of a community coming together behind a cause – funded by giving rather than dues or billing – where members would give from their success to help others who were in need.  That seed was planted in my mind very early in the HTG story.  The Challenge When God gave me the vision – there were a number of problems.  Quite honestly, there was no way that dream could possibly succeed.  As I looked at thi... Continue reading