Several key principles shape how we work with our clients. When you work with DBD Group, you'll recognize these principles in action as we guide your organization forward.
    1. Leadership is everything.
    2. You’re only as strong as the team around you.
    3. Equip, inspire and empower others.
    4. Everyone means everyone.
    5. Speak the kind truth.
    6. Challenge the status quo.
    7. A great plan is only step one.
    8. Why informs what.
    9. Vision fades. Recast, remind, repeat.
    10. Keep learning, stewarding, and sharing.
    11. Don’t settle.

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    • "Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but the seed you plant."

      Robert Louis Stevenson

    • "Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have."

      Margaret Mead

    • "You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

      John Bunyan

    • "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

      John Quincy Adams

    • "No one has ever become poor by giving."

      Anne Frank

    • "It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping themselves."

      Charles Dudley Warner

    • "It's every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."

      Robert F. Kennedy

    • "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

      Frederick Douglass

    • "Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle."

      Ken Hakuta

    • "Philanthropy is the mystical mingling of a joyous giver, an artful asker, and a grateful recipient."

      Douglas M. Lawson

    • "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

      Jim Rohn

    • "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

      Winston Churchill

    • "Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

      Henry David Thoreau

    • "The greatest problem with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death. Causes don't need workers as much as they need informed, dedicated and passionate advocates."

      Harold J. Seymour

    • "A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit."

      Greek Proverb

    • "Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."

      Gladyn Browyn Stern

    • "What a world this would be if we just built bridges instead of walls."

      Carlos Ramirez

    • "I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

      Maya Angelou

    • "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

      Mother Teresa

    • "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who sought and found out how to serve."

      Albert Schweitzer