Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
by Bill Clinton

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
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Author: Bill Clinton
Edition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-09-04
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Knopf

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Book Review: GIVING motivated me to want to do more not only for my Asheville community, but also for this country and the rest of the world.
Summary: 5 Stars

I was inspired by GIVING--written and read by Bill Clinton . . . it's a
call for action about how each of us can change the world.

You will learn little about his presidency in this book . . . rather, you
will learn what Clinton has spent his life doing since leaving
the White House . . . as he writes:

* Politics is a getting business--[getting votes, support, contributions,
etc.]. To balance the sales [he has devoted his post-presidency to
giving]. . . . After I narrowly escaped what could have been a fatal
heart attack in 2004, I felt that way even more strongly.

He then presents accounts of what companies have done, but I was
most moved by the stories of such individuals as the following:

* Oseola McCarty, a retired cleaning lady in Mississippi, who gave
her life savings to the University of Southern Mississippi for a scholarship
for poor African-Americans;

* Paul Farmer, who grew up living in a trailer park, a boat and even
a tent but eventually graduated from Harvard Medical School and
went on to devote his life to fighting AIDS and tuberculosis in
destitute places around the world; and

* McKensize Steiner, a six-year old California girl who organized and
supervised drives to clean-up the beach in her community.

GIVING motivated me to want to do more not only for my Asheville
community, but also for this country and the rest of the world . . . you'll
feel the same way, too, if you read this book.

Summary of Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations?and by individuals?to solve problems and save lives both ?down the street and around the world.? Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, ?regardless of income, available time, age, and skills,? can do to help, to give people a chance to live out their dreams.

Bill Clinton shares his own experiences and those of other givers, representing a global flood tide of nongovernmental, nonprofit activity. These remarkable stories demonstrate that gifts of time, skills, things, and ideas are as important and effective as contributions of money. From Bill and Melinda Gates to a six-year-old California girl named McKenzie Steiner, who organized and supervised drives to clean up the beach in her community, Clinton introduces us to both well-known and unknown heroes of giving. Among them:

Dr. Paul Farmer, who grew up living in the family bus in a trailer park, vowed to devote his life to giving high-quality medical care to the poor and has built innovative public health-care clinics first in Haiti and then in Rwanda;
a New York couple, in Africa for a wedding, who visited several schools in Zimbabwe and were appalled by the absence of textbooks and school supplies. They founded their own organization to gather and ship materials to thirty-five schools. After three years, the percentage of seventh-graders who pass reading tests increased from 5 percent to 60 percent;'
Oseola McCarty, who after seventy-five years of eking out a living by washing and ironing, gave $150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi to endow a scholarship fund for African-American students;
Andre Agassi, who has created a college preparatory academy in the Las Vegas neighborhood with the city?s highest percentage of at-risk kids. ?Tennis was a stepping-stone for me,? says Agassi. ?Changing a child?s life is what I always wanted to do?;
Heifer International, which gave twelve goats to a Ugandan village. Within a year, Beatrice Biira?s mother had earned enough money selling goat?s milk to pay Beatrice?s school fees and eventually to send all her children to school?and, as required, to pass on a baby goat to another family, thus multiplying the impact of the gift.

Clinton writes about men and women who traded in their corporate careers, and the fulfillment they now experience through giving. He writes about energy-efficient practices, about progressive companies going green, about promoting fair wages and decent working conditions around the world. He shows us how one of the most important ways of giving can be an effort to change, improve, or protect a government policy. He outlines what we as individuals can do, the steps we can take, how much we should consider giving, and why our giving is so important.

Bill Clinton?s own actions in his post-presidential years have had an enormous impact on the lives of millions. Through his foundation and his work in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, he has become an international spokesperson and model for the power of giving.

?We all have the capacity to do great things,? President Clinton says. ?My hope is that the people and stories in this book will lift spirits, touch hearts, and demonstrate that citizen activism and service can be a powerful agent of change in the world.?

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