Philanthropy category: 319 books
Andrew Carnegie
Little Boss
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1922) was a mass of contradictions: a radical Chartist who became a rabid capitalist, an idealist who was also a profound cynic, a committed pacifist who also played a crucial role in the opening part of the American Civil War, and a ladies’ man who had to wait until his...
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”
Published originally as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” this is not so much a work of sober political analysis; rather it can be summed up as a rhapsodic manifesto...
Summary & Analysis of Winners Take All
The Elite Charade of Changing the World | A Guide to the Book by Anand Giridharadas
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
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Columnist and political analyst Anand Giridharadas exposes the deep secrets of how a few wealthy individuals...
by Iqbal Wahhab
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In the wake of recent scandals concerning charities such as Kids Company and BeatBullying, as well as the wave of suspicion they have generated about the third sector as a whole, celebrated restaurateur Iqbal Wahhab offers a scathing critique of the cosiness between government and charity, and proposes...
The moral marketplace
How mission-driven millennials and social entrepreneurs are changing our world
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Enter the world of the social entrepreneur. A global community of doers, thinkers and leaders who mix business with grass-roots activism to make social change possible. Vinod Kapur created a new breed of chicken that feeds some of the world’s poorest villagers. Betty Makoni empowers young women...
How to Be an Everyday Philanthropist
330 Ways to Make a Difference in Your Home, Community, and World–at No Cost!
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Want to help make your community, your town—your world—a better place, but don’t know where to begin? How To Be An Everyday Philanthropist shows you the way. A handbook, a resource guide, a call to action, and an inspiration, it offers 330 concrete, direct ideas for making a difference—all...
Golden Donors
A New Anatomy of the Great Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The world of the golden donors - the rich and influential philanthropic foundations - is quite likely the least known and yet most pervasive of all the invisible money and power networks in America. Nielsen explores the 36 largest of the 22,000 currently active foundations. He takes the reader inside...
From Prophecy to Charity
How to Help the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Helping the poor is a question central to American life. Partially driven by America's Judeo-Christian heritage, Americans believe we possess enough wealth to provide some minimum basic standard of living for all and genuinely desire to help the least among us. We are the most generous nation on earth,...
How to Grow Rich by Giving
Why Philanthropy will Multiply Your Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Have you ever wondered why Bill Gates has pledged 95% and Warren Buffet 99% of their wealth away to charity?
Have you also wondered why Bill Gates continues to be one of the richest men in the world after having donated over $38 billion to his charitable foundation? His wealth continues to...
A Fraught Embrace
The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The complex relationships between altruists, beneficiaries, and brokers in the global effort to fight AIDS in Africa
In the wake of the AIDS pandemic, legions of organizations and compassionate individuals descended on Africa from faraway places to offer their help and save lives. A Fraught...
by Devin Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Your Mark On The World combines inspiring stories of ordinary people doing remarkable things to make the world a better place with practical advice to empower you to give more to a cause (charity, non-profit or social venture) without giving up a career or family.
Inspiring Stories Include:
Botevy's...
The Logic of Charity
Great Expectations in Hard Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
What is charity? How does it operate, who does it benefit and what should we expect it to do? This important book helps to tackle the most common misunderstandings and misconceptions of charitable activity in contemporary British society, especially insofar as these affect the thinking of politicians...
Wishman
Kindness, Close Calls and the Magic of Making Wishes Come True
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The story drops into Frank's sad and difficult childhood - a childhood that was not his, but the byproduct of his mother’s whims. Constantly on the move and frequently hungry and homeless, doing without was the norm. Along his journey, glimmers of kindness from strangers were extended from communities...
A Good Investment?
Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Select students and teachers worked the room at a fundraising event for a New York City public high school Amy Brown calls College Preparatory Academy. It was their job to convince wealthy attendants that College Prep, with its largely minority and disadvantaged student body and its unusually high rate...