Turning Wealth Into What Matters

A generous donor wants to contribute a valuable non-cash asset to your nonprofit. You want to say "YES." However, you worry that you'll make a mistake and look foolish in front of the donor and your organization. I get it. Non-cash gifts can feel intimidating and even a bit scary. Throughout my career as a gift planner, I've facilitated hundreds of non-cash gifts and have taught hundreds of people to do it too. This book will help to eliminate the fears you have when it comes to non-cash gifts. It will provide you with: Fundamental knowledge of each asset type. A step-by-step process you can use with virtually every non-cash gift. Proven internal procedures you can begin using right away. Detailed intake checklists so you can be sure to collect all the right information. And it will help you: Exceed your fundraising goals year after year! Take your career to the next level! Open up a world of new possibilities for donors, your organization, and YOU!

The history of human waste. How I learned to love the excrement; The early history of human excreta; Treasure nigh soil as if it were gold!; The water closet dilemma and the sewage farm paradigm; Germs, fertilizer, and the poop police -- The present: a sludge revolution in progress. The great sewage time bomb and the redistribution of nutrients on the planet; Loowatt, a loo that turns waste into watts; The crap that cooks your dinner and container-based sanitation; HomeBiogas : your personal digester in a box; Made in New York; Lystek, the home of sewage smoothies; How DC water makes biosolids BLOOM; From biosolids to biofuels -- The future of medicine and other things; Poop : the best (and cheapest medicine; Looking where the sun doesn't shine; From the kindness of one's gut : an insider look into stool banks -- Afterword : breathing poetry into poop.

NEW LARGE PRINT EDITION. LEARN HOW TO CREATE MULTIPLE STREAMS OF INCOME & IMPACT. TURN YOUR WORDS INTO WEALTH.DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL AUTHORS & ENTREPRENEURS. Grow your income and influence using these 7 proven blueprints. Model the success of icons such as Sir Richard Branson, JK Rowling, Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, Brandon Sanderson, Jordan Peterson, Wayne Dyer, David Goggins, and Sir Winston Churchill.YOU WILL LEARN:Why storytelling is a key leadership skill7 ways to profit from publishing your bookHow to create multiple streams of incomeThe art of public speakingWhy your book is your best marketing toolHow to communicate your ideas and pitch anythingThe neuroscience behind memorable messagesHow you could create your book by talking (rather than typing)Hi, I'm Aurora Winter and I left my lucrative career as a TV executive decades ago to become a full-time author, trainer, and entrepreneur. Using storytelling for business, I created a life of freedom, creativity, and contribution. I help my clients turn their words into wealth, wisdom, and wonder. Now I would like to help you.My clients win hearts and minds with their communication skills. They have started new chapters, escaped 9 to 5, and made a difference. They have written bestselling books, given TEDx talks, appeared on TV, raised venture capital, and won awards. Why not you?Use the blueprints in this book to create multiple streams of income and impact with your book, brand, and business.

This study reveals how our monetary system reinforces scarcity, and how communities are already using new paradigms to foster sustainable prosperity. In the United States and across Europe, our economies are stuck in an agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. Yet solutions already exist, not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. These changes came about not through increased conventional taxation, enlightened self-interest, or government programs, but by people simply rethinking the concept of money. In Rethinking Money, Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne explore the origins of our current monetary system—built on bank debt and scarcity—revealing how its limitations give rise to so many serious problems. The authors then present stories of ordinary people and communities using new money, working in cooperation with national currencies, to strengthen local economies, create work, beautify cities, provide education, and more. These real-world examples are just the tip of the iceberg—over four thousand cooperative currencies are already in existence. The book provides remedies for challenges faced by governments, businesses, nonprofits, local communities, and even banks. It demystifies a complex and critically important topic and offers meaningful solutions that will do far more than restore prosperity—it will provide the framework for an era of sustainable abundance.

This is not a book about one thing. It's not a 250-page dissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it's an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes, relentless change and ferocious competition. This is not a book about doing better. It's not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins. Instead, it's an impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it—to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, organizational life, and the meaning of work. Leaders today confront a world where the unprecedented is the norm. Wherever one looks, one sees the exceptional and the extraordinary: Business newspapers decrying the state of capitalism. Once-innovative companies struggling to save off senescence. Next gen employees shunning blue chips for social start-ups. Corporate miscreants getting pilloried in the blogosphere. Entry barriers tumbling in what were once oligopolistic strongholds. Hundred year-old business models being rendered irrelevant overnight. Newbie organizations crowdsourcing their most creative work. National governments lurching towards bankruptcy. Investors angrily confronting greedy CEOs and complacent boards. Newly omnipotent customers eagerly wielding their power. Social media dramatically transforming the way human beings connect, learn and collaborate. Obviously, there are lots of things that matter now. But in a world of fractured certainties and battered trust, some things matter more than others. While the challenges facing organizations are limitless; leadership bandwidth isn't. That's why you have to be clear about what really matters now. What are the fundamental, make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead? Hamel identifies five issues are that are paramount: values, innovation, adaptability, passion and ideology. In doing so he presents an essential agenda for leaders everywhere who are eager to... move from defense to offense reverse the tide of commoditization defeat bureaucracy astonish their customers foster extraordinary contribution capture the moral high ground outrun change build a company that's truly fit for the future Concise and to the point, the book will inspire you to rethink your business, your company and how you lead.

Turning Passions Into Profits provides specific techniques forrapidly closing the gap between where you are today and where you'dlike to be tomorrow. In this book, Christopher Howard teachespowerful, innovative tools for modeling and replicating theultimate success of some of the world's greatest leaders andbillionaires. With the ability to select and incorporate some ofthe traits, strategies, thought patterns, and behaviors of thosealready achieving results, individuals can plot a course and arriveat a chosen destination quicker than they ever thought possible. Itprovides concrete tools and strategies to fully understand thegoverning principles outstanding achievers use to realize theirvision. In addition, Turning Passions Into Profits supplies exercises toapply these communication and leadership tools to master theseskills-ultimately gaining career, financial, and personal success.

If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of spending. Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money. When it comes to spending that money, most people just follow their intuitions. But scientific research shows that those intuitions are often wrong. Happy Money explains why you can get more happiness for your money by following five principles, from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. And the five principles can be used not only by individuals but by companies seeking to create happier employees and provide “happier products” to their customers. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton show how companies from Google to Pepsi to Crate & Barrel have put these ideas into action. Along the way, the authors describe new research that reveals that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models, that commercials can actually enhance the enjoyment of watching television, and that residents of many cities frequently miss out on inexpensive pleasures in their hometowns. By the end of this book, readers will ask themselves one simple question whenever they reach for their wallets: Am I getting the biggest happiness bang for my buck?

This painstaking study of the New Testament helps bring clarity to one of the great ethical dilemmas of the modern church--the moral status of wealth and possessions in relation to Christian faith.

For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. Widely acknowledging Phillips as one of the nation's most perceptive thinkers, reviewers have called him a latter-day Nostradamus and our "modern Thomas Paine." Now, in the first major book of its kind since the 1930s, he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, a sweeping cavalcade from the American Revolution to what he calls "the Second Gilded Age" at the turn of the twenty-first century. The Second Gilded Age has been staggering enough in its concentration of wealth to dwarf the original Gilded Age a hundred years earlier. However, the tech crash and then the horrible events of September 11, 2001, pointed out that great riches are as vulnerable as they have ever been. In Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips charts the ongoing American saga of great wealth–how it has been accumulated, its shifting sources, and its ups and downs over more than two centuries. He explores how the rich and politically powerful have frequently worked together to create or perpetuate privilege, often at the expense of the national interest and usually at the expense of the middle and lower classes. With intriguing chapters on history and bold analysis of present-day America, Phillips illuminates the dangerous politics that go with excessive concentration of wealth. Profiling wealthy Americans–from Astor to Carnegie and Rockefeller to contemporary wealth holders–Phillips provides fascinating details about the peculiarly American ways of becoming and staying a multimillionaire. He exposes the subtle corruption spawned by a money culture and financial power, evident in economic philosophy, tax favoritism, and selective bailouts in the name of free enterprise, economic stimulus, and national security. Finally, Wealth and Democracy turns to the history of Britain and other leading world economic powers to examine the symptoms that signaled their declines–speculative finance, mounting international debt, record wealth, income polarization, and disgruntled politics–signs that we recognize in America at the start of the twenty-first century. In a time of national crisis, Phillips worries that the growing parallels suggest the tide may already be turning for us all.

Lee Brower's book The Brower Quadrant ends with the chapter "The Essence of the Brower Quadrant", which focuses briefly on gratitude, leadership, legacy, and leverage. This book is a sequel to The Brower Quadrant; beginning wherethe book leaves off, building upon and synthesizing these main concepts into what we refer to as "The Empowered Wealth Mindset". The Empowered Wealth Mindset, a powerful way to think about the future, is the focal point of "The Next Step".Empowered Wealth has built its coaching and financial services practice around the needs and aspirations of successful, fully engaged entrepreneurs who love their families and want to make a positive difference in the world. Why entrepreneurs? In a world of political impasses, massive debt and economic issues, ideological and cultural clashes, terrorism, and any number of other uncertainties and challenges, it's entrepreneurs such as yourself who take responsibility for their own futures and seize opportunities amidst adversity. By empoweringentrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, and their families, we believe that we are contributing to a better future for others. It's this entrepreneurial spirit that's fundamental to the work of Empowered Wealth.But there's much more to Empowered Wealth and The Empowered Wealth Mindset. We begin with Gratitude. Chapter 9 of The Brower Quadrant "Gratitude Rocks" describes how gratitude has become a major part of Empowered Wealth. Beginning in Gratitude virtually assures a shift in thinking about wealth.What is wealth? Is it just measured in terms of money and financial assets? Or are there assets you value more than money? Chapter 8 of The Brower Quadrant "Creating Clarity" explores what true wealth really means to you individually. TheEmpowered Wealth Clarity Process has been utilized in numerous business, family, and personal situations in many countries over the years. It's a process that we suggest you revisit at least annually to renew your focus on what's essential amongst all of your competing interests. The Next Step will be about focusing on the essential rather than the very important matters inyour life.What is your legacy? Notice that we didn't ask "What will your legacy be?" That's because a powerful element of The Empowered Wealth Mindset is the concept of "Living Legacy"; making the world better today for those who will follow. This is an important element in The Next Step.Leadership is virtually unavoidable for a successful entrepreneur. Much has been and will continue to be written on the topic of Leadership. Our premise with The Next Step is that a deep sense of Gratitude, filtering reality through the lens of "True Wealth" and Living Legacy will inspire Leadership.That in turn will drive congruent Leverage. Why "congruent" leverage and not just leverage? We believe that without gratitude, a strong base of true wealth, and a sense of living legacy, "leverage" becomes not a means for making the world a better place for those who follow but perhaps a destructive mechanism (for example, did the Hitler use leverage? Did Osama bin Laden use leverage?).Family Leadership and Congruent Leverage are vital to The Next Step. They are part of what we call "The Empowered Wealth Mindset". This mindset is a focal point of our coaching program "The Business Family Coach(tm)".