As a part of an organisation you could:

1. Support a local family or child oriented non-profit organization with a donation of a percentage of your sales for the day.
2. Adopt a family and purchase uniforms/school supplies to assist with school preparation
3. Sponsor parenting education classes
4. Participate in community projects such as Habitat for Humanity. Encourage your employees to participate by offering added perks such as a percentage of a day's wage or free lunch.

With your objectives in mind, determine how much risk you're prepared to take. Do you want to adopt a conservative, moderate or aggressive investment strategy? Ask yourself the following questions before you make your decision:

• Are you prepared to make long-term investments, which will allow you to take greater risks for higher returns ?
• If you're going for short-term, high-risk investments, can you afford to lose some of the money you invest ?
• If you're married with children, what level of risk can you take and still be certain of their future ?
• You're going to diversify by spreading your investments over a range of low- to high-risk products. But will you weigh them towards high- or low-risk investments ?
• If you want your money to be safe, will you be content with a moderate rate of return ?
• If you opt for safe investments, will the returns be enough to cover inflation ?

If an interviewer has read your resume carefully, he may try to zero in on a "fatal flaw" of your candidacy, perhaps that you don't have a college degree.you've been out of the job market for some time.you never earned your CPA, etc.

A fatal flaw question can be deadly, but usually only if you respond by being overly defensive.

BEST ANSWERS:  As every master salesperson knows, you will encounter objections (whether stated or merely thought) in every sale.  They're part and parcel of the buyer's anxiety.  The key is not to exacerbate the buyer's anxiety but diminish it.  Here's how.

Whenever you come up against a fatal flaw question:

1.                  Be completely honest, open and straightforward about admitting the shortcoming.  (Showing you have nothing to hide diminishes the buyer's anxiety.)

2.                  Do not apologize or try to explain it away.  You know that this supposed flaw is nothing to be concerned about, and this is the attitude you want your interviewer to adopt as well.

3.                  Add that as desirable as such a qualification might be, its lack has made you work all the harder throughout your career and has not prevented you from compiling an outstanding tack record of achievements.  You might even give examples of how, through a relentless commitment to excellence, you have consistently outperformed those who do have this qualification.

Of course, the ultimate way to handle "fatal flaw" questions is to prevent them from arising in the first place.  You will do that by following the master strategy described in Question 1, i.e., uncovering the employers needs and them matching your qualifications to those needs.

Once you've gotten the employer to start talking about his most urgently-felt wants and goals for the position, and then help him see in step-by-step fashion how perfectly your background and achievements match up with those needs, you're going to have one very enthusiastic interviewer on your hands, one who is no longer looking for "fatal flaws".