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Americans are generous with their pocketbooks, but trying to make a difference and actually making a difference are two different things. Where Am I Giving? by New York Times best-selling author Kelsey Timmerman takes you on a journey to meet people who will inspire you to live a purpose-filled, generous life and make the greatest impact you can through your career, time, consumer dollars, and donations. 

When you follow your passions to discover your purpose, you can change the world. Entrepreneur and co-founder of the charity Village Impact, Amy McLaren, is going to show you how she combined her passion for education and travel to do just that-and changed her life in the process.Through the ups...

Learn the innovative strategies Microsoft pioneered that created a virtuous cycle of giving and volunteerism that has benefited the company and fulfilled its employees while making the world a better place. Early on in the Microsoft story, Bill Gates and other key executives met to decide how...

Jonathan Reckford, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity, has seen time and again the powerful benefits that arise when people from all walks of life work together to help one another. In this uplifting audiobook, he shares true stories of people involved with Habitat as volunteers and future homeowners who embody seven timeless virtues - kindness, community, empowerment, joy, respect, generosity, and service - and shows how we can all practice these to improve the quality of our own lives as well as those around us.

On a cold March day in 1893, 26-year-old nurse Lillian Wald rushed through the poverty-stricken streets of New York’s Lower East Side to a squalid bedroom where a young mother lay dying -abandoned by her doctor because she could not pay his fee. The misery in the room and the walk to reach it inspired Wald to establish Henry Street Settlement, which would become one of the most influential social welfare organizations in American history.

In the spirit of Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, and joining the ranks of works by Bryan Stevenson, Matthew Desmond, Abraham Verghese and Oliver Sachs, the inspiring story of a young American neurologist’s struggle to make a difference in Haiti by treating one patient—a story of...

The candid tale of one of Britain’s most outstanding contemporary philanthropists. These pages wryly track Peter’s varied career moves, from flogging tickets for one of The Beatles first major concerts, to getting inadvertently caught up in a New York family turf war while trying to buy a...

From the founder of Mary’s Meals and the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Shed That Fed a Million Children, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow travels the world encountering startling acts of charity and the power of generosity. Few people in the world are better placed to understand the role of...

Brought to you by Penguin. Every two minutes someone is reported missing in the UK. Most return, but some do not. The police are unable to investigate every case fully, and so too often these people disappear from memory. But the missing always leave behind traces – clues to who they might...

A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually...

Part memoir and part manifesto, Tell Me My Story is one leader's message of hope and offers a map to healing for those doing humanitarian work. It's also a reminder: This service and the people who do it are crucial to our world, and we must equip, empower, and encourage them to work as the best version of themselves—for themselves, for their loved ones, and for the people they serve.

Are you passionate about making a difference, but struggle to measure the impact of your work? Do you wrestle with demonstrating to others the outcomes of your organization’s efforts? In Data for Good, Patricia Steele proposes a method to harness the power of data to reshape your nonprofit, educational institution, or social impact business into a dynamic force for positive change.

Brought to you by Penguin. What's the point of a business without a purpose? James Reed, Chairman and CEO of Reed and author of Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again, is on a mission to reform capitalism. Corporations, he argues, are largely ignoring their employees, customers...

You can make a difference on a daily basis, and it's not as difficult as you might think. Simple Giving includes more than 40 ideas to make the world a better place. Most people think they have to donate a lot of time and money in order to make a difference. But there are simple ways to integrate giving into our personal and professional lives that don't involve either.

Drawing from the experiences of real-life giving circles, philanthropy leader Hali Lee challenges our traditional understanding of giving, showing how everyday people can take back philanthropy from the billionaires and make the world a better place. When you think of philanthropy, what do you...

We live in a subscription economy, yet many nonprofits are just beginning to unlock the transformative power of recurring donations. Monthly gifts enable micro-philanthropists to emerge, creating a movement of charitable living and impact-together. With a dynamic five-step monthly giving framework to follow, plus insights and interviews from leading nonprofits like charity: water, Daily Giving, IJM UK, and The Tim Tebow Foundation, Dana Snyder invites you into the mastermind-a vibrant community where nonprofit peers share their knowledge, experiences, and resources for the collective good.

Bring Rain: Helping Humanity in Crisis is an inspiring collection of real-world lessons from over two decades on the front lines of global crisis response. Blending memoir, guide, and moral call to action, author and narrator Sarah Petrin invites listeners to rediscover what it means to be human in a time of global uncertainty. From refugee camps in Africa to disaster zones in the U.S., Petrin has spent her life responding to humanity’s greatest needs. In Bring Rain, she weaves together stories of survival and solidarity with reflections on faith, leadership, and resilience.

What if the secret to greater success, influence, and fulfillment isn't about taking more—but giving more? When Ben Genet shifted from a scarcity mindset to one of abundance through community involvement and charitable giving, his entire life transformed. His business multiplied, relationships deepened, and his lifelong battle with insecurity began to fade.

This book highlights the historic inflection point we are in, both in terms of philanthropy in general and specifically in financing solutions to our most urgent social and environmental problems. It covers two movements that have recently influenced capitalism. First, wealthy millennials have pressured their bankers to invest family portfolios in companies with high social and environmental impact (ESG ratings), triggering a wave where the wealth management industry and now all public companies are adapting to the demand for good.

2024-й – год тридцатилетия паллиативной помощи в Москве. Хосписы в России – государственные бесплатные медицинские учреждения. Для того, чтобы каждый хоспис не только в Москве, но и по всей стране стал настоящим домом, сохраняющим тепло человеческой жизни, сколько бы ее ни оставалось, – в хосписах работают сотрудники и волонтеры Благотворительного фонда «Вера».