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• 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 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
• Chapter 3: Figuring Out How and What You Can Give
• 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
• Chapter 4: Discovering and Implementing Your Philanthropic Passion
• 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
• Part II: Knowing Where Your Money Goes: Which Sector Is For You?
• 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’
• Chapter 6: Surfing the Age Tidal Wave: Helping the Elderly
• 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
• Chapter 7: Nur  turing the Planet’s Children
• 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
• Chapter 8: Getting Healthy Together: Philanthropy and Healthcare
• 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
• Chapter 9: Becoming Eco: Protecting the Planet
• 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
• Chapter 10: Venturing into Venture Philanthropy
• 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
• Chapter 11: Solving Problems through Innovation and Technology
• 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
• Part III: Delivering on Your Good Intentions: Practical Ways to Get Involved
• 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
• Chapter 13: Making Use of Your Specific Talents
• 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
• Chapter 14: Sharing Your Treasure
• 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
• Chapter 15: Making an Impact with Your Transactions
• 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
• Chapter 16: Investing Financially in a Brighter Tomorrow
• 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
• Chapter 17: Getting Strategic in Your Giving and Philanthropy
• 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
• Part IV: The Part of Tens
• 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
• Appendix: Where We’re Donating Our Resources and Why
• Karl T. Muth
• John W. Kluge
• Michael Lindenmayer
• About the Authors
• Cheat Sheet
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