Charity and Philanthropy For Dummies
Höfundar: Muth, Karl T., Lindenmayer, Michael T. S., Kluge, John
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The easy way to make a difference Despite tough economic times, rates of donations are on the rise. If you want to make a difference but don't know where to start, you need Charity & Philanthropy For Dummies. This is your one-stop, no-nonsense guide to charitable activities. Inside you'll find lots of strategies for philanthropic work such as volunteering your time, raising funds, donating your own cash or expertise, impact investing, and social entrepreneurship.
You'll also find lots of case studies from charities big and small to show you what works and what doesn't. Help with selecting where to donate or invest Ideas for how you can make a difference without having pots of money Advice on socially responsible and impact investing Techniques for reaching out to others to help your cause - from a local to a global level You don't need deep pockets to make a difference—you need Charity & Philanthropy For Dummies.
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- Höfundar: Muth, Karl T., Lindenmayer, Michael T. S., Kluge, John
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 09-01-2014
- Blaðsíður: 408
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781119943945
- Print ISBN: 9781119941873
- ISBN 10: 1119943949
Efnisyfirlit
- Foreword
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part I: Getting Started with Charity & Philanthropy
- Chapter 1: Introducing Philanthropy: Your Passport to Helping Others
- Getting into the Spirit of Giving and Philanthropy
- Identifying Ways to Give
- Giving remotely or in person
- Acting spontaneously or in a co-ordinated fashion
- Addressing immediate needs or solving long-term problems
- Finding Causes and Organisations to Support
- Focusing on favourite causes
- Choosing an organisation
- Staying Engaged and Committed
- Following-up and following-through
- Sharing your hope, commitment, and energy with others
- Staying positive
- Improving the World Today, Tomorrow, and into the Future
- Making the world a better place today
- Being a champion for the next generation
- Chapter 1: Introducing Philanthropy: Your Passport to Helping Others
- Chapter 2: Working out Why and How You Want To Give
- Understanding Your Philanthropic Motivation
- Giving as a personal mission
- Building a career: The professional path
- Making giving a way of life
- Determining the Extent of Your Philanthropy
- Defining the scale of your giving
- Knowing what you have to offer
- Getting through Giving: What You Receive in Return
- Benefitting emotionally
- Considering the financial benefits
- Recognising the social and personal benefits
- Managing Your Expectations
- Keeping expectations in check during the exploration phase
- Understanding what you want during the commitment phase
- Managing expectations as things change
- Bringing Families Together
- Sharing with your immediate family
- Bringing your extended family on board
- Reaching out to friends and associates
- Understanding Your Philanthropic Motivation
- Giving Your Time
- Brother, can you spare some time? Deciding how much you can give
- Maxing out your minutes
- Becoming a weekend and weeknight warrior
- Giving big time: Radical sabbaticals
- Making Best Use of Your Talents
- Taking inventory of your skills
- Explaining your abilities
- Finding the right fit for your talents
- Dealing in Transactions
- Accepting that what goes in must come out
- Empowering through transactions
- Examining cause-related transactions
- Handing over Your Treasure
- Choosing between donations and investments
- Determining how much you can give
- Making Choices and Setting Limits: Understanding that Both Are Beneficial
- Searching for a Cause That Sparks Your Passion
- Going with what you know: Charity begins at home
- Gathering info about charities beyond your local area
- Thinking about what inspires you in other areas of your life
- When helping one charity isn't enough: Prioritising your efforts
- Deciding Where to Focus Your Philanthropy
- Addressing the cause
- Helping to tackle the symptoms
- Checking Out Your Chosen Charities: Due Diligence
- Getting the basics on charitable organisations
- Asking the right questions
- Rating and ranking charities
- Taking Initial Steps to Maximise Your Impact
- Managing your relationship with the charity
- Spreading the word to help your cause
- Amplifying your giving
- Doing good and doing business at the same time
- Chapter 5: Encouraging Education Around the World
- Going to the Head of the Class: Education Philanthropy
- Looking at the positive effects of an educated population
- Focusing on continuing education and worker re-education
- Supporting Educational Establishments
- Spreading literacy and knowledge via libraries
- Preserving and sharing culture: Museums
- Helping universities: Centres of excellence
- Creating Tomorrow's Leaders: Youth Groups
- Volunteering to empower girls around the world
- Increasing employment opportunities
- Spreading the Power of Education: Inspirational Stories
- Renewing urban education
- Pulling together to help an area's children
- Bridging the education gap
- Unleashing scientific minds
- Providing free education to anyone anywhere: Open-source learning
- Growing the creative class
- Playing ‘games for good’
- Going to the Head of the Class: Education Philanthropy
- Building an Active Senior Giveback Lifestyle
- Redefining retirement: Pursuing an encore career
- Volunteering your hard-earned skills
- Sharing your experiences and stories
- Creating Support Communities
- Building a tribe: Help for carers
- Encouraging a spirit of trust between the generations
- Activating all the generations of your community
- Helping the Elderly
- Volunteering at elder care communities
- Being supportive of elders
- Feeding your elders
- Sharing your pets with your elders
- Getting Started in Children's Charities
- Creating Play Spaces for Children
- Finding your project
- Examining two inspirational projects
- Supporting Children through Education
- Getting involved at the grassroots level
- Supporting early childhood development
- Encouraging teenagers to stay in further education
- Promoting Nurturing Environments and Safe Havens
- Tackling poor nutrition
- Offering a wealth of experiences
- Addressing safety and care issues
- Looking into Healthcare and Carers
- Recognising the challenges that carers face
- Finding ways to support carers
- Providing opportunities to socialise and network
- Offering training opportunities
- Increasing Access to Healthcare in Developed Countries
- Supporting speciality clinics in the UK
- Improving access to UK health clinics
- Promoting Health in the Poorest Regions of the World
- Beating the scourge of malaria
- Tackling tuberculosis
- Putting the focus on prevention
- Addressing the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth
- Getting healthcare to isolated communities
- Contributing towards a Variety of Other Healthcare Causes
- Providing aid to people suffering from paralysis
- Promoting organ donation to save lives
- Helping out hospitals and doctors
- Endowing research projects
- Raising awareness campaigns
- Using Technology to Improve Health
- Exploring online ways to improve health
- Preventing tomorrow's health problems
- Going Green: Finding Inspiration and a Focus
- Taking small steps to generate big effects
- Teaming up to do good
- Coming Clean on Sanitation
- Finding out the faecal facts
- Playing your part
- Water, Water Everywhere . . . But Is It Fit to Drink?
- Ensuring safe drinking water
- Helping water conservation efforts
- Working to protect the world's oceans
- Protecting the Planet's Animals
- Saving animal habitats
- Rescuing animals in your home community
- Greening Your Community
- Combating pollution
- Reducing carbon emissions
- Creating a community garden
- Understanding Venture Philanthropy
- Looking at the benefits
- Understanding why venture philanthropy matters
- Examining different models
- Finding venture philanthropy organisations to support
- Planning your investment
- Providing Healthy, Nutritious Food
- Joining needs and solutions together
- Building awareness around healthy eating
- Creating all-natural brands
- Harnessing Technology with Mobile Mania
- Using intermediaries
- Communicating with micro-entrepreneur networks
- Making micro-marketplaces with mobile money
- Tying Your Interests to Venture Philanthropy
- Transforming fashion into philanthropic passion
- Searching out natural, healthy, and sustainable beauty ingredients
- Being thrifty is hip
- Seeking sustainable packaging options
- Thinking about Technology's Role in Philanthropy
- Providing the Most Basic Needs with Technology
- Housing the world's most vulnerable populations
- Disaster relief: Helping during crises
- Competing for Good in the Virtual World
- Tapping into the allure of games
- Looking closely at how games motivate players
- Challenging gamers to tackle real-world problems
- Tackling mega challenges with mega prizes: The XPRIZE story
- Collaborating for a Better Tomorrow: Crowdfunding
- Putting the crowd to work
- Finding a crowdfund project to support
- Starting your own campaign
- GiveForward: Raising funds to cover medical bills
- Kick starting a new mission: Kickstarter
- CrowdRise: Tapping into the power of a fanbase
- Calling All Experts
- Social entrepreneurs: Making change happen
- Supplying social ventures and charities with IT
- Chapter 12: Donating Your Time to Help Out Others
- Considering Time-Giving Ideas
- Providing Housing for People in Need
- Exercising your muscle power to build homes
- Selecting a reputable organisation
- Taking necessary precautions
- Rethinking Hunger and Health
- Combating hunger in your hometown: Working at a soup kitchen
- Feeding new parents
- Tackling hunger through community gardens and local farms
- Preparing Your Own Care
- Offering Medical Help to the Urban Poor
- Contributing Your Time to Being a Great Citizen of the World
- Taking a gap year to help, learn, and share
- Inspiring and guiding children
- Working at Good Works: Considerations when Donating Your Talents
- Bringing in the Bankers and Accountants: Providing Financial Services
- Helping people escape poverty through access to financial tools
- Volunteering in the financial services industry
- Summoning All Lawyers: Helping Out the Little Guys
- Lending your legal expertise
- Building your pro bono legal practice
- Calling All Creative Types: Moving People to Take Action
- Sharing great untold stories
- Creating public awareness
- Donating your intellectual property
- Making music festivals with a mission
- Transmitting Your Tech Talent
- Joining a hackathon
- Supporting a small charity's IT systems
- Contributing to an open-source platform
- Sharing your knowledge freely: Wikis
- Donating Money and Assets: A Few Things to Know
- Making a Big Difference with Small Treasure
- Devising an effective donation strategy
- Thinking about giving as a daily budget item
- Mobilising your network to give
- Going Big: Big Treasure, Big Responsibility
- No Treasure? No Problem: Seeing How You Can Still Give
- Creating a Multiplier Effect
- Looking into matching programmes
- Encouraging your company to engage in do-good partnerships
- Using skilled workers in developing countries: Samasource
- Recognising the True Cost of Your Purchases
- Reading the labels
- Thinking about the product in a larger sense
- Checking out the company
- Buying into Awareness Campaigns
- Supporting campaigns you believe in
- Viewing an example of a successful anti-slavery campaign: The Somaly Mam Foundation
- Being a savvy consumer-philanthropist
- Creating your own awareness campaign
- Travelling with a Heart: Where to Go and Where to Stay
- Exploring culture: Visiting eco-friendly cities
- Taking the LEED: Eco-friendly lodgings
- Checking out other tips for the caring traveller
- Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
- Introducing the idea of smart transport
- Picking a mode of transport that reduces your carbon footprint
- Zipcar: Car-sharing programmes
- Pedalling power
- Lowering your carbon footprint by how you shop
- Helping the Planet One Meal at a Time: Food Shopping
- Taking a closer look at your food items and how they're grown
- Choosing where to shop
- Deciding what to buy
- Recovering food deserts
- Keeping the Shirt on your Back: Shopping for Clothes
- Paying attention to issues that matter: Going organic
- Understanding what the labels mean in the fashion world
- Understanding Socially Responsible Investing
- Caring about returns – financial and otherwise
- Bringing business sense to social problems
- Screening for Socially Responsible Companies
- Investing in the ‘good’ or avoiding the ‘bad’: Types of screening
- Paying attention to the triple bottom line
- Looking into a company's decision-making
- Determining whether your vision and the company's practices are in sync
- Taking a More Active Role: Impact Investing
- Identifying the areas you want to impact
- Establishing your impact-investment criteria
- Choosing where your money goes
- Evaluating your investment impact
- Doing Good while Doing Well
- Integrating impact investing into your financial life
- Matching philanthropic purpose and profits
- Preparing to Give: Financial Planning
- Understanding the tax implications of charitable giving
- Determining which accounts to give from
- Pounds and pence: Working the numbers to keep your donations flowing
- Discovering donor-advised funds
- Getting Up to Speed on Legal Stuff
- Following the rules when claiming tax relief for charitable giving
- Donating physical items
- Sending donations overseas
- Using overseas bank accounts
- Helping overseas charities directly
- Watching out for scams
- Tackling solicitation
- Creating Checklists before Writing the Cheque
- Examining What Happens After You Give
- Following the money
- Monitoring your contributions
- Evaluating the results
- Chapter 18: Ten Compelling Reasons to Give
- Sharing is the Right Thing to Do
- Giving Makes You Feel Good
- Empowering Yourself to Make Change
- Building Friendships and Family
- Strengthening Your Community
- Taking On the Biggest Challenges
- Building Bridges between Cultures
- Improving the Planet for the Next Generation
- Unleashing Inspiration
- Creating Goodwill among Nations
- Chapter 19: Ten Ideas for Telling Your Philanthropic Story
- Defining Your Mission
- Building Your Basic Storyline
- Sharing Your Story through Word of Mouth
- Tapping into the Power of Social Media
- Writing Articles for Traditional Publishing Channels
- Writing a Book or Making a Film
- Engaging in Guerrilla Marketing
- Hiring a Professional Publicist
- Throwing a Fundraiser
- Vetting Your Story with Family and Friends
- Chapter 20: Ten Great Ways to Start Giving… Today
- Making the Commitment to Give
- Donating Online
- Supporting a Local Shelter or Food Bank
- Volunteering to Help Feed the Poor
- Signing up for a Charity Walk, Run, or Cycle
- Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling Right Now
- Supporting a Friend's Social Venture
- Joining Your Employer's Volunteer Programme
- Initiating Your Own Social Venture
- Stopping Making Excuses and Taking Action
- Karl T. Muth
- John W. Kluge
- Michael Lindenmayer
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