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Would Inspired Philanthropy: Your Step by Step Guide to Creating a Giving Plan and Leaving a Legacy be useful to you?
Are you:

• Considering being more thoughtful in your giving?
• Wanting to get organized in your giving so that you're less reactive and more proactive?
• Save your time by using exercise and worksheets that organize your values, prioritize your giving.
• Increase your energy by helping you focus on what matters to you and reducing donor overwhelm.
• Optimize your giving by helping you leverage with mission matches and well honed giving strategies.
• Hoping to get your family involved in giving together?
• Running a family or small foundation?
• Guiding donors to be more engaged and resourceful?
• Involving donors in new programs or expanded capacity?
• Working with donors and other nonprofits to jump start innovative strategies for social change?
• Working through the "philanthropic question" with clients?
• Collaborating with or within a large foundation?
• Educating the general public about the need and benefits of larger gifts?

If you are, we believe, Inspired Philanthropy will be useful. We wrote the book with you in mind. Full of exercises, the book offers wisdom from 30 years in philanthropy and leverages the wisdom of donor mentors and peers, and support organizations.

Table of Contents: Take a look at the abbreviated version of the Table of Contents, click here, or preview the full 3 page version with sub-chapter titles, click here.

Quotes from reviewers:

"Inspired Philanthropy has all the fuel your engine of generosity will need to assure you more purposeful, satisfying and personal giving. Tracy Gary speaks to your soul, your accountant and your lawyer. She conducts its self-discovery systematically but tenderly. Your spirit works with her and it discovers its own higher levels of both organized strategy and transforming passion for its philanthropic impulse.
Inspired Philanthropy gives students and faculty in philanthropy a unique understanding of the complexity of the gift. Advisers and donors come to feel the power to work more productively with family, staff, and non profits."
  ~   Dr. Claire Gaudiani, Clinical Professor,
      The Heyman Center on Philanthropy and Fundraising, NYU

"There is no better guide for transforming one's inner donor activist into an empowered donor leader than Tracy Gary. With a perfectly calibrated blend of heart and mind, Inspired Philanthropy offers motivating and practical strategies for integrating one's personal vision with our global community."
  ~   Jessica Chao, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

"The previous edition of Inspired Philanthropy was considered to be among the most highly used resources among over 1800 providers of donor education. We are certain with this expanded version that Tracy will continue to propel generosity and valuable tools for our sector."
  ~   Dan Siegel and Jenny Yancey, YouthGive!