Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World

by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Overview

Gold Medal Winner; Philanthropy, Charities, and Nonprofits; 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards

Giving 2.0 is the ultimate resource for anyone navigating the seemingly infinite ways one can give. The future of philanthropy is far more than just writing a check, and Giving 2.0 shows how individuals of every age and income level can harness the power of technology, collaboration, innovation, advocacy, and social entrepreneurship to take their giving to the next level and beyond.

Major gifts may dominate headlines, but the majority of giving still comes from individual households—ordinary people with extraordinary generosity. Even in 2009, at a time of deep recession, individual giving averaged almost $2,000 per household and drove 82% of the $300 billion donated that same year. Based on her vast experience as a philanthropist, academic, volunteer, and social innovator, Arrillaga-Andreessen shares the most effective techniques she herself pilots and studies and a vast portfolio of lessons learned during her lifetime of giving. Featuring dozens of stories on innovative and powerful methods of how individuals give time, money, and expertise—whether volunteering and fundraising, leveraging technology and social media, starting a giving circle, fund, foundation, or advocacy group, or aspiring to create greater social impact—Giving 2.0 shows readers how they can renew, improve, and expand their giving and reach their fullest potential.

A practical, entertaining, and inspiring call to action, Giving 2.0 is an indispensable tool for anyone passionate about creating change in our world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118119402
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/25/2011
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is founder and chairman emeritus of SV2 (Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund), president of the Marc and Laura Andreessen Foundation, and director of the Arrillaga Foundation. She is founder and chairman of Stanford PACS (Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society), and she has taught strategic philanthropy at Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2000. Laura holds an MBA, two MAs, and a BA from Stanford University and has received numerous philanthropy awards. She lives in Silicon Valley with her husband, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Giving Yourself A Donation More Valuable than Money 13

2 Connecting the Drops New Ways to Make a World of Difference 43

3 Charting A Course Smart Choices with Your Checkbook 67

4 Determining a Destination Assess Your Aspirations and Impact 101

5 Game Changers Transform the World with Shared Ideas 127

6 Something Ventured Give and Learn By Getting Together 153

7 Changing Minds A Tool on the Road to Transformation 175

8 Family Matters Gifts That Keep On Giving 201

9 In the Trenches Get Big Results from A Small Nonprofit 227

Epilogue: The Time is NOW 255

Appendix I Creating Your Giving Journal 259

Appendix II Vehicles for Giving 263

Appendix III Resources for Giving 267

Appendix IV Jargon Buster 270

Notes 286

Note of Gratitude 289

About The Author 295

Index 297