Author Biographies :: April Doner

April Doner

April Doner is a native of Florida and serves on the Stewardship Team of ABCD in Action. “I believe in community and want to spend my life nurturing communities to realize their full potential,” she says of the influence John McKnight and others in the gift-minded world have had on her life and work. She says: “At work, I learn peoples' gifts, find ways to celebrate them, and work to make connections between people to form relationships through which their gifts can be given and the community can change. In my personal life, I've begun using ABCD to look at people differently (the full half) and so enjoy life and other people much more. I've gotten comfortable acting upon an understanding that relationships have a value in themselves and gained even greater satisfaction (and affirmation) through playing the role of 'connector' between people in all spheres of my life.”