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

1. Introduction
2. Chapter 1
3. Chapter 2
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 6
6. Chapter 7
7. Chapter 8
8. Chapter 10
9. Chapter 11
10. Chapter 12
11. Chapter 13
12. Chapter 14
13. Chapter 15
14. Chapter 16
15. Chapter 17
16. Chapter 19
17. Chapter 20
18. Chapter 21
19. Chapter 22
20. Chapter 23
21. Chapter 24
22. Chapter 26

Kelsey Timmerman has been where very few donors go, and has seen the positive impact of the highly effective giving I advocate, as well as the negative impact of less desirable forms of giving. Where Am I Giving? offers thought-provoking and often entertaining insights into the importance of thinking carefully about where we give.

Peter Singer, professor of bioethics, Princeton University, and founder of The Life You Can Save

Charity should never be motivated by pity because that causes dependency. Charity must always be the result of compassion leading to constructive action making the recipient independent and productive member of society. Where Am I Giving? is a good guide to constructive giving. A must read for all charity-minded people.

Arun Gandhi, founder-president, Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, Rochester, NY

Kelsey Timmerman has written a compassionate and compelling book about the people who run the international charities many of us donate to. To do so, he visited these organizations in person, spanning the globe, and bringing to the fore the realities that shape the daily lives of both the helpers and those being helped. Along the way, he intersperses his own advice as to what charity shouldand shouldn'tmean for his readers. An inspirational book that's also a fascinating travelogue, it deserves a wide audience. We'll all be better off if our friends and neighbors read this.

Pauline Frommer, publisher, Frommer Guidebooks

I loved this book. Kelsey has managed to write an exciting adventure of a how-to book on giving, volunteering, and generally making the world a better place through his own thrilling and heart-wrenching tales. Kelsey has done it all and lived it all. Where Am I Giving? is hugely entertaining while offering practical, real lessons and guidelines that he has lived. He has seen success and failure and shares where we can be most effective. Kelsey shows us where we can offer our time and resources, large and small, to impact the planet. He takes us along on his adventures to meet the people, learn about the causes, and show us the long-term victories and failures so we don't have to make the same mistakes. It's the most entertaining how-to book I've ever read, and few books are more timely.

Conor Grennan, founder of Next Generation Nepal (NGN) and author of Little Princes

Traveling with Kelsey Timmerman in the pages of Where Am I Giving? will inspire you to do the most good you can do.

Will MacAskill, president of the Centre for Effective Altruism and author of Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back

KELSEY TIMMERMAN

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Names: Timmerman, Kelsey, 1979- author.

Title: Where am I giving? : a global adventure exploring how to use your gifts and talents to make a difference / Kelsey Timmerman.

Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2018]

Identifiers: LCCN 2018019679 (print) | LCCN 2018021118 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119454236 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781119454410 (ePub) | ISBN 9781119448129 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Humanitarianism. | Voluntarism. | Charities. | Social action.

Classification: LCC BJ1475.3 (ebook) | LCC BJ1475.3 .T56 2018 (print) | DDC 201/.76dc23

LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2018019679

Cover Design and Images: Rule 29 Creative

To Annie, Harper, and Griffin,

who give me so much,

including more reasons to give

One of the most beautiful sights I've seen is an 11-year-old girl laughing in the worst place I've ever been.

She haunts me to this day.

Smoke and stench fire and brimstone surrounded her as she threw her head back, shoulders shaking. Her eyes closed to the hellscape of Phnom Penh's municipal dump. She had been sifting through previously picked-through trash looking for something of value. Treasure or trash? Discard or keep?

She and the other children earned a dollar per day, if they were lucky, by selling their findings while their parents picked through fresh trash brought by a parade of garbage trucks. Most of the trash pickers were former farmers.