About the Author: Emily Hohler

  • The Power of Half: how Hannah Salwen and her family gave half their home away

    When 14-year-old Hannah Salwen asked her parents to sell their $2 million house and donate half the proceeds to charity, rather than laugh her suggestion off they took it seriously.

    By Published On: July 25, 2012

    'As we were talking, I could hear what it sounded like through Hannah’s ears and it sounded lame,’ Kevin says. 'The truth was we weren’t giving generously. With the resources we had, we could have been doing much, much more.’