Charity Begins Next Door: Much Needed Gifts For Anyone Facing Financial Crisis

A booklet by Andrea Reynolds (Read about the author at page bottom) $5.95
 
Why do we send money to charities when our own neighbors need our help? Shouldn't our kindness and generosity begin next door?

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HELP PEOPLE, ORDER THIS BOOKLET. YOU'LL BE HELPING IN THREE WAYS:

1. All income from this booklet - except for PayPal transaction fees - goes to the Reynolds Foundation to assist people in crisis.

2. You'll have a better grasp of what reality is like for people in financial crisis.

3. 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.

If your friends or neighbors are facing financial hardship they may not tell you how bad it is. You want to help, but don't know what 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.

Charity Begins Next Door 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.

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.
 
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 Booklet: $US 5.95 single copies (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 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 3 years and began to recreate her life. Unable to find work, she started rebuilding her marketing consulting firm from the bottom, and re-established a speaker agency that she dismantled 7 years before. 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.

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.

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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