Team Up With Our Better Angels

Support your favorite Good Causes. Discover the creative potential of the human spirit. Build your own personal Angel Community. Help us help you help others.

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The Better Angels of Our Nature

In a monumental study, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, psychologist Steven Pinker marshals an enormous array of historical evidence…

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The Better Angels Invitation

Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? Now the Better Angels Invitation allows you to support your very own Good Cause for the cost of a large pizza once a year. And you don’t have to dump anything on your head.

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How Do You Feel About People?

Over the long haul, truly effective leadership always starts and ends with a feeling for and about the people involved.

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Bonding and Bridging

Good Causes — schools, libraries, faith communities, service organizations — tend to attract members who form strong bonds with the organization and with fellow members. But they also tend to form bridges with other Good Causes. Our Better Angels strives to promote both bonding behavior and bridging behavior to help others help others help others.

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Entertaining Angels

St. Paul’s letter to the Hebrews encourages us to treat strangers with kindness, since they might well be angels in disguise.

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Sponsored by the Wisconsin Leadership Institute

WLI

Our Better Angels is a not-for-profit qualified subsidiary of the Wisconsin Leadership Institute (WLI). The WLI was incorporated as a Wisconsin non-stock non-profit organization in 1995 and received certification from the Internal Revenue Service as a 501c3 organization in 2000.

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Service: The Heart of Leadership

In our educational video program, Service: The Heart of Leadership, we showcase several organizations that stress service to others as the heart of their mission. Here's a sample clip about the Blue Mountain Project in Hagley Gap, Jamaica.

Remembering Bill Schang

Bill Schang was a pillar of the Ripon College community for more than 40 years.

This is Bill's Angel Story