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The Give Back Solution: Create a Better World with Your Time, Talents, and Travel
An unprecedented surge of ordinary people are using their time, talents, and travel to make a better world. What's Your Part of the Give-Back Solution? Reaching out and supporting others brings out the best in all of us. Giving back strengthens America—but the under-appreciated secret is that it lifts us up, too. Part call-to-action, part inspiration, part practical research guide to make-a-difference opportunities, The Give-Back Solution captures the idealism and generosity sweeping our country, even in the face of serious challenges. With amazing stories of everyday volunteers having the time of their lives giving back, social change leader Susan Skog shows how you can join the groundswell of goodwill, whether you volunteer abroad or support efforts locally, and whatever your time, talents, or resources.
261 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2009
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April 20, 2011
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"Book of the Month: The Give Back Solution"
Don’t volunteer to save souls or to meet hot girls or guys in an exotic land, recommends Susan Skog in her new book The Give-Back Solution: Create a Better World with Your Time, Talents, and Travel. Instead, give back to be a fuller person and to ease a little piece of suffering. She lists the “Dos and Don’ts” of service as a framework to inspire volunteers.
“Every hour you give back,” Skog says, “will make the world a better place. And every volunteer is a peacemaker in his or her own right.”
This book is a helpful guide, offering advice on how to find the perfect volunteer match from more than 150 organizations, either by traveling or engaging at home, explanations of structural differences between organizations and agencies, checklists of the right questions to ask before you start, and suggestions for “re-entering” your world after over-seas experiences. She provides volunteers’ stories and offers tangible ideas for finding ways to contribute to a global and local community.
Skog says the Give-Back Movement is grassroots, hopeful, and connecting people from Kansas to Kenya...
Read the full article at: http://tinyurl.com/3p7a3ek
"Book of the Month: The Give Back Solution"
Don’t volunteer to save souls or to meet hot girls or guys in an exotic land, recommends Susan Skog in her new book The Give-Back Solution: Create a Better World with Your Time, Talents, and Travel. Instead, give back to be a fuller person and to ease a little piece of suffering. She lists the “Dos and Don’ts” of service as a framework to inspire volunteers.
“Every hour you give back,” Skog says, “will make the world a better place. And every volunteer is a peacemaker in his or her own right.”
This book is a helpful guide, offering advice on how to find the perfect volunteer match from more than 150 organizations, either by traveling or engaging at home, explanations of structural differences between organizations and agencies, checklists of the right questions to ask before you start, and suggestions for “re-entering” your world after over-seas experiences. She provides volunteers’ stories and offers tangible ideas for finding ways to contribute to a global and local community.
Skog says the Give-Back Movement is grassroots, hopeful, and connecting people from Kansas to Kenya...
Read the full article at: http://tinyurl.com/3p7a3ek
August 17, 2012
A practical book with references to specific volunteer opportunities. It poses questions that one should ask before traveling abroad on a service project to determine the trustworthiness of the group and to explore one's own motivations and interests.
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