Give a Little
By Wendy Smith

PHILANTHROPY ON A BUDGET

Wendy Smith, author of GIVE A LITTLE (Hyperion; November 3, 2009; Original Trade Paperback; $14.99)

This year’s New York Times annual Giving section and the Chicago Sun-Times included interviews with Wendy Smith, author of GIVE A LITTLE: How Your Small Donations Can Transform Our World.
http://www.suntimes.com/business/currency/1878709,HOF-News-easygive12.article#

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/giving/12CIVIC.html?scp=10&sq=giving&st=cse

Using her expertise in the non-profit sector, she shares stories of how ordinary individuals continue to make a profound difference in alleviating poverty around the world and how people can still afford to make charitable donations on a tighter budget.

Did You Know?
- In 2008, everyday American citizens gave a total of $229 billion to charities.  (That’s one quarter of a trillion dollars and nearly 82 times the total amount ($2.8 billion) given by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that same year.)

- People get the same physiological response (“warm glow”) from charitable giving that you would get from sex, food, drugs, or receiving money.

This holiday season, Wendy is available to talk about how people can afford to make charitable donations on a tighter budget.