Generosity Begins Next Door
Much Needed Gifts For Friends and Neighbors Who are Facing
Financial Crisis
An e-booklet
by Andrea
Reynolds (Read about the author at page bottom),
$5.95
Should
we send money to charities when our own neighbors need our
help? Or should our kindness and generosity begin next
door?
If your friends or neighbors are facing financial
hardship
they may not tell you how bad it is. You may think they are
doing fine because they put on a brave front. When you do
find out, and you want to help, but you may not know what
to offer, or how to offer without offending. Here is a
checklist of practical gift ideas that actual people who
were homeless, or were about to be, asked us to relay to
you.
You can even provide a copy of the booklet to someone you
know and
ask them to check off the boxes next to all the items they
would love to receive.... much like a bridal
registry. Then find ways to honor the requests. You'll be
astonished to see how basic the requests
are.
Lists specific ideas for what to give and what NOT to
give. Many of the charitable
gifts *we* think are good, really are NOT.
Two respondents
received notices from friends that a financial donation had
been made in their name to a food bank or soup kitchen....
when the recipients had no food! That donation would have
been better spent on groceries for them.
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO
HELP PEOPLE, ORDER THIS BOOKLET. YOU'LL BE HELPING IN TWO
WAYS:
1. You'll have a better grasp of what reality is like for
people in financial crisis.
2. You'll make a connection - heart to heart - with a real
person who needs your help... not some nameless, faceless
entity to which you write a check.
Contents
• How to recognize that
someone you know may be on the brink of destitution... and
in need of your help.
• What you need to
understand about poverty.
• What you must avoid
giving that will only insult or offend.
• Gift items appreciated
by adults
• Gift items
appreciated by kids
• Acts of generosity you
can perform
• Services appreciated by
families
• Services
appreciated by single adults
• Tips to make your gift
giving truly shame/guilt-free for the
recipient.
How
you can utilize this booklet:
Booklets may be imprinted (minimum order is 1,000 for
custom imprinting) or labeled with your organization's
name, address, phone number and web site
address.
Demonstrate
your gratitude for the abundance in your life by sharing
with others in your life or neighborhood not so fortunate:
1.
In lieu of Holiday Greeting cards, distribute
Charity Begins Next Door booklets among your
employees, customers, clients and suppliers to encourage
their generosity to their impoverished neighbors.
2.
Use them as a
fund raiser in your congregation to
distribute to those neighbors in need. The proceeds you
collect from selling the
Charity Begins Next Door booklets can be used to
purchase gifts to fill those requests indicated.
3.
In lieu of your company's annual office Christmas
party,
distribute
Charity Begins Next Door booklets to a shelter,
mission, fire station, armed forces, low income
neighborhood, prison... with the intention of fulfilling
the wish lists created by the checked off boxes in the
booklets. Supply your gifts before
the holidays.
Charity
Begins Next Door:
Much Needed Gifts For Anyone Facing Financial
Crisis, E-Booklet:
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About the author
Andrea Reynolds knows what it's like to be flat broke and alone. In 1998 she closed down and walked away from her thriving Author's Bed and Breakfast in Toronto when police informed her that the landlord who had been terrorizing her after a home invasion was dangerous and she needed to "disappear".
She fled to the United States. Alone in what felt like a "foreign" country, and suffering from "shell-shock" she regained her physical health over several years and began to recreate her life. No longer able to travel or appear in public, she lost the two ways she'd attracted clients: appearing as a guest expert on national TV and by speaking professionally. She started rebuilding her marketing consulting firm from the bottom, and re-established a speaker agency that she had dismantled 7 years before.
Unsinkable, she currently writes, publishes and sells booklets containing her unconventional -- and some say brilliant -- tips and plans to launch her syndicated crisis advice newspaper column in December 2008.
Ironically, Andrea had previously spent 18 months immersed in full-time research on a book on the "invisible homeless". She gained the confidence of countless men and women and teens who, despite being homeless, were somehow able to avoid sleeping on park benches. Their personal accounts suggested the gift ideas in this booklet.
Please tell Andrea the name of your newspaper, city and state/province and she will send the editor an article about Charity Begins Next Door: Much Needed Gifts For Anyone Facing Financial Crisis for publication. crisiswriter@gmail.com
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