Download or read book Begging for Change written by Robert Egger and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are a good person. You are one of the 84 million Americans who volunteer with a charity. You are part of a national donor pool that contributes nearly $200 billion to good causes every year. But you wonder: Why don't your efforts seem to make a difference? Fifteen years ago, Robert Egger asked himself this same question as he reluctantly climbed aboard a food service truck for a night of volunteering to help serve meals to the homeless. He wondered why there were still people waiting in line for soup in this day and age. Where were the drug counselors, the job trainers, and the support team to help these men and women get off the streets? Why were volunteers buying supplies from grocery stores when restaurants were throwing away unused fresh food every night? Why had politicians, citizens, and local businesses allowed charity to become an end in itself? Why wasn't there an efficient way to solve the problem? Robert knew there had to be a better way. In 1989, he started the D.C. Central Kitchen by collecting unused food from local restaurants, caterers, and hotels and bringing it back to a central location where hot, nutritious meals were prepared and distributed to agencies around the city. Since then, the D.C. Central Kitchen has been named one of President Bush Sr.'s Thousand Points of Light and has become one of the most respected and emulated nonprofit agencies in the world, producing and distributing more than 4,000 meals a day. Its highly successful 12-week job-training program equips former homeless transients and drug addicts with culinary and life skills to gain employment in the restaurant business. In Begging for Change, Robert Egger looks back on his experience and exposes the startling lack of logic, waste, and ineffectiveness he has encountered during his years in the nonprofit sector, and calls for reform of this $800 billion industry from the inside out. In his entertaining and inimitable way, he weaves stories from his days in music, when he encountered legends such as Sarah Vaughan, Mel Torme, and Iggy Pop, together with stories from his experiences in the hunger movement -- and recently as volunteer interim director to help clean up the beleaguered United Way National Capital Area. He asks for nonprofits to be more innovative and results-driven, for corporate and nonprofit leaders to be more focused and responsible, and for citizens who contribute their time and money to be smarter and more demanding of nonprofits and what they provide in return. Robert's appeal to common sense will resonate with readers who are tired of hearing the same nonprofit fund-raising appeals and pity-based messages. Instead of asking the "who" and "what" of giving, he leads the way in asking the "how" and "why" in order to move beyond our 19th-century concept of charity, and usher in a 21st-century model of change and reform for nonprofits. Enlightening and provocative, engaging and moving, this book is essential reading for nonprofit managers, corporate leaders, and, most of all, any citizen who has ever cared enough to give of themselves to a worthy cause.

Download or read book You Are the Fucking Shit written by Michael Hsu and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an emotional toolkit that will help you unlock your emotional power, called F.I.S.T. (Feel-Identify-Separate-True Self). To understand the F.I.S.T. process first know that "problems bring feelings in us that existed before the problem ever happened." Your first goal is to IDENTIFY your FEELINGS, which remember are never true, but you are just pulling out the weeds so they don't overtake your yard. After you SEPARATE from what does not belong to you can honor the power of your true self.

Download or read book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F ck written by Mark Manson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller Over 10 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

Download or read book Death in the City of Light written by David King and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other shadowy figures of the Parisian underworld. But while trying to solve the many mysteries of the case, Massu would unravel a plot of unspeakable deviousness. The main suspect, Dr. Marcel Petiot, was a handsome, charming physician with remarkable charisma. He was the “People’s Doctor,” known for his many acts of kindness and generosity, not least in providing free medical care for the poor. Petiot, however, would soon be charged with twenty-seven murders, though authorities suspected the total was considerably higher, perhaps even as many as 150. Petiot's trial quickly became a circus. Attempting to try all twenty-seven cases at once, the prosecution stumbled in its marathon cross-examinations, and Petiot, enjoying the spotlight, responded with astonishing ease. Soon, despite a team of prosecuting attorneys, dozens of witnesses, and over one ton of evidence, Petiot’s brilliance and wit threatened to win the day. Drawing extensively on many new sources, including the massive, classified French police file on Dr. Petiot, Death in the City of Light is a brilliant evocation of Nazi-Occupied Paris and a harrowing exploration of murder, betrayal, and evil of staggering proportions.

Download or read book The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F k written by Sarah Knight and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word-of-mouth bestseller * Published in more than 30 countries * 3 million copies sold worldwide Are you stressed out, overbooked and underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? Finding it hard working from home? Then it's time to stop giving a f**k, and care less to get more. This irreverent and practical book explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations, shame, and guilt - and give your f**ks instead to people and things that make you happy. From family dramas to having a bikini body, the simple 'NotSorry Method' for mental decluttering will help you unleash the power of not giving a f**k and will free you to spend your time, energy and money on the things that really matter. 'The anti-guru' Observer 'Absolutely blinding. Read it. Do it.' Mail on Sunday 'Genius' Cosmopolitan 'I love Knight's book even before I start reading . . . Works a charm' Sunday Times Magazine 'Life-affirming . . . The key practice she advocates is devising for yourself a "fuck budget" . . . It's a beautiful way of streamlining your psyche' Lucy Mangan, Guardian ALSO AVAILABLE FROM SARAH KNIGHT: YOU DO YOU: how to be who you are and use what you've got to get what you want AND Get Your Sh*t Together - the New York Times bestseller helping you organise the f**ks you want and need to give

Download or read book The Muthafucker How to Fuck Shit Up and Stuff A Novel written by The Muthafucker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012, the future of the once great Britain came under threat from an utter imbecile: the Prime Minister. Who would rise up from the masses to lead the people into prosperity once more? Who, amongst the many, could shake off the burden of tax after tax, two teenage daughters and an incontinent dog to fight for what is righteous and proper? Great Britain is fucked. There is only one hope. The Muthafucker is going to fuck shit up. A contemporary hero. A legend for tomorrow. One angry bitch. "You've been fucked...by the Muthafucker."

Download or read book This Is My Fucking Get This Shit Done Today Book written by D. G. America and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-30 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a fun way to warp your MORNING ROUTINE? The perfect small-format productivity tool for everyone! This is a fun planner, to do list, action guide, small notebook, and productivity journal all in one small 5.5x6.5 inch format (with glossy cover and cream paper). Use this for everything from short-term projects to long-term dreams, plans, and more.For creatives, thinkers, planners, entrepreneurs, writers, tech icons, and more -- this book is the place for those amazing lists that help us get SHIT done! This is the perfect gift from a project manager, production head, or team leader to everyone on the team... It's perfect for the solo entrepreneur or home-based business proprietor to keep everything straight -- while smiling a little each time you look at this cool 126-page book. This is a great way to organize a number of big tasks into a fun, small format list. "But I have a list on my smartphone..." NOPE. Pen and paper makes these projects real...

Download or read book Go the F k to Sleep written by Adam Mansbach and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times Bestseller: “A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep” (NPR). “Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep.” Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. Read by a host of celebrities, from Samuel L. Jackson to Jennifer Garner, this subversively funny bestselling storybook will not actually put your kids to sleep, but it will leave you laughing so hard you won’t care.

Download or read book Fuck You Fuel written by Barbie The Welder and published by Barbie the Welder. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most Irreverent Self Help Book On The Planet!Fuck You Fuel (2021) is a politically incorrect self-help book that will take you from adversity to advantage! It's time for you to get mad, get up, and get shit done! Fuck You Fuel is NOT about "not giving a fuck." It's actually the opposite! Fuck You Fuel is about giving so much of a fuck about yourself that you choose to take every negative in your life, flip it on its head, and use it for energy to accomplish your every dream, goal, and desire! Fuck You Fuel is a mental strategy, a game you will learn to play, that will allow you to shape your future and bend life to your very will! Just buy the fucking book it will change your life!

Download or read book It s Decorative Gourd Season Motherfuckers written by Colin Nissan and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate and profane love letter to fall, the best fucking season of the year. Do you get excited at the first brisk breeze of the year? Are you overcome with delight when you see piles of red leaves? Do you lose your fucking mind at a pumpkin patch? At last, the epically funny internet sensation It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers is now a visual tour-de-force, teeming with a cornucopia of perfectly paired photos and seasonal enchantments to make it really fucking sing. Whiffy candles, wicker baskets, motherfucking gourd after gourd, and people going insane they love fall so much? Check! Also included: the equally lifechanging meditation It's Rotting Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers, because all good things must end. Give it to everyone you love, or put it on your fucking coffee table next to a pile of shellacked vegetables to really tie the room together. Perfect for: For anyone who fucking loves fall, and fans of McSweeney's, Go the Fuck to Sleep, Deep Thoughts, the Onion, and the New Yorker.

Download or read book Adult Coloring Books written by Adult Coloring Books and published by Tip Top Education. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 45 whimsical high resolution, professionally printed coloring pages--an adult relaxation coloring book. *Beautiful Images--animals, flowers, and gorgeous scenes. *Delightful Drawings--ranging from EASY to VERY complex. *Incredibly Fun and Relaxing

Download or read book Decide What You Want Make A Fucking Plan Work on That Shit written by Thomas Charles Mathiassen Tcm and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspirational JournalThis paperback Notebook has college ruled paper, with 150 pages measuring at 6 x 9 inch. Whether it's for work, college, home or pleasure this hand-designed stylish journal will meet your needs. The perfect positive journal for anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit.A fantastic Journal, with high-quality paper, the perfect fit for doodles, journaling and creativity.A gorgeous, designed cover that fits perfectly into your bag. Enjoy & let all your creative juices flow.Our notebooks and journals are the perfect gift for any occasion, especially as Christmas gifts, for friends, lovers and family!!

Download or read book Jholee Kiandre 2 written by Bianca and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends to lovers to nothing at all... After TK saves Jholee’s life on what would have been a botched trip to Dubai, the pair have grown closer than what Jholee ever imagined they would. Despite everything the people around her are telling her, Jholee decides to pursue a relationship with TK, but little does she know TK is not on the same page as her. Do you believe in soul ties? TK never believed in soul ties until Jholee gets into his psyche. While TK knows his soul is tied to Jholee, he still wants to have his cake and eat it too. Between wanting Jholee, not wanting to hurt her, and having his other women at the same time, TK is going through a series of emotions having multiple women would have never brought out of him. Will TK allow the love of his life to slip through his fingers for the sake of his comfortable lifestyle, or will he change his womanizing ways to save his relationship with Jholee?

Download or read book The Big Brother Book written by Sean Cliver and published by Gingko Press. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other magazine pushed the boundaries of skateboarding and pop culture like Big Brother, the raunchiest, rowdiest magazine to come out of the 1990s. Constantly at the center of much-deserved controversy, the rag has been decried as pornography, bought and unexpectedly dropped by Larry Flynt of the Hustler empire, and credited as the genesis of the Jackass universe; it was also the champion of unknown skaters and featured some of today's biggest names in skate culture when they were just children. Now author Sean Cliver puts a bow on the publication with The Big Brother Book, a collection of covers and spreads from every issue of the notorious publication. Featuring high-quality scans of the magazine itself no production or layout files remain in existence with just enough text to explain what's going on and choice quotes from each issue, this book makes it easy as well as fun to stoop to Big Brother's level.

Download or read book His Name Is Chris written by Jon Reeves and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the follow up to My Name is Tom: Gary – Tom’s best friend; being convinced that he’s in danger, moves to Australia in order to escape his paranoia. Meanwhile, Tom has become friends with his childhood bully, Big Chris. They decide travel to visit Gary together. But it doesn’t take Chris long to drift back into the habit of bullying Tom. Until one night, where the rift between them boils over, after which, they both end up taking different paths. Until a few months later, when Chris starts to show up in Tom’s new life randomly, displaying increasingly bizarre behavior.

Download or read book 609 Pages of Horse Shit written by Scott Barry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-04 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is our binary copy stack of 609 pages of utter horse shit and what seems like an accumulation of content that is far underground and censored, not shown on Media Relations TV or Radio or even the crap CIA 8080 World Wide Wiretap...

Download or read book Figuring Shit Out written by Amy Biancolli and published by Behler Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Your life isn't over." My dad says this. "I mean, YOUR life isn't over. Beyond the kids. You'll go on living, doing things. This isn't it." I know, I assure him. I have the kids. They need me. They're my life now. "OK," he replies, then grunts—more of a brief hum. He only hums when he thinks I'm full of shit. Shockingly single. Amy Biancolli's life went off script more dramatically than most after her husband of twenty years jumped off the roof of a parking garage. Left with three children, a three-story house, and a pile of knotty psychological complications, Amy realizes the flooding dishwasher, dead car battery, rapidly growing lawn, basement sump pump, and broken doorknob aren't going to fix themselves. She also realizes that "figuring shit out" means accepting the horrors that came her way, rolling with them, slogging through them, helping others through theirs, and working her way through life with love and laughter. Amy Biancolli is an author and journalist whose column appears in the Albany Times Union. Before that, Amy served as film critic for the Houston Chronicle where her reviews, published around the country, won her the 2007 Comment and Criticism Award from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association. Biancolli is the author of House of Holy Fools: A Family Portrait in Six Cracked Parts, which earned her Albany Author of the Year. Amy lives in Albany, New York, with her three children.