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Author: Bill Clinton
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: ***** (5 Stars)
Summary
Since leaving the White House in 2001, Bill Clinton has been involved with a number of charitable endeavors, many of which are profiled in Giving. He describes needs that exist, and the people and organizations that are working to meet them, all the while maintaining a positive, upbeat tone.
Everyone has different ways they can contribute. Some people are in a position to donate money while others share their time. Some organizations exist to pair “social entrepreneurs,” people who have good ideas but need funding, with people who want to donate money to a cause they can believe in. Clinton discusses all of these and more, organizing his book with chapters that focus on gifts of time, money, goods, skills, and gifts of “reconciliation and new beginnings.” He goes on to discuss “model gifts,” programs that have proven effective everywhere they have been tried, and can be “replicated with predictable positive results;” roles of government; and ways that markets and non-profits can be organized for greater benefit.
