I raised my daughter to value making a difference over making money. Now I question that lesson.

The author (right) and her daughter both founded nonprofits.

Courtesy of Miriam Bonilla.

My daughter and I both run nonprofits: mine rescues dogs; hers supports women's education.

We are both passionate about our philanthropic work, but it comes at a price.

I sometimes wonder if I should have encouraged her to choose a paycheck over passion and purpose.

Two years ago, my daughter, Jordan, was in the outskirts of Marrakech in Morocco with a group of 15 Amazigh girls from the High Atlas Mountains .

Displaced after a recent earthquake, they were in a temporary dorm, just a small house, but it was all they had available to them.

My daughter was leading a yoga teacher training program through her nonprofit — one that she built herself from the ground up when she was 26.

"How hot is it?" I ask while sitting at my desk in Los Angeles, frantically putting together a fundraising plea for the charity I founded for a matted poodle mix with a broken leg.

He was hit by a car, and one of our rescue volunteers just saved him and rushed him to our vets.

"44 Celsius, Mom, and no fans.

Cell phone cutting out," she shares.

I quickly Google the Fahrenheit conversion and learn that it's about 111 degrees.

"Oh no!" I gasp.