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*Give a Little: How Your Small Donations Can Transform Our World* by Wendy Smith

Give a little, change the world. Affecting our planet and its inhabitants doesn't take as much as you might think. In How to Be an Everyday Philanthropist, Nicole Bouchard Boles offers hundreds of concrete no-cost ways to make a difference. Azim Jamal and Harvey McKinnon's The Power of Giving helps reveal each reader's unique gifts as well as the self-enrichment that comes from giving them. Wendy Smith's Give a Little shows how small donations have already made big differences in the lives of millions, and how ordinary Americans can exercise their tremendous transformational power a few dollars at a time.

03 Feb. 2010:
Roger Smith's
Mixed Blood

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Give small, make big things happen

With open hearts and open hands, we gave what we could, and a little became a lot.

Dimes destroyed polio. Five bucks can beat malaria. Give a Little: How Your Small Donations Can Transform Our World not only contains remarkable, inspiring stories of how small donations are making an extraordinary difference in the lives of millions both here in the United States and around the world, but also lays out where and how to start giving... today.

Together, ordinary Americans have far more transformational power than any government or big foundation. In 2007, giving by American individuals amounted to $229 billion - that is, 82 times the amount the Gates Foundation gave that same year. Simple, inexpensive things - a water filter, a bike, an irrigation pump, a bed net, a goat - cause a ripple effect that lifts a whole family, a town, and, astonishingly, even a nation out of poverty.

Inspired by Smith's twenty years in the nonprofit sector, Give a Little shows how easily we can dip into our pockets and, with just a few dollars, change the world.

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Hilary Mantel's
Wolf Hall

*The Anarchist* by John Smolens

03 Feb. 2010:
John Smolens'
The Anarchist

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