Do Your Giving While You Are Living: Inspirational Lessons on What You Can Do Today to Make a Difference Tomorrow [Hardcover]

Edie Fraser (Author), Robyn Freedman Spizman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2009

Do Your Giving While You Are Living is an illuminating little book with a very big--and very timely--message. It inspires readers to embrace giving and to understand that the highest purpose in life is quite simple: doing for others. Featuring contributions from some of the most influential and philanthropic people and organizations in the world today, this book shows readers how the act of giving can change the world and also change their own lives in ways they never thought possible.

Do Your Giving While You Are Living offers food for thought in bite-sized bits. Each entry includes a quote, a brief first-person story of how one of the book's contributors--from leading-edge thinkers to hometown heroes--made a difference, and an action step readers can put to use in their lives. The vignettes are as moving as they are enlightening, teaching readers the power of giving and demonstrating specific ways how that power can be put into action, no matter what age or station in life.

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About the Author

Edie Fraser is an internationally acclaimed executive, champion, and advocate for diversity and women and philanthropy. Based in Washington, D.C., she is managing partner and diversity chair of the largest woman-owned executive search firm, Diversified Search Ray & Berndtson. As an entrepreneur, Edie built the Public Affairs Group, and founded Diversity Best Practices (DBP). She has published numerous books and publications, given hundreds of speeches, and designed the CEO Diversity Leadership program.

Robyn Freedman Spizman is an award-winning author and a nationally known media personality and consumer advocate. She has appeared for the past two decades on television and radio, and is considered a leading product-and-gift expert. To learn more about her go to www.robynsipizman.com. Robyn lives with her husband in Atlanta, Georgia, and they have two children, Justin and Ali. "Secret Agent" is her middle-grade fiction debut.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 289 pages
• Publisher: Morgan James Publishing (January 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1600374530
• ISBN-13: 978-1600374531
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,311,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Blueprint for Giving!, November 24, 2008

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Tom Tuohy (Chicago, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Do Your Giving While You Are Living: Inspirational Lessons on What You Can Do Today to Make a Difference Tomorrow (Paperback)

We live in the most challenging time in history. This is also the greatest opportunity in modern times. In our universal suffering we are all now related. As we look towards the future we can create a world of compassion and generosity. Edie and Robin have shown us the way. Do Your Giving While Your Living is a blueprint for giving. This astounding book is a guide for finding the solutions to the many local and global issues we face.

Each chapter of Do Your Giving While Your Living provides an example of an organization or individual who is making a difference. I am honored and humbled to be featured in this book as the founder of Dreams for Kids. While reading of so many who have done so much, I am filled with hope.

Please, commit to reading one chapter per week of this timely and important book. Apply the suggestions at the end of the chapter. Join this movement of giving - and together we will change the world!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read it and Reap, November 19, 2008

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This review is from: Do Your Giving While You Are Living: Inspirational Lessons on What You Can Do Today to Make a Difference Tomorrow (Paperback)

Want to read inspirational stories on how to live a life that matters?

Buy a copy of this book for you, your friends and employees. One way to counteract troubled times is to focus on all that's right with the world -- and one way to do that is to read about these individuals and organizations who are committed to serving those less fortunate.

As author Maurice Sendak says, "There must be more to life than having everything." The dozens of contributors to this book -- including top executives from AARP, Make-A-Wish Foundation, American Red Cross and Dreams for Kids -- prove that.

You'll be moved to tears -- and moved to action -- after reading about these extraordinary people who are, as contributor Casey Golden says, "making a difference, one small act at a time."

Most importantly, you'll be motivated to figure out how YOU can give while you live so that everyone benefits, including you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truth, Beauty and Goodness in Action, January 17, 2009

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Larry Mullins "Larry Mullins" (St. Augustine, Florida) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Do Your Giving While You Are Living: Inspirational Lessons on What You Can Do Today to Make a Difference Tomorrow (Paperback)

Perhaps Mother Teresa said it best: "We cannot do great things. We can only do ordinary things with great love." Edie Fraser and Robyn Spizman have produced a vivid testimony of people and organizations who are devoted to loving service through "ordinary" acts. Yet the ordinary becomes much more in these pages. In Spizman's words: "When we inspire goodness we create greatness." Anyone who picks up this book will never again say: "What can I do?" Every community is brimming with challenges, and as Frances Hesselbein has observed: much as the clergy, we are all called.