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Turning Wealth Into What Matters
A generous donor wants to contribute a valuable non-cash asset to your nonprofit. You want to say "YES." However, you worry that you'll make a mistake and look foolish in front of the donor and your organization. I get it. Non-cash gifts can feel intimidating and even a bit scary. Throughout my career as a gift planner, I've facilitated hundreds of non-cash gifts and have taught hundreds of people to do it too. This book will help to eliminate the fears you have when it comes to non-cash gifts. It will provide you with: Fundamental knowledge of each asset type. A step-by-step process you can use with virtually every non-cash gift. Proven internal procedures you can begin using right away. Detailed intake checklists so you can be sure to collect all the right information. And it will help you: Exceed your fundraising goals year after year! Take your career to the next level! Open up a world of new possibilities for donors, your organization, and YOU!
Hope in the Darkness
Finding the light and healing after sexual abuse is possible. Inthis book, I share my horrific experience with sexual trauma andmy journey of recovery. After my assault, I spent the first fewyears feeling angry, hopeless, fearful, victimized, and powerless.I blamed God for letting this happen to me and for the evil thatexists in the world. I blamed others for not doing anything tostop this evil.With the help of God, my family and friends, and the courageof other survivors, I began my healing journey. It was not, and isnot, easy, and it includes relapses of anger, hopelessness, anddepression as I process the life-changing impact of posttraumaticstress disorder. My sexual assault experience willalways be a part of who I am. It has shaped me into the person Iam today. With the strength of God and supporters around me, Iwill continue to grow and live out God's mission for my life. Indoing this, I will continue to help others find their light, hope,and healing in the darkness.
Embracing ReMARKable
"I know there is someone else in this fire with me."~Markus, age 20Born medically complex and fragile. Feeling perfectly fine one day andthen, BAM, serious complications strike. Hostile invaders threaten.Discouragement lurks in the shadows-and once again, a war is wagedwithin Markus's own body.Intense health struggles have dominated Markus's life of twentyyears-and thus his family's as well. Together they tell their story.I have heard two statements over and over, and most days, I do nothave a clear-cut, decisive answer. "Call if you need anything," usuallyleaves me completely tongue-tied. "How can I help?" makes my mindfeel like it is immediately an empty, blank void. It is both humbling andwonderful when others want to help. We need help, lots of help, morethan I will ever admit.~Deb Bachman, Mom"This is a story that nobody asks to be in, but it's a story of strengthand faith against incredible odds, and it's full of heroes."~Larry Bond, Author
When Do the Lions Eat?
If you have a yen to experience different cultures and an appetite for humor and adventure, this buffet of fifty-eight short stories will be a feast for you. George Heiring brings to life six decades of travel to exotic locales on and off the world map, relating wild and wacky experiences and curious encounters that will keep a smile on your face as you turn the pages. An award-winning storyteller, poet, and celebrated humorist, George transports you into the edgy, Stone Age environs of Irian Jaya, takes you trekking in foothills of the Himalayas, sends you racing downhill from the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, and scales a thousand-foot sand dune in Namibia. Along the way, you will meet those with lifestyles far different from your own-a Paris bargeman, a Maasai warrior, a Red Army Colonel, a Seychellois mercenary, a Balinese woodcarver-all sharing unique tales that give their culture its shape and vitality.
The Many Faces of Down Syndrome
The Many Faces of Down Syndrome, Stories of Inspiration, Hope, and Laughter is a collection of stories from families caring for people with Down syndrome. Having had some of the same experiences as many of the contributors of the book of course made me identify with the stories, but it was more than that. I felt connected with them as a parent, as a caregiver, and more simply as a human. This book will help and inspire so many more than the people I originally intended it to reach. Whether you have a person with Down syndrome in your life or not, this book will enhance your understanding and deepen your empathy for families who are blessed to have someone with Down syndrome in their midst. Follow these 15 amazing people with Down syndrome on their life journey. From a year old to sixty the families share their stories of inspiration, hope, and laughter.
Find Your Buried Treasure
Essays were originally published in the Chanhassen Villager and are being reprinted with permission of the Chanhassen Villager.
Starless Midnight
A young woman's terrorizing return to her hometown As a teenager, Jadey Evans' family fled their small town to escape the kind of haunting that only a dysfunctional family would recognize. Returning 14 years later, she anticipated some face-to-face combat with old ghosts, but had no idea of the real terror that awaited. Her bi-racial heritage had been a kind of novelty to her young friends more than a decade ago, but now she is alarmed to discover that former neighbors of color had been quietly disappearing. Would she be next? Had the racial discord always been there, but covered with phony smiles and carefully chosen words? Her own discovery of a murder victim close to home begins a race to crush a white supremacist terror plot while saving her own life. Is there anyone in Twin Station she can trust?
Remembering the Ride
"Vernon was twenty-one, handsome, kind, fun-loving and Christian, and he was stealing my heart." Thus began a love story that would evolve over the next twenty-three years through the blessing of five children and the sadness of living with a tragic, hereditary disease. That disease would continue to impact our family for more than fifty years. This story is a personal one. It is a story of deep sorrow mingled with the joy that comes from family, love, commitment, and faith. A heartbreaking story of love and loss in the struggle with the inherited disease, ataxia. This author bares her heart as she tells the story of losing her husband and two sons while striving, through the years to overco...
Nancy Means Grace
My sister, Nancy, had a wonderful sense of humor that disappeared in the early stages of her schizophrenia. I am grateful that it returned, or maybe, the truth is, I began to see it again. Sprinkled throughout the book are short snippets of her humor that totally surprised me and often delighted us both. This book is dedicated to her spirit. It is dedicated to anyone who is determined not to be defeated by life's challenges.
Dearest Anna
"Before my grandmother, there was Anna." So begins the true story of a family secret, a trunkful of hidden letters, and a love story buried away for almost a century. In 1894 Roy and Anna graduated from high school and begin writing hundreds of love letters to each other until 1898, when Anna died, suddenly and tragically. Roy was devastated. Even after he married, he grieved every year on the anniversary of Anna's death. The letters lay hidden for decades, until his granddaughter brought them out of the shadows. Who was Anna - the woman Roy loved so deeply that he mourned her even after his 63-year marriage to someone else? This is Anna and Roy's story - a snapshot in time in the waning days of the Gilded Age; a love story for the ages. In Anna's words: "We will write as often as we must, for we are never going to be tired of each other, if we live a thousand years."
