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Carregando... A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunityde Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I'm a huge fan of Kristof and WuDunn, but I found a couple of pieces missing. They acknowledge the solutions were not necessarily perfect, and everything has unintended consequences. Some suggestions were incomplete. I support high compensation for NGO leaders as a reward for high impact, PROVIDED it does not come at the price of low compensation for employees. Some of the NGOs they listed do not pay their interns, which is illegal in DC. Some also offer barely survivable wages. If an organization cannot pay an employee with an advanced degree $75,000 annually for more than 40 hours a week in the DC Metro Area, then the ED does not deserve $300,000 annually. ( ) I'm a huge fan of Kristof and WuDunn, but I found a couple of pieces missing. They acknowledge the solutions were not necessarily perfect, and everything has unintended consequences. Some suggestions were incomplete. I support high compensation for NGO leaders as a reward for high impact, PROVIDED it does not come at the price of low compensation for employees. Some of the NGOs they listed do not pay their interns, which is illegal in DC. Some also offer barely survivable wages. If an organization cannot pay an employee with an advanced degree $75,000 annually for more than 40 hours a week in the DC Metro Area, then the ED does not deserve $300,000 annually. A detailed call-to-arms on charities that lead to verifiable change in the world through $5 mosquito nets for kids in tropical zones to an East Coast bakery that hires street people and ex-cons. Not only provides success stories but chapters on the personal, non-tangible benefits in giving as well as the evolving approaches to fundraising. Makes you want to sign on to several charities and start sending the pocket-change-in-a-jar and a share of your EBay sales to help out. People are really being helped, say the authors. Join up! On my list of charities are Heifer International and Mercy She (a case history on the latter is in the book), and after reading this, I want to take another on. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML:An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroadâ??a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be. In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles faced by women and girls around the globe, and showcased individuals and instituÂtions working to address oppression and expand opportunity. A Path Appears is even more ambiÂtious in scale: nothing less than a sweeping tapÂestry of people who are making the world a better place and a guide to the ways that we can do the sameâ??whether with a donation of $5 or $5 milÂlion, with our time, by capitalizing on our skills as individuals, or by using the resources of our businesses. With scrupulous research and on-the-ground reporting, the authors assay the art and science of giving, identify successful local and global initiaÂtives, and share astonishing stories from the front lines of social progress. We see the compelling, inÂspiring truth of how real people have changed the world, upending the idea that one person canâ??t make a difference. We meet people like Dr. Gary Slutkin, who develÂoped his landmark Cure Violence program to combat inner-city conflicts in the United States by applying principles of epidemiology; Lester Strong, who left a career as a high-powered television anchor to run an organization bringing in older Americans to tuÂtor students in public schools across the country; MIT development economist Esther Duflo, whose pioneering studies of aid effectiveness have revealed new truths about, among other things, the power of hope; and Jessica Posner and Kennedy Odede, who are transforming Kenyaâ??s most notorious slum by exÂpanding educational opportunities for girls. A Path Appears offers practical, results-driven advice on how best each of us can give and reveals the lasting benefits we gain in return. Kristof and WuDunn know better than most how many urgent challenges communities around the world face toÂday. Here they offer a timely beacon of Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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