Full Description
How You Can Help is a book for anyone who wants to help make the world a better place, but doesn't know how to take the first step. This is the book for anyone who's ready to get involved, to reach out to others, and to do some good. Whether you want to help make your neighborhood safer, to help local kids learn to read, to get involved with a woman's shelter, to make a donation to a national or international issue like AIDS, or to get your company to start a recycling program, How You Can Help will show you the limitless opportunities available, who to contact, and what stephs you can take to help make a difference. Directed at people of all ages, economic backgrounds, interests, and abilities, How You Can Help oulines over 60 basic principles for incorporating good works into your daily life. Equally accessible for the first-time volunteer looking for the right group to join as well as the veteran volunteer looking to found a new service organization. Each chapter contains profiles of well-known and not-so-well-known genuine do-gooders, simple suggestions on where and how to help, recommended readings, and contact information for local and national service organizations. How You Can Help provides specific advice on how to get involved for parents, neighbors, employees, consumers, investors, donors, retirees, students and alumni. This book is an indispensable resource that will give you the advice, the tools, the information, and the resources to help others.
Contents
Part 1 What Is a Genuine Do-Gooder?; Chapter 1 The Blessing and Curse of Mother Teresa; Chapter 2 The Mission; Chapter 3 Organize Thyself; Part 2 Ways You Can Help; Chapter 4 Effective Volunteering; Chapter 5 Donors Unite: You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Money; Chapter 6 Good Citizens and Watchdogs; Chapter 7 Careers That Serve Society; Part 3 Finding Nearby Windows of Opportunity; Chapter 8 Families; Chapter 9 Neighbors; Chapter 10 Employees; Chapter 11 Consumers; Chapter 12 Investors; Chapter 13 Social Organizations, a.k.a. Packs; Chapter 14 Retirees; Chapter 15 Students; Chapter 16 Alumn; Part 4 The Power to Create Change; Chapter 17 Cooperative Problem Solving; Chapter 18 Getting on the Agenda of Players; Chapter 19 Problem Solving through Existing Organizations; Chapter 20 Creating New Organizations;
