Where Am I Giving, Kelsey Timmerman
Where Am I Giving, Kelsey Timmerman
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Where Am I Giving
A Global Adventure Exploring How to Use Your Gifts and Talents to Make a Difference

Author: Kelsey Timmerman

Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright

Unabridged: 9 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 01/25/2019


Synopsis

Your gifts connect you to a world of giving

Americans are generous with their pocketbooks, but trying to make a difference and actually making a difference are two different things. Where Am I Giving? by New York Times bestselling author Kelsey Timmerman takes you on a journey to meet people who will inspire you to live a purpose-filled, generous life and make the greatest impact you can through your career, time, consumer dollars, and donations.

Starting in his hometown of Muncie, Indiana, and then traveling all over the world (Myanmar, Kenya, India, Nepal, and more), Kelsey explores not only different ways of giving—as a worker, consumer, volunteer, giver, local and global citizen—but also the benefits and effectiveness of these methods. He spends time with monks, students, a refugee, a Marine, a former Hollywood executive, Peace Corps Volunteers, and seasoned aid workers to explore how they give, as well as with the people on the receiving end of their giving. Along the way he struggles to be a more informed giver as he becomes a "voluntourist,” starts his own local non-profit, and searches for a balance between rationality and passion in how he gives.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lloyd on October 08, 2020

Great book! Heartbreaking, uplifting and thought-provoking.......more

Goodreads review by Clifford on February 19, 2019

I am familiar with Kelsey Timmerman's previous books and was looking forward to this one. I wasn't disappointed. The book attempts to examine global giving patterns and impacts and to draw personal lessons from them, creating a list of "Giving Rules," such as: Do something, but not just anything; an......more

Goodreads review by Katy on September 13, 2023

Powerful......more

Goodreads review by Zak on September 14, 2018

A thoughtful, touching and refreshingly nuanced critique of (and guidebook for donating to) charitable causes.......more

Goodreads review by Kate on September 27, 2024

Didn’t really answer the question in the title, but opened my eyes to a lot of problems in the world, and the way we can go about sorting them out and helping.......more