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Where Am I Giving: A Global Adventure Exploring How to Use Your Gifts and Talents to Make a Difference
Kelsey Timmerman (Author)
9781119448129, Wiley
Hardback, published 18 September 2018
304 pages
23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.522 kg
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: 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.
INTRODUCTION: THE TRASH PICKER, THE SLAVE, AND THE GARMENT MAKER (THE WORLD, 2001–2018) xiii PART I Why Give (When I Have Problems of My Own)? CHAPTER 1 Life After College (Nepal, 2001) CHAPTER 2 One Night in a Slum Showed Me How Poor I Was (Kenya, 2010) CHAPTER 3 We Aren’t the Heroes (Kenya, 2010) CHAPTER 4 Confessions of a Volunteer Addict (Indiana, 2010) CHAPTER 5 What Can One Person Do? (Cambodia, 2017) CHAPTER 6 Happiness Isn’t Having a Lot; It’s Giving a Lot (Cambodia, 2017) CHAPTER 7 Giving Is Complicated: Ethnic Cleansing in the Most Generous Nation on Earth (Myanmar, 2017) CHAPTER 8 Seeing Differently to Make a Difference (Myanmar, 2017) CHAPTER 9 Giving on Purpose (Myanmar, 2017) CHAPTER 10 The Gift of Tasting Ice Cream (Myanmar, 2017) PART II What Can I Give? CHAPTER 11 Science of Do-gooding (Kenya, 2017) CHAPTER 12 Money for Nothing (Kenya, 2017) CHAPTER 13 No Justice, No Peace (Kenya, 2017) CHAPTER 14 Giving Is Immeasurable: Change One, Change 100 (Kenya, 2017) PART III Start Local CHAPTER 15 Growing Up Gandhi (India, 2017) CHAPTER 16 Start with Your Local (India, 2017) CHAPTER 17 Start Small (India, 2017) PART IV The Gift of Travel CHAPTER 18 Should You Go on a Slum Tour? (India, 2017) CHAPTER 19 Joy in a Hopeless Place (Kenya, 2017) CHAPTER 20 See Yourself in the Lives of Others (Kenya, 2017) CHAPTER 21 Travel If You Can – It’s Fatal to Prejudice (Kenya, 2017) PART V Is Helping Helping? CHAPTER 22 The Kiva Controversy (Cambodia, 2017) CHAPTER 23 Sponsor a Child, Save theWorld? (Zambia, 2017) CHAPTER 24 Marine Wages War on Poverty Through Locally-Led Change (Kenya, 2010) CHAPTER 25 The Little Village That Was Supposed to Change the World (Kenya, 2017) PART VI Our Gifts Connect Us to the World CHAPTER 26 The Strength in Your Story (US, 2011–2018) CHAPTER 27 The X Factor in the Good Person Equation 271 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 275 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 279 APPENDIX A Giving Appendix 281
The mission / The responsibility of privilege 3
Why should we care when we have our own problems? / My problem with missionaries / Giving thoughts and prayers 11
Toxic charity / Fair trade travel 19
Benefits of volunteering / 100-hour rule /Make where you live interesting 25
Leaving Hollywood for a dump in Cambodia / The White Savior Industrial Complex 37
The Hero’s journey / What The Matrix teaches us about happiness and purpose / Four pillars of meaning 47
Change starts with students / Problem with empathy / World Giving Index / Problem with orphanages 63
A not-so-noble Nobel Peace Prize winner / Problem with karma / Intent matters 75
Giving alms / Meditating on giving 83
A former monk on giving / Solitude / Thoreau’s three chairs 89
Effective altruism / The cost to save a life / Should you give your kidney? / Extreme givers 99
Universal basic income / Proximity to need / The poor are better givers 115
Election chaos / Freedom versus aid / Legacy of colonialism / Human rights / Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs 123
Waging peace on warriors / Stepping-stones in the river of life / Education as a path out of poverty 137
Mandated giving / The Mother Teresa controversy / Gandhi on giving 149
Crossing caste lines / Towers and slums / Untouchables 157
Locals challenging societal norms / Creating leaders / The girl effect 169
Poverty porn? / History of “slumming it” / Impact of slum tours 177
Safari Doctors / Following the locals’ lead / Go make a difference / Investing in people 185
It’s a wonderful life? / Our struggles connect us / Wisdom of traditional societies 197
How travel makes you a better human / Travel creates philanthropists / Responsible tourism / Reverse culture shock 207
The problem with microlending / Meeting Kiva borrowers / Giving fads 221
The realities of child sponsorship / Stories versus stats / Psychic numbing / Aid and dependency 231
Fighting terrorism by fighting poverty / Starting with the end in mind 247
UN’s Millennium Development Goals / Can unlimited resources end poverty? / Do we need more or less id? 255
The art of listening / The gift of your story 265
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
