Love Giving Well: The Pilgrimage of Philanthropy - download pdf or read online

Mark Petersen has discovered philanthropy within the technique of best a personal grantmaking starting place. it's been a pilgrimage with mountaintops and valleys, high-impact offers and dead-end failures. He parallels a private account of a actual pilgrimage at the Camino de Santiago along his philanthropic trip to create a feeling of momentum and intentional stream towards a shared vacation spot. all the thirty-five chapters leads with a brief magazine access from the author's month-long pilgrimage alongside the Camino del Norte and Camino Primitivo in Spain.  
 
Mark makes use of compelling tales to vulnerably stocks fifteen years' worthy of mess ups in addition to successes in his trip of philanthropy. alongside this trip he built sensible steps for reviewing furnish functions and attaining pursuits for philanthropy. He advances the values of transparency, mutuality, and taking part with others to accomplish universal goals.
 
The imaginative and prescient of philanthropy espoused not just contains charitable impression yet indicates the giver will be reworked within the method. The ebook deals a window into how humans of religion fight with giving, humanizes the mystique of a philanthropist, and offers grantmakers with tangible instruments of their efforts to be either clever and faithful.

"Love Giving Well is the compelling tale of a reflective guy major a starting place to ascertain the results of how it helps Christian ministries. Petersen provides us with an inspiring imaginative and prescient for charitable giving that relatively makes a distinction. Fundraisers will methods to technique foundations extra successfully and person donors will how to shift from transactional to transformational giving." 
--John Pellowe, Chief government Officer, Canadian Council of Christian Charities
 
"I can suggest ratings of books instructing the mechanics of philanthropy and an analogous quantity for people that are inspirational. What distinguishes Love Giving Well is Mark's being an artisan and craftsman of philanthropy. via years of either perform and concept he has taught me and others how you can method philanthropy as an paintings to be valued and discovered for the enjoyment of excellence. In different phrases, this ebook captures either the prose and the poetry of giving."
--Fred Smith, President, The Gathering

"St. Paul tells the early Christians: 'It is extra blessed to provide than to receive.' used to be this a educating they held expensive? Mark Petersen means that Christians of every age should still. How should still Christians take into consideration their giving as necessary to their discipleship? Mark has inspiration via those questions with admirable rigor and reminds us that our giving aren't purely be beneficiant, yet efficient and potent, for which he offers functional suggestion born of expertise. To paraphrase St. Augustine: 'Take and give!'"
--Raymond J. de Souza, Senior Fellow, Cardus; Editor-in-Chief, Convivium

Mark Petersen (BA, MDiv) is the CEO of enhanced Philanthropy, a Toronto enterprise created to serve significant donors with administrative providers and as a granting hub for high-impact charitable tasks. he's the second one new release of a number one Canadian faith-based origin, which over fifteen years led to 2,500 provides totaling $38 million. Mark additionally hosts the Stronger Philanthropy Podcast within which he interviews grantmakers and grantseekers approximately giving well.