Where Am I Giving: A Global Adventure Exploring How to Use Your Gifts and Talents to Make a Difference
Gebonden Engels 2018 9781119448129Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
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<p>Chapter 1: Life After College (Nepal, 2001)<br />The mission / The responsibility of privilege / The Good Person Equation</p>
<p>Chapter 2: One Night in a Slum Showed Me How Poor I Was (Kenya, 2010)<br />Why should we care when we have our own problems? / My problem with missionaries / Giving thoughts and prayers</p>
<p>Chapter 3: We Aren t the Heroes (Kenya, 2010)<br />Toxic charity / Fair trade travel</p>
<p>Chapter 4: Confessions of a Volunteer Addict (Muncie, 2010)<br />Benefits of volunteering / 100–hour rule / Make where you live interesting</p>
<p>Chapter 5: What Can One Person Do? (Cambodia, 2017)<br />Leaving Hollywood for a dump in Cambodia / The White Savior Industrial Complex</p>
<p>Chapter 6: Happiness Isn t Having a Lot; It s Giving a Lot (Cambodia, 2017)<br />The Hero s journey / What The Matrix teaches us about happiness and purpose / Four pillars of meaning</p>
<p>Chapter 7: Giving Is Complicated: Ethnic Cleansing in the Most Generous Nation on Earth (Myanmar, 2017)<br />Change starts with students / Problem with empathy / World Giving Index / Problem with orphanages</p>
<p>Chapter 8: Seeing Differently to Make a Difference (Myanmar, 2017)<br />A not–so–noble Nobel Peace Prize winner / Problem with karma / Intent matters</p>
<p>Chapter 9: Giving on Purpose (Myanmar, 2017)<br />Giving alms / Meditating on giving</p>
<p>Chapter 10: The Gift of Tasting Ice Cream (Myanmar, 2017)<br />A former monk on giving / Solitude / Thoreau s three chairs</p>
<p><br />Part II: What Can I Give?</p>
<p>Chapter 11: Science of Do–gooding (Kenya, 2017)<br />Effective altruism / The cost to save a life / Should you give your kidney? / Extreme givers</p>
<p>Chapter 12: Money for Nothing (Kenya, 2017)<br />Universal basic income / Proximity to need / The poor are better givers</p>
<p>Chapter 13: No Justice, No Peace (Kenya, 2017)<br />Election chaos / Freedom versus aid / Legacy of colonialism / Human rights / Maslow s Hierarchy of Needs</p>
<p>Chapter 14: Giving Is Immeasurable: Change One, Change 100 (Kenya, 2017)<br />Waging peace on warriors / Stepping–stones in the river of life / Education as a path out of poverty / Help one, help 100</p>
<p><br />Part III: Start Local</p>
<p>Chapter 15: Growing Up Gandhi (India, 2017)<br />Mandated giving / The Mother Teresa controversy / Gandhi on giving</p>
<p>Chapter 16: Start with Your Local (India, 2017)<br />Crossing caste lines / Towers and slums / Untouchables</p>
<p>Chapter 17: Start Small (India, 2017)<br />Locals challenging societal norms / Creating leaders / The girl effect</p>
<p><br />Part IV: The Gift of Travel</p>
<p>Chapter 18: Should You Go on a Slum Tour? (India, 2017)<br />Poverty porn? / History of slumming it / Impact of slum tours</p>
<p>Chapter 19: Joy in a Hopeless Place (Kenya, 2017)<br />Safari Doctors / Following the locals lead / Go make a difference / Investing in people</p>
<p>Chapter 20: See Yourself in the Lives of Others (Kenya, 2017)<br />It s a wonderful life? / Our struggles connect us / Wisdom of traditional societies</p>
<p>Chapter 21: Travel If You Can It s Fatal to Prejudice (Kenya, 2017)<br />How travel makes you a better human / Travel creates philanthropists / Responsible tourism / Reverse culture shock</p>
<p><br />Part V: Is Helping Helping?</p>
<p>Chapter 22: The Kiva Controversy (Cambodia, 2017)<br />The problem with microlending / Meeting Kiva borrowers / Giving fads</p>
<p>Chapter 23: Sponsor a Child, Save the World? (Zambia, 2017)<br />The realities of child sponsorship / Stories versus stats / Psychic numbing / Aid and dependency</p>
<p>Chapter 24: Marine Wages War on Poverty Through Locally Led Change (Kenya, 2010)<br />Fighting terrorism by fighting poverty / Starting with the end in mind</p>
<p>Chapter 25: The Little Village That Was Supposed to Change the World (Kenya, 2017)<br />UN s Millennium Development Goals / Can unlimited resources end poverty? / Do we need more or less aid?</p>
<p><br />Part VI: Our Gifts Connect Us to the World</p>
<p>Chapter 26: The Strength in Your Story (USA, 2012 2018)<br />Listening is an act of love / The gift of your story</p>
<p>Chapter 27: The X Factor in the Good Person Equation<br /><br />Acknowledgments<br /><br />About the Author</p>
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Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan