The Generosity Plan ; Sharing Your Time, Treasure, and Talent to Shape the World

xxxii, 240 pages. Inscribed by the author to Cokie Roberts. Inscription reads: Cokie--Here's to you and your leadership! Kathy LeMay. Includes Acknowledgments, Introduction, Appendix, Notes, and Resources to Get You Started. Kathy LeMay is the founder, president and CEO of Raising Change, which helps organizations raise capital to advance social change agendas and individuals with social action planning worldwide. Kathy, who began her activism in war-torn Yugoslavia where she worked with women survivors, has raised more than $100 million in the fields of women's human rights, hunger and poverty relief, HIV/AIDS, and movement-building. Kathy has provided social-change fundraising and generosity training to hundreds of organizations throughout the world, as well as being a prolific public speaker on strategies that advance the movement for justice and empower women to come into their own voices. This smart, practical guide to philanthropy illuminates the power of giving by helping readers to discover what inspires them, clarify what he or she can afford to give, and direct that generosity toward a better world. Many of us have the desire to make a difference. But when it comes down to it, how many really know what steps to take and how to fit philanthropy into our lives. The Generosity Plan shows readers the unexpected benefits and joys of generosity in our daily lives. This smart, practical guide to philanthropy illuminates the power of giving by helping readers to discover what inspires them, clarify what he or she can afford to give, and direct that generosity toward a better world. Contributing time or money to causes far removed from the immediacy of our individual lives may feel overwhelming, especially in times of financial stress and uncertainty. Author Kathy LeMay breaks through these initial roadblocks to give easy and valuable tools to spur definite and rewarding action, demonstrating how our time, treasure, and talents can make a world of difference. By building and acting on a generosity plan, each one of us can create change simply by doing what we can, where we are, with what we have.