Giving. How Each of Us Can Change the World Rough Cut
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Advanced Lessons in Being Charitable - As a retired president of the United States, you can take it easy and enjoy life while drawing big paychecks for speaking . . . or you can start a new career contributing in new ways as Jimmy Carter did. Fortunately, Bill Clinton has aimed his high-powered intellect and passion for the underprivileged towards volunteering and best practice ways of helping those who need it most.I am very engaged in volunteer activities to develop better ways to help the underprivileged. That work makes it hard for me to keep track of what others are doing. I found that Giving gave me several interesting new ideas for ways I can volunteer and share financial resources.I also intend to recommend this book to my students who are working on poverty and disease problems in underdeveloped countries. Some of the ideas presented here would be helpful to them as well, such as providing opportunities for those in advanced countries to loan small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in underdeveloped countries.The chapters are organized around these concepts:1. Individuals are doing more than ever to help others.2. You can give money.3. You can give your time.4. You can donate items that are needed elsewhere.5. You can help transfer skills so that others can help themselves.6. You can help bring peace where there has been none.7. You can provide gifts that have continuing benefits.8. You can create ideal methods that others can use to help many more.9. You can develop and share good ideas.10. You can assemble economic scale to reduce the cost of helping in either for profit or nonprofit environments.11. How you can determine how much and what to give.I also enjoyed reading about an update on Bill Clinton s charitable activities around the world.I thought of this book as being a lot like a catalog for giving. Many of the sections may not appeal to you. That s all right. You can gain from this book by just reading about what does interest you.I especially the resource section which gives you a way to check out the giving ideas you like in more detail.I can see this book as a turn-off for some. Let me describe why:1. There s a lot in here about what billionaires and hedge fund managers do. Their examples aren t relevant for most people.2. The style is pretty dry. You won t feel so much passion as having received a data dump in several sections.3. If you don t have a lot of time, you ll be unsure how the time demands of many of the more interesting choices . . . so you ll find the book inadequate to pick a single area with little effort now.4. There s a lot of international focus in the book. If your heart draws you closer to home, you may find the book to be a bit thin for your interests.If you already like to give and want to give more and in better ways, I don t know of a better book for you to start with.May God bless you as you give.
Advanced Lessons in Being Charitable - As a retired president of the United States, you can take it easy and enjoy life while drawing big paychecks for speaking . . . or you can start a new career contributing in new ways as Jimmy Carter did. Fortunately, Bill Clinton has aimed his high-powered intellect and passion for the underprivileged towards volunteering and best practice ways of helping those who need it most.I am very engaged in volunteer activities to develop better ways to help the underprivileged. That work makes it hard for me to keep track of what others are doing. I found that Giving gave me several interesting new ideas for ways I can volunteer and share financial resources.I also intend to recommend this book to my students who are working on poverty and disease problems in underdeveloped countries. Some of the ideas presented here would be helpful to them as well, such as providing opportunities for those in advanced countries to loan small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in underdeveloped countries.The chapters are organized around these concepts:1. Individuals are doing more than ever to help others.2. You can give money.3. You can give your time.4. You can donate items that are needed elsewhere.5. You can help transfer skills so that others can help themselves.6. You can help bring peace where there has been none.7. You can provide gifts that have continuing benefits.8. You can create ideal methods that others can use to help many more.9. You can develop and share good ideas.10. You can assemble economic scale to reduce the cost of helping in either for profit or nonprofit environments.11. How you can determine how much and what to give.I also enjoyed reading about an update on Bill Clinton s charitable activities around the world.I thought of this book as being a lot like a catalog for giving. Many of the sections may not appeal to you. That s all right. You can gain from this book by just reading about what does interest you.I especially the resource section which gives you a way to check out the giving ideas you like in more detail.I can see this book as a turn-off for some. Let me describe why:1. There s a lot in here about what billionaires and hedge fund managers do. Their examples aren t relevant for most people.2. The style is pretty dry. You won t feel so much passion as having received a data dump in several sections.3. If you don t have a lot of time, you ll be unsure how the time demands of many of the more interesting choices . . . so you ll find the book inadequate to pick a single area with little effort now.4. There s a lot of international focus in the book. If your heart draws you closer to home, you may find the book to be a bit thin for your interests.If you already like to give and want to give more and in better ways, I don t know of a better book for you to start with.May God bless you as you give.