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Giving with Confidence

A Guide to Savvy Philanthropy

By: Colburn Wilbur,Fred Setterberg

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Giving with Confidence

A Guide to Savvy Philanthropy

By: Colburn Wilbur,Fred Setterberg

“The pitfalls, potential, and the ins and outs of charitable giving . . . a must-read for all nonprofit leaders, donors, and students.”—Marjorie Schwarzer, award-winning author of Riches, Rivals, and Radicals There are thousands of books that tell you how to get money, but few that cover something just as challenging: how to give money away. Giving with Confidence provides thoughtful guidance culled from decades of experience in the philanthropy world. Whether you are an individual who donates to your favorite charity or the head of a small to medium-sized foundation, the gentle practicalities of this book will enable you to manage your giving with effectiveness and personal satisfaction. By following its seven core principles, you will have what you need for “improving the reach, scope, and impact” of your contributions. “Reveals the secret sauce of philanthropy with humor, wisdom, and plain good storytelling. This book is a gift for anyone who has considered giving.”—Ralph Lewin, president and CEO of Cal Humanities “There is a ton of advice for the wealthiest givers, but none for those of us who give more than $5,000 but less than $75,000 per year. Here in a non-dogmatic style are some approaches and guidelines to make donors feel more effective. Thank you, Cole and Fred.”—Jan Masaoka, CEO of the California Association of Nonprofits “[An] outstanding guide to creative and effective grantmaking, this time for the individual philanthropist.”—Dawn Hawk, program officer for the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation “Part up-to-date behind-the-scenes guide, part how-to, this potent little book distills the wisdom of a life’s work in philanthropy by one of our best thinkers and most devoted practitioners.”—Marilyn Bancel, author of Preparing Your Capital Campaign

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1597142204

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9781597142205

The Roads Taken

Travels Through America's Literary Landscapes

By: Fred Setterberg

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The Roads Taken

Travels Through America's Literary Landscapes

By: Fred Setterberg

The Roads Taken is a big-hearted book, a thoughtful and wryly affectionate rendering of our national character as revealed to Fred Setterberg in his extensive readings and wanderings. At once a travelogue and memoir, a literary history and extended nature piece, The Roads Taken reconnects Americans to each other and to the land they live and work in - and often forsake. From Henry David Thoreau's Maine Woods to Jack London's San Francisco Bay, from Ernest Hemingway's Upper Peninsula to Zora Neale Hurston's French Quarter, Setterberg pilots readers across the well-traveled pages of our national literature and the well-read contours of the American landscape. He acquaints us anew with the books and ideas that, time after time, have pried us from our self-centered moorings and set us into physical and metaphysical motion. The Roads Taken begins, fittingly, with a discussion between Setterberg and his nineteen-year-old vagabond cousin, Wally, about Jack Kerouac, invoking the Beat writer's spirit as they swap stories about hitchhiking and one-night stands, Setterberg praises Kerouac as perhaps the best of our "bad influence" writers - an author whose stories make people quit their jobs and give away their possessions, whose books are among the first to be banned or burned while formulaic and forgettable best-sellers look on with impunity. Spurred on by Wally (whose next stop is Alaska), Setterberg takes to the road. In chapters inspired by and devoted to particular writers and locales, he visits Red Cloud, Nebraska, a prairie hamlet virtually unknown except as Willa Cather's hometown, and tours across Texas, a state known for all the wrong things until Larry McMurtry distilled a century ofdimestore cowboy novels into his pure and beautiful literature of loneliness. He travels to Nevada, where the budding fabulist Mark Twain honed his truth-stretching skills as a reporter for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and to New Orleans, where Zora Neale Hurston immersed herself in the voodoo rituals she later alluded to in her study of black folklore, Mules and Men. Exiting the paved roads, Setterberg searches for the solace that Nick Adams, Hemingway's internally scarred World War I veteran, might have found in the forests along Lake Superior. He also trails Thoreau deep into the mountains of central Maine for just one glimpse of the adroitly evasive moose. Setterberg's meandering narrative is fertile in unexpected associations, personal memories, and historical asides; redolent with vegetation, hot coffee, and automobile exhaust; and clamorous with strains of soul and country music, laughter, and argument. In its hints at the racism and apathy in this country, and its images of our adulterated skies and waterways, the book is also disturbing. Its accumulated details only suggest the natural and cultural treasures that Setterberg fears we could lose to the "blanding" of America - the rampaging, wide-scale forces of sameness that seem intent on smoothing out our rough edges and disarming the crankiness that characterizes our country at its most local levels. Caught up in Setterberg's Whitmanesque longing to roam widely and embrace whatever comes his way, readers will skip their lunches, unplug their televisions, and let their lawns grow shaggy while they finish The Roads Taken. Then, turning to a friend, or perhaps the stranger who read the book over their shoulder on acrosstown bus ride, they will delight in passing it on.

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180

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Interlink Publishing Group

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1566561833

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9781566561839

LifeWriting

Drawing from Personal Experience to Create Features You Can Publish

By: Fred D. White

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LifeWriting

Drawing from Personal Experience to Create Features You Can Publish

By: Fred D. White

Life writing is people-centered nonfiction writing. Not just autobiographical or biographical, life writing encompasses a broad range of personal-experience narratives. Life writing can be serious or humorous or both. It can include any kind of subject matter because people are always at the heart of any endeavor. Fred D. White, Ph.D., author of four textbooks on writing, walks the reader through the life writing process from research to composition to revision to marketing.

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246

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Quill Driver Books

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1884956335

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9781884956331

Lunch Bucket Paradise

A True-life Novel

By: Fred Setterberg

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Lunch Bucket Paradise

A True-life Novel

By: Fred Setterberg

Fictional portrait of a not well-understood era rolling into the 60s. Set in San Leandro, California, a working-class suburb of Oakland, not San Francisco, it creates feel of an era authentically

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Heyday Books

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1597141666

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The Roads Taken

Travels Through America's Literary Landscapes

By: Fred Setterberg

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Travels Through America's Literary Landscapes

By: Fred Setterberg

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Interlink Publishing Group

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1566561833

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Sam Maloof

36 Views of a Master Woodworker

By: Fred Setterberg

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Sam Maloof

36 Views of a Master Woodworker

By: Fred Setterberg

One of the great masters of midcentury modernism in furniture Maloof pieces are in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other prominent museums

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Heyday Books

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1597143332

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Giving with Confidence

A Guide to Savvy Philanthropy

By: Colburn Wilbur,Fred Setterberg

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A Guide to Savvy Philanthropy

By: Colburn Wilbur,Fred Setterberg

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Toxic Nation

That Fight to Save Our Communities from Chemical Contamination

By: Fred Setterberg,Lonny Shavelson

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Toxic Nation

That Fight to Save Our Communities from Chemical Contamination

By: Fred Setterberg,Lonny Shavelson

Includes personal accounts of ordinary people fighting the frightening spread of toxic contamination. Each year, 22 billion pds. of toxic chemicals are spewed into our air, water, and soil. The book describes the devastating effects of these chemicals on the lives of people in dozens of communities across America. People who have managed to fight back, by any means they can, to save their families and their communities. Deals with how our nation contends with its most fundamental problems. It is about the people who have faced the health effects of haz. wastes head-on, and the democratic uprising engendered by that confrontation. Illustrated.

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0788194372

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9780788194375

Fred Rogers: The Last Interview

and Other Conversations

By: Fred Rogers

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Fred Rogers: The Last Interview

and Other Conversations

By: Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers's gentle spirit and passion for children's television takes center stage in this collection of interviews spanning his nearly forty-year career Nearly twenty years after his death, Fred Rogers remains a source of comfort and fond memories for generations who grew up watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Over the course of his career, Rogers revolutionized children's television and changed the way experts thought about the educational power of media. But perhaps his most lasting legacy was demonstrating the power of simply being nice to other people. In this collection of interviews, including his fiery (for him) 1969 senate testimony that saved PBS and his final interview with Diane Rehm, Rogers's gentle spirit and compassionate approach to life continues to be an inspiration. An introduction by David Bianculli provides brilliantly contextualizes the interviews and offers a contemporary reading of Rogers's storied career.

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Melville House

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1612198961

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9781612198965

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The Roads Taken

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Lunch Bucket Paradise

Lunch Bucket Paradise

The Roads Taken

The Roads Taken

Sam Maloof

Sam Maloof

Giving with Confidence

Giving with Confidence

Toxic Nation

Toxic Nation

Fred Rogers: The Last Interview

Fred Rogers: The Last Interview

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