Inspiring stories and beautifully typeset quotations about generosity.
Since 2009 she has had her own consulting company that helps nonprofit organizations transform their board leade.
She then served as Vice President of Bennington College and of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.
In New York she held leadership positions in three of the city\'s distinguished museums.
About the Author: After starting her professional life as an art historian, Barbara Bonner has devoted her career to nonprofit management, fundraising and philanthropy.
Martin Luther King, Jr., John Steinbeck, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, Seneca, Albert Schweitzer, Anne Frank, and many others.
Sprinkled throughout these stories are writings and quotes from Shakespeare, Hafiz, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Wendell Berry, Sharon Olds, Naomi Shibab Nye, Donald Justice, Winston Churchill, Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou, Gandhi, Dr.
It includes fourteen contemporary stories of "Generosity heroes" whose lives have been transformed by the power of generosity.
Inspiring Generosity is an invitation to savor a sampling of the very best inspirations on the subject of generosity.
That is one of generosity\'s most wonderful qualities: it is utterly contagious.
If one life is more generous, we all prosper.
It will kindle a spark in readers\' hearts that moves them into the sunshine of a more generous life.
This book will help readers open their hearts to the power of their own innate generosity, their desire to make a difference in the world, to help make someone\'s day a little brighter or their world a bit more secure.
For many, that moment is enough for Generosity to move into their hearts and minds and become central to their lives.
A gesture, a news story, a quotation in a book, a passing remark can change everything.
The desire to act generously arrives like an uninvited guest, unexpectedly, like a lightning bolt, in a mere moment.
WARNING: This book might change your life.
Inspiring stories and beautifully typeset quotations about generosity
