A Time to Give: Helping Others — Some reading to get you going…
Here are some great reads out now to inspire and guide you to giving back to all those things you care about.
Kenneth Cole edited the collection of essays in Awearness: Inspiring Stories about How to Make a Difference as a call to action for us all. With some many overwhelming issues – global climate change, poverty, education reform, genocide – we often feel helpless and don’t know how to help. These essays look at how we all can do good and change the world for the better through simple acts of volunteerism and activism.
Wendy Kopp dreamed up the revolutionary program Teach for America as part of her senior thesis at Princeton University. Twenty years later, the program is still going strong, bringing college graduates into needy schools. Donna Foote examines Teach for America and its educational idealism, all it’s triumphs and short-comings, in her latest book Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America.
Reynold Levy’s Yours for the Asking: An Indispensable Guide to Fundraising and Management shares how he has been able to raise money and get people involved in numerous causes. Important lessons for everyone involved in fundraising and delivered with his charm and wit – to know him is to be inspired by him.
