Where Am I Giving?: A Global Adventure Exploring How to Use Your Gifts and Talents to Make a Difference - Couverture rigide

Timmerman, Kelsey

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1119448123 ISBN 13 : 9781119448129

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2018

Synopsis

Your gifts connect you to a world of giving

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 bestselling 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.

Starting in his hometown of Muncie, Indiana, and then traveling all over the world (Myanmar, Kenya, India, Nepal, and more), Kelsey explores not only different ways of giving--as a worker, consumer, volunteer, giver, local and global citizen--but also the benefits and effectiveness of these methods. He spends time with monks, students, a refugee, a Marine, a former Hollywood executive, Peace Corps Volunteers, and seasoned aid workers to explore how they give, as well as with the people on the receiving end of their giving. Along the way he struggles to be a more informed giver as he becomes a "voluntourist," starts his own local non-profit, and searches for a balance between rationality and passion in how he gives.

This book will help you:

• Reveal the amazing opportunities you have to make an impact using your own gifts--and it doesn't have to be money
• Understand the sociology, philosophy, anthropology, and neuroscience of giving
• See how giving can make you more connected and happier
• Examine types of giving, including microlending, volunteering, donating, ethical consumption, mission trips, voluntourism, child sponsorship, etc.
• Dive into a nuanced view of effectiveness of international aid and its intersection with development, politics, and culture

Where Am I Giving? is a fast-paced narrative combining compelling stories collected over 15 years of travel to 90+ countries, mixed with practical advice on how to make giving a part of our everyday lives.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

KELSEY TIMMERMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of Where Am I Wearing? and Where Am I Eating?. A champion of global thinking and local action, he regularly speaks at universities, colleges, and high schools all over the U.S. He is also the co-founder of The Facing Project, a non-profit community storytelling initiative in nearly 100 communities across the country.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1119448123
• ISBN 13: 9781119448129
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible